What's the worst that can happen?

It always strikes me funny that folks are so tentative when they talk to real estate agents. Perhaps many people think that if they reveal what they can or cannot afford, they'll be embarrassed. On the other hand, I wonder what's the worst that can happen?

I imagine a real estate agent brainwashing someone into buying a house and then, six months later, someone realizes they hadn't intended on buying the house they are in at all!

In reality, what happens is we get your name, maybe follow up. If you can't afford the house you were inquiring about or you're just not interested... TELL THE LADY! It's OK. You're not going to hurt our feelings. We're not going to put you on a spam list where you get junk mail for the rest of your life.

I think one of the hardest things to deal with regarding the increase in email, blackberries and Facebook is that people aren't as personalized anymore. We have now been trained to use and discard more than ever. Few people have the personal skills to handle being direct and honest anymore. We feel we have to dodge, evade, and hit-and-run.

The economy is alive and well...

Yet more proof that the economy is doing just fine. Don't even think about considering a depression when folks have enough time on their hands to consider suing someone over a logo that doesn't even remotely look like another logo! My favorite part is when the guy tries to describe why the "h" looks like an "m."

This makes my blood boil! First of all, part of the reason someone would sue someone else over something like this is that someone would risk confusing the second logo for the first one. Has anyone ever heard of Rehava? I guess because the logos LOOK NOTHING LIKE EACH OTHER are so silmilar that is what the LAWYERS fear is "Rehava" getting so popular and some dim wit actually believing they were going to Remax when they were entering the Rehava office.

Coldwell gets folks all the time calling us about Prudential agents. I guess because our signs are both blue and white. If things were headed for a depression like the gloom-and-doomers want you to think, things like this wouldn't be happeing. That lawyer would be building a fallout shelter right now and hoarding food.

Oy vey!