Asset Management & Recovery: Today I'm The Consumer - Scary Isn't It ?

I woke up this morning and did what I usually do, check email, check the RAIN, check my web stats, email a couple of folks and watch some CNN.  I'm boring in the morning.  Later I get to dodge bullets.  That's fun.  Ok, back to the show......

Yesterday I received a couple of documents appointing me into court cases outside of my companies MLS area.  No big deal.  That has happened before and I will usually consider refering the filed operations portion out and just do the trustee work myself.  Maybe I will join that local board and do the work myself.  It depends.

I remembered TLW's blog from a couple of days ago about Raingle not Google and instead of using Google to try and find some people to interview, I searched ActiveRain. Today, I was the consumer and was looking at the site through a different pair of eyes.

I didn't find what I was looking for, but did see something interesting.

First, there were very few agents in the area I was looking.  There were no agents with an REO or distressed asset background.  Foreclosure.com and realtytrac here I come.

Second, the agents that were there didn't have a picture or logo posted and had very little information about themselves.  One still had the "instruction" text from A/R posted under their bio.  One agent did have a little info, but as a consumer I was a little turned off by the agents "specialty"

"I specialize in all areas of buying and selling"   WHAT ?

Boys and girls, I have been doing this a long time and can think of a dozen areas of this business where I know enough to get me into a lot of trouble.  Probably not going to call this person for an interview.  My first impression is that they don't have any specialty and are probably running in 75 directions.  Not what I want or need.

I want to wrap this all up and make a point, but I don't really know how.  I guess I would say that, from the consumers point of view, the agent profile is every bit as important as blogging and getting good Google rankings.  They need to see the real you in your profile.

I specialize in everything.

I give great service.

I want to be your agent for life.....

.....are not really getting me, the consumer, to pick up the phone.

One thing that I am definitely doing this weekend is reviewing MY profile.