[quote author="RoLar_USC" date=1259637770][quote author="Soylent Green Is People" date=1259552555]Not to hijack this too far, but the Realtard community is rightly despised for several reasons:
They are complicite in the reduction of wealth and government intervention in the private market we're seeing now yet claim no part or purpose in it whatsoever. It's galling and unforgivable.
What few professionals that are in the business watch every day as the swelling ranks of amateurs fark up each and every transaction the get their hands on which diminish the community as a whole. Non Realtor partners (escrow/title/lenders) put up with oft threatened blackballing, pay for play schemes, and clear cut conflicted interest whenever there is a dual agency transaction - something that should be banned IMHO -while commission over conscience is the true standard. Realtards claim a code of ethics. Try to find a few who actually practice it.
I am reminded of when Abraham asked God to spare Sodom from destruction by asking "what if I find 100 righteous men in the city, will you spare them? God relented. Abraham, knowing there weren't 100 men, got the number down below 10 in a series of negotiations with the Almighty. I ask the same question: If you can find 100 right minded Realtors, can they be spared? I barely know 10 and I've been in the biz since the late 1980's.
My .02c
Soylent Green Is People.</blockquote>
"They are complicite in the reduction of wealth and government intervention in the private market we?re seeing now yet claim no part or purpose in it whatsoever. It?s galling and unforgivable." - Aren't you a Lender?
I'm not saying I disagree but it's not an issue of Realtors, rather society. Mortgage Brokers, Realtors, Lawyers, Car Salesmen, Politicians... It's all the same. To try to say that the average lender is above the average Realtor is just laughable. Very few people, in any aspect of life, have a strong code of ethics these days. Which is why it's always nice to meet another person which such ethics.</blockquote>
RoLar, I can tell you that SGIP is one of the best mortgage agents that I've had the pleasure of running into and my buyers who have worked with him would say the same thing. As he mentioned, the ranks of the mortgage agents has been more thinned out than the ranks of the realtors so as a percentage I would venture to say that there are more good mortgage agents and real estate agents out there.