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I dont know, but I had a redfin agent the other week call me "demanding" I make time to show my listing to his client as he wasn't available.. Excellent customer service by that one
I dont know, but I had a redfin agent the other week call me "demanding" I make time to show my listing to his client as he wasn't available.. Excellent customer service by that one
I doubt this is a true story.
Traditional real estate agents hate anything that bites into their profits, so expect a lot of them to sound off in this thread.
... Just wondering. they really tout the whole salaried thing as an advantage over other agents, and it allows for better customer service.
It isn't an advantage or disadvantage. At the end of the day, someone has ethics or they don't. Whether they are an employee or independent contract doesn't matter. It is just another way of doing business.
Because real estate agents are salesman? You guys are like the mad taxi drivers that hate Uber because they're starting to cut into your take. I can't blame you though. I would be mad too if my job was being replaced with sites like Redfin and Zillow and I had no other meaningful skills to lean back on when it came time to look for another one.
It isn't an advantage or disadvantage. At the end of the day, someone has ethics or they don't. Whether they are an employee or independent contract doesn't matter. It is just another way of doing business.
You must have read my Wisdom on the FB RTB in Real Estate thread!
It was great fun.
I showed a listing from a salaried brokerage on Friday at 6:00PM.
With a confirmed appointment that indicated there would be someone there to let us in, no one was there.
Instructions to open the condo were wrong. (After a while, we figured it out and got in.)
I called the number. Left VM. I emailed the contact information. No reply yet.
That salary is meaningless in terms of competence. Execution, ethics, service, integrity are not dependent on business model, W2 or 1099.
If an agent told me they had to have a salary to be ethical or to provide service, I would say, "PLEASE, get out of real estate," and would tell them to apply at Walmart to get a weekly paycheck.
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