Do you know your real estate agent?

I mean do you REALLY know your real estate agent that is supposed to be handling and representing your best interests during your very expensive and extremely important real estate transaction??

Your agent or Realtor is required under their Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice to have “competency, fairness and high integrity in conducting their business relations.” Unfortunately, I’d have to say that there are just too many agents out amongst us who have failed to even meet the absolute minimum standards set forth by The National Association of Realtors.

During the previous real estate boom many people made millions just by getting their real estate license. Even the neighborhood stoner guy got himself off his couch long enough just to make a few easy bucks! There was an enormous influx of new and very inexperienced agents who represented our buyers and sellers of America’s homes. It didn’t matter whose name was on the real estate sales sign because everything that hit the MLS immediately sold before the sign even went into the ground. To our dismay, these agents still exist today.

I have dealt with multiple agents that in my opinion, couldn’t get Brittney Spears or Paris Hilton any publicity at all. They have been either extremely unprofessional in their approach and actions or just plain incompetent in servicing their client.

Don’t get me wrong, not all agents are bad. In fact there are quite a few in my network that are exceptional. My hope is that the current degraded real estate market will not only cycle back towards the positive, but also will cleanse away the bad agents that has flooded our real estate brokerages so that the good agents can do their job effectively.

Maybe it’s time to get Noah on the horn and tell him to start building a new Ark. We could post an ad on Craigslist.org which could read:

LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE ON NOAH’S NEW ARK

Competent, Qualified, Courteous and Professional Real Estate Agents Need Only Apply

Call Today Before It’s Too Late!