rmasse10's Blog: Realtor

I find myself becoming the center of all things in the office...probably because I try to teach everyone the benefits of sharing their talents with others in the office and dedicated alot of my own free time to help people.  Because of this, I have become somewhat involved in other peoples lives.  I know things about people that for whatever reason, they kept private but were looking for a vessel to unload stress that was building up regarding their issues.  I have one agent in the office, I would now call my friend, which has been struggling with dealing with a disease that his young son has been dealing with since birth.  His son has Congenital Glaucoma.  I do not know much about this disease other than the fact that his young son of 2 years old has it…

I remember speaking with my father that was a broker in MA back in the day and he use to get those huge books from the MLS board with all the listings in it, that were outdated the second they got the book.  He use to love that book...I don't know why as it seemed like a huge waste of paper to me but what do I know, right...wrong.  I come from a unique line of Realtors that actually have some knowledge of technology.  Having a degree or 2 in Engineering, a few patents to my name I think would qualify me uniquely as someone that has knowledge of technology.  In either event, enough about me, lets get back to Real Estate and Technology.  I knew it was a matter of time that Real Estate as well as any industry would eventually clash with technology, it was…

Ok, I have a problem that I have to get off my back.  Here is the story.  There is an agent in my office who is new to real estate, lets call her Sally.  Sally has a mentor, lets call him Steve.  Steve, for his troubles, gets 14% of Sally's first 4 transactions.  Steve's whole purpose in life as a mentor, is to help Sally setup her business and learn how to do real estate.  Ok, so far so good.  Here is where the problems start and finish.  Sally asks Steve to help her with her website.  Steve is now busy.  Steve says he will call her tomorrow.  No call.  Sally asks again, same deal, no call from Steve.  Now Sally is basically begging Steve for help and is in turn getting angry herself.  Finally, Steve admits that he does not want to help her because if he…