Twice in this past week I have been exposed to some jaw dropping criticizm. It wasn't that the criticism itself hurt, I am thick skinned enough to ignore it. It's the mere fact that other Lake Zurich Realtors think they know better and proceed to ram that down another Realtors throat. Here are the two instances.
Market Reports
The way I write my market reports is my way. I decide what to put in and what not. I try to make it easy for my readers to understand. It's not an exact science, it's just simply extracting data from my MLS and presenting it the way I want. Just because another Realtor thinks differently does not make mine wrong. So I will continue to write my Lake Zurich market reports my way, with my graphs.
Property Descriptions
One of the things all Lake Zurich listing agents do is write a summary of the property being listed. I have always thought the best way to describe a property is in a story book fashion. You know, like in kids books you see a picture and there is a description underneath. Each picture is a mini story and collectively you see and read the whole book.
Our MLS has a limit on characters, so once a story idea is formed the listing agent will try to focus on extracting from the story.
One of my agents, Eileen Mattison, writes wonderful property descriptions, I am seriously jealous of her ability to extract and present the best points of a home. She paints great pictures in words. So when she gets "told" to change it and literally presented with the alternative text to use, I feel that's just downright disrespectful. Gosh did they ever consider that the listing agent and seller discussed and agreed what to use?
Regardless, we all do things differently. That does not make one right and one wrong. There are so many features to a large home, we'll all focus on the points we think are best, or the seller wants highlighted. If you feel like criticizing, please don't; please keep it to yourself, for some Lake Zurich Realtors, this can be very hurtful.
Corinne Guest
Realtor & Managing Broker
Royal Advocate Realty, Barrington
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Corinne, there are a lot of people out there who are of the opinion that their way is the only way or "best" way...I'll listen for a while...insert my opinion and move on...water off a ducks back.
I was just up at my house in Woodstock a couple weeks ago...can't believe there were still leaves hanging on a couple of maples.
Corrine I am honestly going to say that the reason they are talking about you is because they like what you are doing but they are mad that they are not doing what you are doing since you are doing a very good job at it. Happy Sunday to you.