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By: REALTORS and Lawyers - Peas in a Pod?

REALTORS and Lawyers - Peas in a Pod? — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:41:29 +0000

[...] Notorious ROB has an excellent post making some comparisons between lawyers and REALTORS. If you have ever had a bad experience with a [...]

By: If Yer Gonna Raise the Bar, Then Raise the Whole Saloon « The Notorious R.O.B.

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:50:31 +0000

[...] 17, 2008 Interestingly enough, just after I wrote about the problem of too many real estate agents overall, I found a post by Dave Phillips over at [...]

By: Charles Woodall

Charles Woodall — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:11:50 +0000

Good post Rob! As usually, you strike at the heart of the matter.

Here in Alabama, it takes 15 times the education to get a license to cut someone’s hair than it does to get a real estate license. While higher entry standards might not cure all of the problems, as your comparison to the law profession shows, it would go a long way toward weeding out some of those that have no business being in this business.

By: -Rob

-Rob — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:38:31 +0000

That is a problem…

And as long as the entire industry, from licensing on up, continues to foster that environment, I’m afraid the image/reputation of the realtor will never truly be as a “professional”. That sucks because it makes the hard work of the truly professional agents frustrating — no matter how conscientious, how professional, how knowledgeable you are, you get associated with the yahoos and the morons.

Sad…

-rsh

By: JeffX

JeffX — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:11:30 +0000

I succinctly remember the real estate sales exam reading almost verbatim to the ‘practice’ test that was taken at real estate ’school’ 3 days prior…

The problem starts at the root…