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Doing the job right, even in Real Estates business
have I been doing what Realtors don’t do?
I dabbed for 5 years in the real estates business from 1995-2000). Although I had a PhD in Industrial/Ergonomics in engineering, I was Not able to find a job in any university or company due to my lack of resident status.
I had posted about 6 poems/songs related to Realtors and clients in my category “Poems Mine“.
While gathering the letters that I had sent to my parents I discovered a double pages on how I do business in that field. The letter is Not dated or sent to anyone specifically. I decided to post it anyway because the way I functioned in this job meant a lot to me.
“I am doing what Realtors don’t do.
Once I get a Listing, which means a seller of his property asks me to market it in order to find a buyer for his property, I try to host open houses as frequently as I can.
An open house means that anyone passing by can enters and check the property. Everyone is welcomed to see the property during a specified span of time, on weekdays or weekends.
Realtors in general refrain from scheduling open houses because they consider this task a total waste of their time, unless asked by the owner.
Realtors give all kinds of excuses and reasons why it is Not worth holding open houses.
I think Realtors are short-sighted on that account because they refuse to consider the many advantages to having an open house.
Here are a few advantages and benefits from frequent open houses:
- Sellers see that are doing your due diligence. If the house does Not sell within a specific period, they drop the price without me asking them. Usually, the sellers reduce the price below what I would have suggested. The lower the price, the quicker a property is sold. Frequent turnover is what generate profit.
- The quicker you sell, the more listing you obtain from a neighboring owner. Sellers hire Realtors who “perform”
- When I open houses, I canvass the neighborhood: I invite the neighbors to come and evaluate and compare what is being sold with their own properties.
- Eventually, a few owners had in mind to sell their properties and they call on me for an interview because they got to see and know me.
- During open houses, I use the property as my temporary office: I do my calls, mail letters to expired properties and answer my voice mails (That was before iPhone and sophisticated internet facilities). It is a very productive time from the crowded office.
- I do real estates in its most basic and essential forms: prospecting for listings and meeting buyers face to face.
- During open houses, many buyers who don’t like the property, I manage to to show them other choices on the market. I can show them any house listed for sale.
- Bottom line, open houses are my best tool to personally meet sellers and buyers
Once I have a listing, I make sure that all owners, within half a mile radius, know that I am a dedicated Realtors, who work hard and Not just Plant the Sign “For sale”
It is really Not a hard work because I do what I like to do: walk the streets, mail personalized letters, and meet people.
Many times, when I do not feel like walking, I can always read a book, write letters and poems during my open houses. I am the boss in a beautiful house.
It took me many years to rediscover the wheel of every techniques, but that is the only way to find the system that works best for me, and a system that I love applying consistently and without useless stress.
Realtors drop from the business in drove because it takes time, money and patience to make it in a competitive sphere where relatives and acquaintances play a good part in suggesting a Realtor.
I didn’t have any relative, family or support system to back me up during the harshest and hardest of years, but I knew this is a good business to become your own boss with steady income once you break in.
My clients are from everywhere, every race and every language. Being able to converse and write in 3 languages is a big advantage. Lebanese were Not my best clients for references and I soon desisted asking for their business.
Note 1: With the advent of internet technology, a sellers who is willing to show his property personally, does Not require a third party intermediary. All he does is to pst his property with all the details, pictures and videos of his property and wait to respond to calls.
Note 2: May read one of those songs https://adonis49.wordpress.com/2020/05/31/i-made-dreams-real-for-others-mine-has-to-wait/
Songs: Not meant how you want it to mean?
Posted by: adonis49 on: April 19, 2017
That song doesn’t mean what you think
By Breeanna Hare, CNN. Updated 1645 GMT (0045 HKT) April 17, 2017
Editor’s Note: The following article contains sexually explicit language.
(CNN) At this very moment, there’s a couple out there realizing that “their” song, the 2005 hit ballad “You’re Beautiful,” has nothing to do with a loving, body-positive relationship and everything to do with a stalker who’s stoned out of his mind.
“Born in the USA,” Bruce Springsteen
“Imagine,” John Lennon
“Semi-Charmed Life,” Third Eye Blind
“American Pie,” Don McLean
“Closing Time,” Semisonic
“Time of Your Life,” Green Day
“Slide,” the Goo Goo Dolls
“It Was a Good Day,” Ice Cube
“Mother and Child Reunion,” Paul Simon
“Bad Reputation,” Joan Jett
Bob Dylan’s lyrics and ballades extensively cited: Arguments and decisions in court of law
Posted by: adonis49 on: June 17, 2011
Bob Dylan’s lyrics and ballades extensively cited: Arguments and decisions in court of law
Are you familiar with Bob Dylan’s songs? Like “Chimes of Freedom”, “The Time, they are A-Changing”, “Blowin’ in the Winds”, “Subterranean Homesick Blues”,and the ballades “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll”, “Hurricane”,
Current judges in the US have been citing Bob Dylans lyrics and ballades in arguments and decisions in court of law: The judges were big fans of Dylan’s songs in the 60’s and 70’s. The judges are harvesting what impressed upon them in their youth and applying them in their verdicts in court of law.
For example, in “Chimes of Freedom” that says:
“We ducked inside the doorway, thunder crashing/
As majestic bells of bolts struck shadows in the sounds/
Seeming to be the chimes of freedom flashing/
Flashing for the warrior whose strength is not to fight/
Flashing for the refugees on the unarmed road of flight/
An’ for each and every underdog soldier in the night/
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing…
Illegal immigrants, liable for expulsion or repatriation were incarcerated for several years in prison. Dylan song during the civil rights period was a catalyst for reviewing immigrant detention cases.
The case of the boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter was reviewed in 1985 and a judge managed to cancel the condamnation in 1985 because the case was based on racism and not on reason and due process of the law.
“All of Rubin’s cards were marked in advance/
The trial was a pig-circus he never had a chance…/
A traffic officer had stopped Rubin and found cartrideges in the car that were later linked to a triple murder done by some else. These elements were supposed to be excluded from the file-case of the accusation, because the policeman had “no reasonable suspicion” and the cartradges were not receivable proofs. Consequently, traffic officers have no longer the right of stop drivers without valid traffic violation…
What is the story of “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll”? A rich young man, William Zantziger, beat to death the servant Hattie for not responding quickly to the drink he ordered. Zantzinger served only a 6-month term in prison. Equitable punishment was raised as a priority hot case in court of laws.
A judge relied on “The Times are A-Changing” in the sexual discrimination case of an employer excluding contraceptive means in the assurance-medication plan to his employees.
A judge reminisces: “I don’t recall what was Dylan’s song, but adored the imagination, the words, words we never thought of associating; and ideas that grew in your head as you listened. Suddenly, you are hearing a language talking the truth, something you were not used to hear on radio…”
Note: References to songs in court of law are many. Bob Dylan registered the highest number of citation of 186, followed by the Beatles (74), Bruce Springsteen (69), Paul Simon (59), Woody Guthrie (43), Rolling Stones (39), Grateful Dead (32), Joni Mitchell (28), REM (27) citations.