When I’m driving down the road going perhaps 5 miles over the speed limit – admit it! You do to! – and someone flies by going probably 100 miles per hour, I don’t get bent out of shape.  Instead, I find myself looking several miles up the road for a car turned upside down or skid marks off the road or for blue lights parked behind the speeding car.

It’s the survival of the fittest.  That’s why I found a recent blog post at Active Rain by Ruthmarie Hicks of New York to be very interesting.  She discusses that between part-time agents and full-time agents, we are hoping to “thin the herd.”

“Part-timers are better because they aren’t so pressed to make a sale…There is nothing worse than desperate agent breath!”  Major artillary

“Full-timers are available 24/7/365 – a part-time agent means part-time service and a lack of dedication. “  Saturation bombing.

I admit that when I first started in real estate, I was met with some hostility by the oldtimers.  But I was willing to work with them, ask lots of questions, and I stumbled every now and then.  Eventually they figured out that I was in it for the long haul (though 2009 nearly did me in).  Now when people think about coming into real estate (and isn’t it amazing how few there are with this limping housing market?), I tell the truth. Chances are we won’t know the same people, so won’t have the same sphere of influence.  But they’re going to have to work really hard, they’re going to have to spend some marketing money (monthly mailings, web page), and they MUST be willing to ask lots of questions or they’ll make a fatal mistake.

It is the survival of the fittest.  And in the end, it’s the people who conduct their business like a business will be around when the dust settles.