Why Some Palm Harbor Realtors Are Bored

Lately, when not in the Keller Williams Realty Palm Harbor office, we’ve run into far too many bored Palm Harbor real estate agents.  Some are from real estate offices that are on the verge of closing.  I plead to them “There IS hope.  There IS a success plan!”.    Most often it lands on deaf ears.  I must not be conveying my message with enough conviction, or maybe I come off as annoying, or maybe I’m just too busy to do so properly.    

On Monday, I was told about a Palm Harbor real estate agent, a fairly well known one just a short year or two ago, was looking for a part time job.   We’ll call her Sally.

On Tuesday, I ran into another Palm Harbor Realtor that used to do a LOT of business in Pinellas County, and let it suffice to say that the opposite has been true for her lately.  We’ll call her Sue.  Sue was working the election polls for the day doing her civic duty (hats off to her for that).  Sue confided that she was there because she was bored and had a lot of time on her hands because there’s not a lot happening in real estate any more.   I was polite and tried to not let my mouth hang open too much, but has she not seen the numbers?  Just as many homes are selling this year as were a year ago!

This week I had a transaction not come to fruition.  The other agent involved, we’ll call her Samantha, spent countless hours of her time, and as much of our time as possible, on the paperwork details and commiserating over what might have been instead of proactively finding the next buyer for this fantastic house.  

This morning I had FOUR agents whom I’ve never met call me on some of our listings.  Each one wanted to chit chat at length about how bad the real estate market was and tell me their tales of woe. 

Sally, Sue, Samantha, these 4 Pinellas real estate agents and countless others haven’t been blessed yet with the ability to go out there and make things happen while ignoring the negative media, declining Pinellas home prices and stories of the sky falling in.   It’s heartbreaking.

We aren’t saying this to brag, but Suncoast Partners’ business is humming along at a full-tilt boogie like never before.  We’re fully engaged in this wildly fun and challenging real estate marketplace.  We’re busy working hard for our clients, marketing their homes like never before, negotiating Pinellas short sales for buyers and sellers alike, attending home inspections for upcoming closings, answering phones that are ringing all the time, previewing hundreds of homes at fantastic prices for our buyers, staying in touch with people we’ve worked with in the past, finding plenty of new clients and making new friends, staying in constant touch with Brian Forrester of TriCounty Mortgage who keeps us up on the latest mortgage industry news, answering a flurry of Internet inquiries, crunching Pinellas real estate statistics so we stay on top of the latest trends, assisting other agents whenever asked, writing the occasional blog post, and about 2,343,698 other things. 

If you are that bored agent, or perhaps just feeling a little overwhelmed, give us a call.  There are countless ways to turn your situation around, and we’d be happy to share what others were kind enough to share with us.  Know that we’ve been there, too, and that’s why it’s part of our life’s purpose to share the secret of how to grow a successful real estate business. 

If you are looking to buy or sell real estate and are interviewing agents, ask questions and do your homework to find out how many homes they’ve sold this year, what their list to sale price ratios are, days on market for their listed homes, if they are experienced and certified in Pinellas short sales and Pinellas foreclosures, etc.   Don’t forget to ask for references!

You might even want to contact us.  We’d be thrilled to have the opportunity to interview for the job of being your Pinellas real estate consultants for life.