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Real Estate Agent Job Description:

Seeking ambitious and outgoing jack or jill of all trades to serve as a real estate agent. Must be prepared to jump into an unyielding, volatile career that changes daily. Must be comfortable with constant industry guideline shifts, prepared to help people make the largest financial decision of their lives and ready to deal with all types of people.

Real estate is certainly a one of a kind industry - and there are certain things you'll experience throughout your career that industry outsiders will never be able to comprehend fully. Let's take a look at a few situations that only real estate pros can truly "get". 

7 Problems Only Real Estate Pros Understand:

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As reality TV shows have exploded in popularity, the term ‘reality’ has been grossly exaggerated. This is especially true with many popular real estate reality shows, coined as “realty reality TV” (by me, just now). 

These shows are endlessly entertaining – but they are actually shaping the way buyers and sellers think about real estate transactions. Unfortunately, some of the inaccuracies beamed from these shows into your clients' brains are actually making your job harder because you are constantly working to reset false expectations. Like what, you say? 

Listing photos are such an important tool for effectively marketing a property, but there are many agents who simply miss the mark when it comes to providing quality images. In fact, based on what I'm seeing in these photos - it seems that some of them don't even know that there IS a mark. Here are a few of the most fail-tastic real estate listing photos floating around the web. (Disclaimer: if one of these photos belongs to you, please consider this constructive criticism and use it as a learning opportunity).

11 Outrageous Real Estate Listing Photo Fails:

Ever see something clever and immediately say, "why didn't I think of that?" Whatever "that" is - it qualifies as a life hack - which is to say, a tip or trick that makes your life a little easier. I've seen hundreds of them, each more clever than the last. Here are a few you can use to make your day-to-day real estate tasks a little simpler to execute.