sje writes: “Why should I knock myself out, when for a lousy $200 and a week of my time, I can be pulling in fat commission checks for selling million dollar condos?”
Shot on the corner of Pacific and Vanderbilt.
sje writes: “Why should I knock myself out, when for a lousy $200 and a week of my time, I can be pulling in fat commission checks for selling million dollar condos?”
Shot on the corner of Pacific and Vanderbilt.
I bet Corcoran’s Park Slope and Bklyn Heights offices graduated from there…..
Here are some things they probably learned over the course of a week:
Make sure to show properties that are at LEAST 30% over the buyers budget
Do not say thank you for commissions under $50,000 per property
Do not call ANYONE back unless a sale (or a transfer of money to you) is involved
(I’m not bitter)
11238’s comments are almost as undiplomatic as the “overheard” story above (but somehow not as funny?).
like any service industry, real estate brokers are not all alike.
(i’m not defensive)
Rita, its called an opinion. Lighten up…..
Rita, I would guess a lot of PHers have an opinion like 11238’s. It’s the biggest seller’s market in recent history, so buyers are bound to feel bitter. The brokers I spoke with were universally nice, cordial and helpful–but often were generally uninterested in following up with me.
The Corcoran broker that we used to buy our co-op was a bit bumbling but very appreciative of the commission. We even got a $100 Target gift certificate from her for Christmas.
Why can’t anyone just laugh it off? It’s a JOKE, A FREAKIING JOKE! 11238 was KIDDING!!!!!!!
11238, thanks, i’m actually feeling light as air… just presenting mine as well.
i’m just offering the DH community (which i love!) another perspective to consider: a possible reason that brokers may have difficulty following up is that they can get 30-100 calls and emails a day, and as you can imagine, it is impossible to follow up with everyone. it’s a frenzied market… imagine a restaurant that just got slammed: each customer has to work a little harder to get a server’s attention.
hope that perspective helps folks in dealing with brokers.
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that was supposed to be a smiley at the end of my email… ya know, to prove that i was being light.
It looks like a smiley doing jumping jacks. I got it, though. 8-D
oops, just saw sje’s comment… um, sorry to inspire ALL CAPS FAUX-CURSING comments… i didn’t mean to. hoping we can all just get along.
for the record, i think the photo and sje’s caption are hilarious… i think the same thing when i see that sign (there’s one at the manhattan bridge entrance too).
ok, over and out.
WOOOO… I was in a now where job, living in a one bedroom apartment, but thanks to “$200 Dollar Real Estate Classes” I now live in the Park Slope and have a huge yacht. Just look at all these beautiful babes !!! Thanks $200 Real Estate Classes.
I actually took this course and it was GREAT!!!! My friend dragged me along and I was soooo shocked of everything you learn in the course and how great the Real Estate market is now. Just in case if anyone is interested the name is Express Real Estate School
Believe it or not you can get take a real estate salesperson class almost anywhere for between $200 and $400. Check out NY Real Estate Institute (nyrei.org) or Hunter College’s Continuing Ed program, among others. You have to be sponsored by a real estate brokerage to get your license, and you will be a salesperson, not a broker. To be a real estate broker, or a mortgage broker you have to take additional classes. I looked into this at one point as a possible hold-me-over type of job when I was pondering an entrepreneurial move, and even found a broker to sponsor me, but the income potential in the first years is too unpredictable. It’s recommended that you have a substantial savings to get you by while you’re waiting to make sales, or in between sales.
I can’t say we had a good experience with Corcoran. That said, they’ve got a bit of a strangehold on the market so Brooklyn is stuck with them, and we might have had an equally bad experience with anyone else.
Real Estate it’s very easy to get in but very hard to stay in. Only, someone who has been in RE Sales for awhile can understand the hours upon hours of learning, not to just get your license but to learn about the industry, such as the laws and market conditions. Not tomention the hours upon hours of prospecting, establishing a name for yourself, and making a good living.