Investor No-No’s or pet peeves

[Nate Tauferner]

Hi everyone!

I’m an agent in Lubbock, TX & work with a few investors who fired previous agents due to not meshing well with that. In saying that, what are your pet peeves or big no-no’s if/when you’ve worked with an agent?

[Jim K.]

@Nate Tauferner

Nate, I'm a self-managing, DIY landlord, a handyman who uses his skills on his own properties. There are plenty of people exactly like me in every market in America.

When I tell people what I do as a real estate investor, there is an overwhelming expectation that I am some kind of caricature of a workingman's man. That I do bonecrushing handshakes and I'm halfway deaf from all the years of working with power tools. Men who don't know me, ESPECIALLY white-collar-occupation men, pull out their most annoying displays of manliness when they first meet me. Especially from agents, I had already heard more imbecile drivel about home repair and renovation than I could believe ten years ago, and it's only getting worse.

Avoid those painful displays of machismo when you talk to people like me, if you could. Please. Pretty please with sugar on top.