Comments on: If you are not getting “yelled at” then you are not doing enough!

By: St. George Real Estate

St. George Real Estate — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:26:00 +0000

You can’t please everyone. I have never met a successful person yet who never had an incident where someone was mad at them. It is bound to happen.

Great post. I liked it a lot.

By: Pam

Pam — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:01:10 +0000

“of course you can never argue with a crazy person…just ask any husband”

Hey, you guys aren’t the easiest to live with either!

Beyond that though, it was a good article. Thanks

By: Patrick Riddle

Patrick Riddle — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:10:20 +0000

We used to put out a ton of “We buy houses” bandit signs and definitely got yelled at. We were putting out 50 to 100 a week for a long time and finally ended up in court for violations of sign ordinances. We ended up paying a fine of $800 but that was after we already made $24K on a deal we bought off one of the bandit signs.

Also would knock on doors to people in foreclosure when I got started and got yelled at plenty of times.

I’ll tell you one thing…it’s the fast track to learning what it takes to become successful.

By: JWargo

JWargo — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:12:24 +0000

Main points: first impressions are huge, market history doesn’t matter anymore, and it’s a buyers market.

I feel sorry for anyone selling right now.

By: Anne Arundel Agent

Anne Arundel Agent — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:03:06 +0000

I totally agree with this.

A year or so ago I was putting up a lot of bandit signs and a lady called to and left me a message and asked me who in the hell I was to put up these ugly yellow signs all over her neighborhood and she demanded that I come over right away to take down all of the signs.

One of my partners was like “wow, that sucks, what do you think about that?”.

I turned to her and said “Hey, at least we know people are seeing the signs”.

I called the lady back, made my apologies and told her the sign would be down by Monday morning (our normal time for taking down the weekend bandits).

Sometimes it is better to apologize later than to ask for permission first.