I had a phone conversation with Sam, our Buyer Agent yesterday and he was telling me how he got shafted by one of the lease leads we sent him.  People can really be so rude sometimes!  Isn't it just common courtesy to tell the truth?  If you don't want something or aren't serious about it, just tell it as it is?  No one is a fan of the whole avoidance thing - ignoring phone calls and not returning messages or emails... it's just not nice! 

Being in a business where you deal directly with people and the general public really opens your eyes up big and wide to what people are really like for the most part.  I'm not sure if the whole avoidance thing is for our benefit or if it's just an act to make the avoiding party feel better or justify their actions (which usually consists of doing what is most beneficial to them without regard to who or what it may affect in the process). 

I'd like to think that I'm a nice person and so is Sam and Otto too, but we don't always get treated very nicely.  So what do you have to do?  Be not so nice anymore?

Real estate is a very high risk - high reward business and if you make it, you do, but if you don't you could be left with a lot of time wasted, a new outlook on people and the world,  and worst of all, broken dreams.   You can be working as hard as ever pulling long hours and racking up the KMs on the car, but that doesn't mean you make any money unless you close the deals.  It's not like we're lawyers or accountants that have retainers and are paid hourly for their services.  

Well, it is what it is.  C'est la vie... of a real estate agent.