my Response to My Attack at AgentsOnline.net from the "Realtors" - so Friendly they are...
It seems that My Videos and "information" is riling up the Realtors. Of course it is because they feel consumers will look at my information and judge or attack them. And many of them are Good People just trying to get by in this world.
However, the Realtor Agenda at NAR is hurting consumers and me speaking out about my TRUE experience may hurt some Realtors in the field in the process, this is Collateral Damage. I have truly experienced the stuff I talk about, and if my story seems like a lie to the Realtors who Flat Out say that I am lying, well I can't help that. It is true for me according to what I have seen. If other REALTORS, Brokers want to share their stories of the "industry" and how happy they are with it then they are free to do that. However most simply just like to attack me because they somehow feel threatened.
The thing is, if you do right by your consumer and do the best you can to protect them and stand behind them then don't let my sites bother you. If NAR at your State and Local level backs you up and holds Realtors Accountable for Ethics and Standards of Practice Violations, well then ignore my sites, my words.. my Yammerings.
For me I have found those at the Local Level and State level are turning consumers away. Maybe they are powerless, maybe they are lazy, whatever the reason, Consumers go to them with REAL issues, REAL lies they have been told by REALTORS and the State Realtor Association says they can do nothing. The State Governing body can do nothing and the consumer ends up fighting in court for years for something they thought they were buying in the first place.
They take their proof to the local board, they reach out to get help and there is none. Then they go into the lawsuit process where the Real Estate Attorneys treat them, the Victim, as if they are the criminal and the fight begins. This fight is not so much about fact or proof but about the Realtors E and O insurance dragging the consumer through years of "discovery" - marching engineer after engineer through your home, dragging each request for discovery out for months on end.
And this fight is where your attorneys decide what you DESERVE, what you can settle for and they push you into what is best for them.. and by settle this means between the buyer and the Seller and rarely does the Realtor have to pay anything. I have seen this stuff first hand, I have reached out the Realtors Association and they CHOOSE the bad Realtor - the Realtor who lied - failed to disclose and hurt the real estate consumer badly.
Why, well they choose the Franchise especially if one of the franchises is Owned by Cendant, who use to be Realogy or Apollo management and yes they went or are going bankrupt so what, they will just restructure under another name and you the real estate consumer, you Lose.
And those at the National Level well they are all about Billions, about Lobbying to make sure REALTORS can keep at What they Do... a Privately held Company, association ... they push your government around and Make you, the Real Estate Consumer NEED them (or thing you do) and they enact - push for laws that ensure you have to use them in your Real Estate Transaction. This SHOULD be Illegal. I mean they have a whole lot of tricks and loopholes as an Association and yet really they are a very big business forcing consumer, manipulating consumers to have to use them... and getting richer every day from it.
The owners or Realtor.com , HomeStore, Move.com and more sites .. they need you (the Realtor and the Real Estate Consumer) to make their sites more interesting and to get a HUGE amount of Internet traffic, this is not traffic that is GOOD for the consumer, it is NOT targeted Internet traffic to really hook up buyers and sellers. It is good for advertising, for those at the top of the REALTOR food chain to be able to sell ad space, make deals with insurance companies, mortgage companies, computer and hardware companies and lots more. Without your real estate listing they have nothing to justify their websites....
NAR makes money at every single level, off the Realtors in the Field and the Consumers and they do NOT back up their propaganda of being of a Higher Standard. It is all about the Bottom Dollar.... about investors... about Billions...
I have a whole lot of posts on several blogs about these topics, I do this to empower and to educate the real estate consumer in HOPES of protecting them from lawsuits, sleepless nights, stress and financial loss from a Realtor lying to them and NAR not holding the Realtor accountable. What I have to say, to share is very valuable... take it or leave it. But why bash me, why say I am lying.. it makes no sense to me.
I understand the Realtors frustration, however I am Speaking the Truth. I cannot help if they have not seen what I have. It does not make it less true. I am not out to hurt the individual Realtor, but if it upsets them then Oh Well.... This Stuff is Really Happen and is Really TRUE.
most Realtors blogs are just to keep them on your minds for your target market, which is good, for Them, however most Realtor blogs are stats, regurgitated information, reports rewritten and well just filler... my Goal is to GIVE you the Cold - Hard Truth about the Real Estate Industry.
Funny how they slam me on What I don't Know.. and that is one of my points... I did not know.. yet You, the consumer looked to me as if I did. You look at real estate Brokers and expect them to know more then they do, expect them to be held to higher standards and ethics then they really are.
I believe the real estate consumer has no real protection in their transaction. I have seen this and experienced it first hand. I am telling YOU the TRUTH.
Most who slam me are NOT Broker Owners, did not speak for their agents, and their clients. They did not deal directly with the People at the levels I did. These Realtors simply assume that I am lying, I am wrong and that this did not really happen and they go at me like a pack of Wild Dogs. The TRUTH is it really did happen.
I am not sure if the Realtors that say I am lying have seen what the Real Estate Attorney does to the Consumer. The Realtors and Those Claiming to Be Educated about Real Estate are Bashing me daily. I know that I do not know everything. But I certainly Know what I have seen with my own eyes...
I have seen the HUGE gap between Realtors, what they really do in the field - in the real estate transaction and Real Estate Attorneys, and what they think the Realtors do. And in lawsuits what this Failure does that hurts you the real estate consumer. This is not localized or ONE incident... it happens ALL the time, over and over. And no one is there to back up the consumer....
So Here I am ... To Back up the Real Estate Consumer.. which is the Oath I gave, and what was my intention in joining NAR - the Supposed of a "Higher Standard" association.
I will NOT back Down. I have seen the Pain Consumers Go through. I have went through it myself. I have seen sick kids and financial ruin. NAR is in NO WAY there to back up the consumer or the honest Realtor in these situations... so there is NO POINT in being a Part of NAR... oh unless you need their STOLEN database. ... that SHOULD be a Public Utility.. the PUBLIC is really who built it...
I am not trying to sound like anything other then who I am, I am just me. These Realtors who spend their day telling me that I am wrong have NOT seen what I have seen. I am not acting SUPERIOR in any way as they like to say, I don’t even know them or how they do business, my experience is with NAR at every level and with what I have seen with the Realtors in the Field that I have known.
These folks take my words as a direct attack on them personally and they get their panties in a wad and attack back, defending the Realtor Nation…. Why? I am speaking up for the Realtors as Well. I cannot help it if they don’t know what is really going on, that does not mean that I am lying.
I expect over the next Decade, thousands upon thousands of Realtors will feel they need to attack me to protect their turf. But seriously it is a waste of your time. This really happened to me and I am not going anywhere. My Sites will be up for at least a decade... that is just the way it is.
The Realtors saying I am making a Fool Out of Myself.
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The Realtors say that my information is “pathetic” - I could sit hear and quote prices, and trends, quote the hundreds of real estate books and information I have read, but what I want you to know how bad it really is. I am not trying to “Impress” those who apparently need me to be a Scholar in my videos, I am saying the real estate consumer counts on real estate brokers and when they lie, when they fail, no one holds them accountable.
The Realtors say that My Videos make me look bad to anyone who is “Educated” about real estate. I am a Broker Owner, I have seen the inside of Lawsuits, I have seen Flat Out Fraud, I have seen lies about lake access and property disclosure that ruins consumers lives.
Education - Big Deal... this is information on what it Should Be, what a perfect world of real estate might be, on laws that are in place, on facts and figures and it is NOT on the Real World of Real Estate, the down and dirty details of the REAL real estate transaction. It is an education on the FACT that you cannot really enforce those laws you spent years learning.
I am ok with sounding “ignorant” - “stupid”, as the Realtors like to say. I do my best to get my point across. I am NOT ok with not Speaking Out about what I have seen over the last decade.
I can quote textbooks, I have read a whole lot of real estate How To mumbo Jumbo books. But I don’t think that is what the real estate consumer really needs to know.
I have also ready a whole lot of law cases, law books, and though the “Realtors” slam me online I am certain I have read and studied more then most of them.
Some say I am writing this stuff because I have had a BAD year, this is BULL, I am writing this stuff to tell you the TRUTH to attempt to tell you what the “Realtors” are saying about you and what they are doing to you.
I have cut my hair off, SO WHAT. They like to Slam me for That.
One Person called “Faithful Member” at AgentsONLINE.net say that I look like a guy but call my self Crystal. Folks, look beyond all their drama and find out the TRUTH. I look like a guy, this agent says… so what is this Relevant to Consumer Protection in any way. The Realtors slam my hair, slam my clothes, slam the way I pronounce words… is this Helping?
I am a Broker Owner, I have my own real estate company and have for almost a decade, I am telling people, who read MY blog.. What I have seen that DOES happen in the Real Estate Industry.. And the “Realtors” want to somehow discredit me or diminish my truth somehow because I don’t dress or talk right. This does not make Sense.
I do not want you to be hurt in ANY way by your Real Estate Transaction. Not because I had a Bad year, not because I failed in ANY way, but because I say what DOES happen to the Real Estate Consumer every single day and I want you to KNOW… it is YOUR right to know. And though the “Realtors” have just begun their Rant on me… their Counter Attack, I won’t back down. I want dress the way they need me to, I won’t tell you useless facts and yammerings that NAR puts out … you don’t really need to know that stuff….
Someone tells me how STUPID and how WRONG I am most every day. But How DARE they really, I am telling you What I have Seen FIRST hand as a Real Estate Broker Owner, it is my True Experience. These Realtors slamming me and telling me that this did not happen or this is not true, they have no right to do this, really, I mean it is my blog, my story, my truth the way I REALLY witnessed it myself and they tell me I am wrong…. What…
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hat is in it for me is to Save ONE real Estate Consumer from the Misery and Pain I have seen the Real Estate Industry, the Realtors do to the Real Estate Consumer.
Most ALL of The Realtors who slam me do so after watching one video, or reading one or 2 posts. They do not even get the Whole message or what I am really saying. Most see One Video or hear something from a Client and they lay into me…
I have Hundred of Posts out there on hundreds of sites, the Realtor who NEED to slam me have certainly not read them all. Most only watch a part of a video, and read MAYBE one post then they jump in to attack the way I look, the way I dress, and how I pronounce Real A Tor and then they tell me how STUPID I am and How I am lying…
My Blogs is My Story, like a “Realtor” Biography, sort of, it is my experience. It is not necessarily idea, bit a concept, not how things MIGHT be, but instead how they really TRULY are in the Real World of Real Estate.
Slammed Again and Again, SLAMMED because I do not say Realtor - Real A Tor… who cares…. NAR makes such a big deal about this and it is NO big deal. The Consumer has no rights, and NAR makes sure to keep it that way. The Real Estate Industry is seriously broken and the Real Estate Consumer is suffering silently with no where to turn and Realtors want to slam me for my Pronunciation of a Word.
I have been slammed a lot for this. I know how to say it, I have all the same classes you have. So what, I say it the way is MOST comfortable to me. I am so sick of NAR and all their classes and now agent after agent slamming me because I say “Realtor” wrong and don’t say REAL - A - TOR… it is NOT that big of a deal and if this is the biggest thing on your mind, you don’t have a clue about what is really going on in the real world of real estate.
The Realtors are beside themselves trying to figure out my angle. Why can’t they just accept the FACT that I am just telling my story, sharing my experience with the Real Estate consumer.
There are hundreds of thousands of Blogs out there to fill the Real Estate Consumers head full of information, stats, bogus “how to” and most all of it leads to simply getting the agent recognized, getting them clients - customers. My Blog is NOT intended to be that kind of information. I assume that the Real Estates Consumer is VERY intelligent. I KNOW that the Real Estate Consumer is being misled, and has no rights. My blog is about what they are not telling you. It is Real World real estate.
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The drama, the cat fights, the lies, the silent fraud, the non-disclosure, the Realtors talking about your illness - your divorce, the lies of back up offers, the truth about title insurance and the Big Ol’ Realtor GAME that is Directly Hurting you the Real Estate Consumer.
NAR is in no way of a Higher standard. The Real Estate Industry is seriously Broken and NAR is at the Helm of the Ship.
So what if I don’t Look the Part, Talk the Part or Dress the Part … I played the Part and I am Telling you what I have Experienced.
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