In today’s Agent Insights, Jason Gordon – a Senior Mortgage Loan Officer in San Diego, California – explains how TRID impacts Real Estate Agents and what they need to know to be ‘street smart’.

In today's Agent Insights post, Patricia Kennedy - a Real Estate Agent at Evers & Company Real Estate in Washington DC - shares her take whether it's worthwhile to hold on to real estate clients if they want out.

Here's Patricia:

Does it ever make sense to try to hold sellers to an agreement when they want out?  

There are usually more than one of several factors that cause sellers to want out of a listing or buyer agency agreement:

• The agent has been unsuccessful at finding a buyer.
• The agent is not doing what he said he would do to market the home.
• The home isn't getting showings.
• The listing agreement was for an unusually long period of time - longer than the sellers want to wait to make a change.
• The agent has made some mistake in their handling of the listing, and the sellers don't like the way the clean up operation got handled.
• The agent has been generally incompetent or unethical, and the sellers want to start over.

You get the drift.  

In today's Agent Insights post, Dusty Baker - a Real Estate Agent in Santa Barbara, California - shares how he got over fear of being obnoxious by adopting the pleasant persistence approach.

Here's Dusty:

I entered real estate with a very bad stigma in my head about real estate agents. They were all obnoxious overbearing cheesy salesmen that belonged on a used car lot. In response to that stigma (which of course was an overblown stereotype), I conducted my practice on the far other end of the spectrum. I gave respectful distance to a fault. And it bit me in the butt; in countless ways.

My sheepish business practices lost me upwards of $3,000,000 in sales - multiple buyers and sellers that went in the direction of whichever real estate agent was around them when they decided to make their move. However, after some frustrating trial and error, I found a comfortable medium where my business practices were strong but not obnoxious.

The "I'm not ready right now" Myth

In today's Agent Insights post, Ashley Cox - a Real Estate Agent in Dallas, Texas - talks about top myths about real estate agents.

Here's Ashley:

There is no doubt that the experiences of family and friends impact our decisions greatly. We value the opinions of those we love the most and when they have a bad experience, it's easy to draw assumptions about the culprit, whether actual or misconstrued.

Real estate agents aren't above this. In some circles, we have a bad rap.  But if you take time to read this post, you'll learn about our commitment to valued relationships and field of expertise.

Let's debunk Top 10 Real Estate Agent Myths.