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Realtor charging for his knowledge
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This is what he charges:
In-Person Power Lunch Session: $500
One Hour Phone Consultation: $150
30 Minute Phone Consultation: $100
For the amounts he's charging (lunch $500, half-hour phone call $100...) one would think that he would have utilized the services of a professional copy writer. His grammar is atrocious, with inappropriate use of apostrophes, commas, incomplete sentences, and just plain poor-ass writing.
But he's a realtor who flunked out of pre-med... what can you expect?
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I sent a message from the contact page offering him $1 if he'd blow a monkey.
I guess I should have stipulated whether or not he should bring his own animal.
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Too funny. He is actually hurting his chances with his stupid pricing.
$150/hr is beer money.
If he had a brain he would price his "services" much higher to imply an exceptional value.
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APOCALYPSEFUCK is Tony Manero says
What was his answer?
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elliemae says
There's actually no such thing as pre-med, at least not in any school I've heard of. People who want to go to medical school usually major in biology, chemistry, biochem, or occasionally physics and math.
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I'm going to offer him $5 if he'll eat a bug.
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Did he like the bug?
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Notice he uses a gmail address... wow.
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Here's his cell # 210.870.0200 if anyone wants to buzz him personally.
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Hasn't answered yet but I am being sued by the Animal Rescue League for promoting the cruel and unusual abuse of an animal.
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I love how he uses the decimal place to make the money seem like gazillions!
"Over the past year, Victor Espinoza has sold over $11,000,000.00 and currently has over $3,000,000.00 in listings."
lol
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My guess is that he does not expect to actually sell his "valuable" services to another used-house-salesperson, but it is a marketing tactic to get more listings.
After all doesn't everyone want to list with the guy in the top of his field, who even has other used-house-salespersons come to him for advice?
And, yes -- he is a horses ass.
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Nomograph says
Yes, I'm aware that "pre-med" isn't an actual course of study but is a state of mind. Heavy on the chem & biology. On the other hand, to gain acceptance in a social work program one can major in music or p.e. - or even underwater basket weaving.
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elliemae says
Yes, it's a state of mind called 'self importance' ... especially in the case of a real estate agent who claimed to be pre-med until decided that selling houses would allow him to help people and benefit society more.
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elliemae says
Not to defend a realtor, but your elitist attitude with what constitutes "good writing" and "bad writing" is rather redundant.
Use other more relevant insults.
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What a bunch of loosers you are (except MCMsinger). Hes doing something lawful and legal and somehow you have a problem with that?
Is is you can't stand seeing a successful person??? Why spend your complaigning abojut him? Why not do something productive yourself.
Why don't YOU get a real estate license, and provide your services for FREE? You know, as a community service. You would be the ONLY reputable realtor in the world, right?
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Bad spellers of the world UNTIE !
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elliemae says
Actually, there are colleges who offer a specific "Pre-Med" major heavy on Biology, Chemistry, and Physiology - I personally think its a bad idea; if you can't handle med school you are left with an unusable degree - but it does exist.
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"Victor has lived in San Antonio Texas for the passed 23 years and currently resides in the North side of San Antonio."
Uh, the word you are searching for is "past", not "passed". Is this the kind of all-important knowledge I can expect for $150? Priceless.
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DirtyLawyer says
He will probably continue to present himself this way until he has past on...
MCMSinger says
If he wishes to be taken seriously, he should present himself in a professional manner. Redundancy doesn't make me wrong, by the way.
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elliemae says
MCM, usually I am inclined to agree with you and I think that the "gramur-police" often go too far. However, a "professionally" written advertisement has a different standard than posting on a forum, or an email and I think that elliemae's criticism is very valid in this case.
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Speaking of San Antonio, per a Realtor neighbor of mine, San Antonio is not doing well in the RE business. About the only thing selling are new homes with "special" new house financing and REO's that mostly investors are buying.
The REO's need to be dirt cheap however. Rents are depressed and if you charge too much the property will sit on the market for a very long time.
The most popular investment properties are the ones near the military bases. Fort Sam Houston, Lackland, and Randolph. The troops are always looking for rent houses.
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Why bash Realtors? Why not bash senators and congress critters? The source of the real problems in this country.
Why not bash slimy attorneys, the ones with scales, horns and hoof's (which is most all of them).
Why not bash professional athletes, they make tons of money? Or just stop complaining and get a real estate license yourself, and laugh all the way to the bank!!
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chemechie says
To be pre med all you have to take is a year of math, bio, chemistry, physics, english, organic chemistry and take mcat's. There are a whole host of majors that allow you to complete these courses entirely like biology, biochemistry, microbiology. So long as you do these classes plus the test, you could major in Chinese and be pre med. but any college who offers you a b.a or b.s. in "pre med" is a college you should stay clear from.
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Yes, that's all true. I was pre-med when I was a German major. I just had to take four courses I think: biology, chemistry, organic chemistry, and physics. Then I took the MCAT and did pretty well.
I applied to 10 medical schools and got into two of them: Boston U and U of Illinois. I freaked out about the loans though and decided not to go. Probably a good choice in retrospect. I wouldn't be a good doctor.
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elliemae says
Damn, you could get a lunch date with Scarlett Johansson for that kind of cash.
Patrick says
Yeah and the process of becoming a doctor is really hard -- my sister became one -- and takes a long time. The up side is that you don't have to worry about job security like in IT. It's a lot harder, although not impossible, to outsource medical care.
Still, I always thought it would be easy to be an optometrist. I mean, how hard is saying "What's clearer A or B, A or B? C or D, C or D?". Hell, I could do that!
Yesterday, the A/C repair man replaced a broken capacitor in the A/C unit of the house I'm renting. The part costs ten dollars and it took him half an hour. He charged the owner $175. That's like $300/hour.
Now I make a decent living, but there's no way any software developer is getting paid anything close to $300/hour even for extremely complex jobs that the vast majority of people couldn't do at all. Having seen what he did, I could now do the job. Perhaps I'm in the wrong profession.
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Dan8267 says
Probably doesn't happen every day like that though.
But even so, you have a good point: college is not really necessary to make a good living. Many countries have good vocational ed programs to prepare people to do those things, but we do not:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocational_education
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With few exceptions, I don't think collage does much if anything to prepare people for real work. It's a tax you have to pay to enter the workforce and that's it.
I knew far more about software development in my freshman year of high school than most of my college professors. I learned everything I know on my own. Now, programming might be an anomaly in this respect, great programmers are typically self-taught, but I suspect that most people learn their profession on the job.
In any case, a young adult today should choose a profession that requires physical presence or he'll be competing against economic slaver workers in China, India, and other third world nations. Capitalism doesn't reward productivity. It rewards only one thing: bargaining power.
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Dan8267 says
Good way to put it.
You don't actually have to make anything worthwhile, you just have to be in control of something someone else needs.
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Yeah, that's the unfortunate thing about capitalism. I suspect that if our economic system rewarded productivity instead of rent-seeking and skimming of the top, our GDP would increase ten fold.
As it stands now, you are better off not producing anything. Production is for losers.
Imagine if every executive was limited to making only the median income in his company including any out-sourced employees. Then executives would only be able to prosper by doing all of the following:
1. Maximizing employee productivity.
2. Making sure the employees keep as much of their productivity as possible.
3. Hiring people who increase productivity, as long as they are as good as the other employees, so that a small percent of their production is still large.
Of course, this solution probably isn't perfect, but it seems worth running the experiment.
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I'd give this guy almost a dollar to take a Power Dump on his face.
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APOCALYPSEFUCK is Tony Manero says
Can we just have an APOCOLYPSEFUK like section?