Thursday, May 22, 2008

Are you a Realtor Advocate?




Why do some Realtors feel it`s their duty to speak for the client,without first consulting the people who they represent?
Many times I often wonder why a Realtor would go out of their way to
"Break a deal" rather than "Make One".

Yesterday, was one of those days in which we had the displeasure of dealing with a Realtor Advocate who tired and tired to squash a simple Rental.

We have a client who is an attorney relocating from Orlando.
They wanted to make sure the home which they were interested in had a few provisions.
One of those provisions were "The Landlord was current in their mortgage payments".
Very simple if you`re a landlord to agree to sign,yet the Realtor Advocate didn`t want to add that into the lease.
After going back and forth for the entire day, the Realtor Advocate finally agreed to let the prospective Tenant and Landlord sit down with each other and work out their differences.

When we arrived to meet the Realtor Advocate and landlord it was very clear the Advocate never really presented our request to the landlord.
Within a grand total of 10 minutes the two parties shook hands and the lease was signed.

Advocates in this business seem to be in "Full Bloom",many seem to continuously speak for themselves,which is a problem.

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