May. 24, 2007 - More Has Been Revealed
As I was working on an offer for a couple of my investers the phone rang. Imagine my suprise when the caller turned out to be Deborah Arends from Re/Max Northwest. You remember Deborah, she's that alomost famous REALTOR® from Seattle who I wrote about last week in You Knew This Was Coming. I called her in hope of getting her side of the story before I ranted on the CBS hit piece on REALTORS® and the six percent commision, but she was understandably busy after having just been on national television and all. I e-mailed her a link to my piece after I posted it because I wanted to be sure she knew she was in my blog.
As it turns out, Deborah told me that she was interviewed for about ten hours over a two day period. Let's see now, ten hours, minus the sixty seconds of footage they used on the show, wow! That means that she had nine hours and fifty nine minutes of stuff to talk about that never made it to the air. I knew that CBS was editing everything to weight the story in favor of the flat fee listing Redfin, but I am sure that in nine hours and fifty nine minutes of film that sits on the cutting room floor there must be a lot of positive stuff about Deborah's way of doing business. As I said in my previous post, she was truely a sacrificial lamb that took one for the team.
She thanked me for my defense and indicated that the notoriety that comes with being nationaly televised hasn't really hurt her. In fact she is as busy as ever and doing well. It was really nice talking with her, I'm glad she called. One of the benefits of being almost famous and on the way up is that other almost famous people return your calls.
That's the way it is in the real world folks. A good REALTOR® is going to thrive just because they are good. The rest will fall by the wayside. When that happens, unlike CBS, those of us that are thriving will try not to step on them.
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