Requiem for the Lazy Agents

As real estate markets throughout the country continue to cool, the inventory of available homes for sale naturally increases. While this dynamic doesn't necessarily translate into a "Buyer's" market, per se, it does prompt Seller's Agents to take a more agressive approach towards effectively marketing their client's homes.

Gone now, thankfully, are the Days of the Lazy Agent. You know the type. The ones who simply input your home into the local Multiple Listing Service and pray for a buyer.

To pay your last respects to Lazy Agents, read the complete article at SOUNDBITEBLOG (opens up into a new window)

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Posted Wednesday May 30

(05/30/07 08:30PM) — Neal Bloom-Realtor ® Assoc.-CRS-Weston FL

Rich,

I agree the lazy agent days are definitely over...sometimes I wish I could call for a lazy day for the agent but I can't. You have to commit to marketing your listings even if you do not get the buyer. If I offer the service than why not deliver. I remember by the time I would schedule a virtual tour..the house would sell before it was completed. Now is much different.

(05/30/07 10:03PM) — George Souto

Rich, even if the lazy agent days are over, it is only temporary. They will be back when things are good again. It would be nice to get rid of them once and for all, but unfortunately this is something that this industry will always have to deal with.

(04/18/08 02:41PM) — Mike Kelly

Hey Rich, I have a solution that will once and for all will rid our industry of the lazy, do nothing agent! Let's raise our Realtor yearly dues to $10,000 per year and our problem is solved! This way only serious business people will be in our industry! I do not understand for the life of me why people feel that they can go into the real estate business and succeed with absolutely no investment!

Now is our chance to restore some professionalism back to our industry!

Mike Kelly, Broker, Sellstate Advantage Realty, Cape Coral, Fl