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  1. Jon Chown

    Dealing with REA's at their own game - strategies and ethics

    Stumunro has answered this correctly in my opinion. Any agent using this approach without fact is looking for a fall. Thank you for those comments, I try to give a balanced perspective because we all understand that there are three sides to all stories. Your side - My side and the truth.
  2. Jon Chown

    Dealing with REA's at their own game - strategies and ethics

    Winston, this information is already available and I provide my Sellers with a comprehensive CMA (Comparative Market Analysis) which runs to around 30 pages. The real problem is that all houses are not the same and a Seller believes that theirs is the best and the Buyers believe that there are...
  3. Jon Chown

    Dealing with REA's at their own game - strategies and ethics

    Well stated Stumunro. I'm sure that most people act with this belief, it is only the few that spoil it for the many.
  4. Jon Chown

    Dealing with REA's at their own game - strategies and ethics

    Marc, I fully realise that I am on a hiding to nothing with any attempt to try to explain my beliefs and feelings when it come to the Property Industry. I remember reading that you have had a couple of months experience and quit due to the frustrations that you felt trying to do the job with...
  5. Jon Chown

    Dealing with REA's at their own game - strategies and ethics

    VBplease asks Hi VB, Most agents who have been in the industry for any period of time will learn that multiple offers need to be trearted with caution and respect. I am not aware if it specifically states in the act how this must be handled but in Queensland we have a specific form that...
  6. Jon Chown

    Dealing with REA's at their own game - strategies and ethics

    Evand, I guess it depends upon which side of the fence you are sitting on and the age old question about which came first - the chicken or the egg. Sure this is an Investor site with Investors looking for advice and while I am not suggesting for one moment that all Agents are angels (Just as...
  7. Jon Chown

    Dealing with REA's at their own game - strategies and ethics

    Hey! Loosen up guys - The comments were a little tongue in cheek, but perhaps they were too subtle for you to see, you are so fixated at looking at the negatives of negotiation that you help to perpetuate the very things that you despise.
  8. Jon Chown

    Dealing with REA's at their own game - strategies and ethics

    About as unethical as the Real Estate Agents that everyone on this site seems to have pleasure in bagging, but then you are 'Investors" and agents have learnt to take what you all say with a grain of salt.
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