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You HAVE to love your Realtor

11 years ago

I was contemplating some of the very strong feelings people expressed this week and have a couple examples that may help in understanding that when you select the RIGHT person to help you and you buy the right product your end result may be more pleasant.
1. When I purchased my home in Pa. many years ago I bought it for 55k. Now the commission that went to the Realtor who showed me the home got 1/2 of the 5% commission. So that was $1,375.00. I imagine back in 1987 that might have paid a few weeks living expenses for the Realtor? Now--20 years later I sold the property for 275k!! Sure I did some work on the house etc. but I must say I was very happy with that price--so, follow me here, the Realtor made $1,375 and I made $220,000!! Who got the best side of that deal?? I made $11,000 a year for 20 years!! What is my feeling towards my Realtor--Thank you, thank you and thank you!!
2. Land here at Grand View started out at $5-6 a square meter 6 years ago and now I am selling for $16. Guess what?? That is now the established sq m price for the folks who invested years ago. And in reality we are selling cheaper than a lot of our neighbors outside of our gates. What did we do for folks?? Looks like we made them a very nice profit over a short period of time. And yes we have had resales where folks cashed in. Is there something about that that would make you mad?
3.In a recently constructed home here the value of what we have built for people is this---the owner of this house had a choice, stay where they were and work till they drop or buy a lot and build here and retire. So--now that they are retired and enjoying doing whatever the heck they want every day instead of working??? Why would someone be mad at that??
My point is this---please consider what salespeople do--what marketing does--If you are unhappy with a person or situation in the past I would like to submit that it may be YOUR bad choice in people--YOUR bad choice in buying the wrong product or buying at the wrong time or buying something you did not have the money for? Because when done correctly salespeople perform an awesome service that in reality makes YOU the benefactor from the transaction. If you don't agree I would suggest looking for the REAL source for your bad experience. Man I LOVE good salespeople--they are almost impossible to find today but I just love when someone understands my needs--and maybe even understands what I don't understand myself and helps me with that! THAT is what good sales professionals do and if you don't realize that, it just may be that you have never met one?

Gill Phelan
www.gvecr.com
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