With That Too?
I spend a good bit of time reading and researching and generally trying to figure out how to excel at this job, how to provide superior experiences for my clientele. I’ve managed to surround myself – virtually – with other agents with the same goals. Perhaps I enjoy living in this idealized virtual world a bit too much, because this email has made me almost irrationally angry.
It’s from some agent in Phoenix that I don’t know, have never talked to, or heard of. I’m just his information b**ch of choice.
From: [phx agent]
To: Kelley Koehler
Subject: Phx agent needs your help
Hi Kelley,
Please let me know any info you can find about these properties. I’ll be happy to send you a referral.
________________________________
From: [some other random guy]
To: [phoenix agent]
Subject: Check these for me
[Phoenix agent name removed],
Can you look these properties up on MLS for me. I need to know the Owners name on both!
Thanks (They are in Tucson)
I don’t even know where to begin. Should we start with the standards of practice that say you don’t sell outside of the region you know? Or maybe if you’re not willing to join an area MLS, you shouldn’t practice there. Or maybe if you’re too stupid – in a state where home sales and ownership are public record – to figure out who owns a home, then you shouldn’t be doing business at all.
How about running a quick Google search yourself on the addresses and finding the listing agent? Or use any one of a thousand Tucson MLS searches, plug in the MLS# yourself, and figure it out?
Or how about calling and asking me nicely and explaining the situation instead of trying to bribe me with an ambiguous referral for doing your clerical work?
