Let us know what you have in mind (you can email us) and we will include it in our handout. We are creating a database of professionals and what they can offer. We’ll add you to the list.

Thanks John

We’ll add you to the list. We leave it to the professional to define “need” and the extent of their help. I gave the example of a family in a slum rental who have the chance to move into a real crummmy fixer upper. If an broker or agent gave up their commission to the family, they could use the money to do some needed repairs ( or a builder could offer to give materials at cost and sacrifice some hours to help in the repairs.) When my sister bought her house (a fixer) I was over there every weekend helping her fix the place up. I also did her closing for free. Need comes in many forms, as does generosity and goodwill.

What’s up with Greg Swann? I think we all know. His way of getting attention & traffic is to piss people off and try to start blog wars. He loves to instigate a fight (OK) but then censors rebuttal on his blog (NG) (reminds me of that kid in school who’d put his fingers in his ears and yell “nanananana” when you tried to argue with him)—he censors comments that disagree with him (not only ours, which he blacklists completely to his AND his contributors’ posts) He sees the negative in virtually everything (sipping from a half empty glass, his days are always party cloudy). But he is an excellent backflipper and fence rider. You can say he writes “with forked tongue.” Here’s a guy who went from debunking zillow to putting a zillow ad on his blog sidebar. Go figure. (IMO, he’s blobbying for a job at zillow.) The guy is new to real estate and probably won’t stick—offer him a writing gig and he’ll pull up his lawn signs.

Aside: What I don’t get is his obsession with the age of his blog —he celebrates a blog birthday every month or so (it just turned 11 months–yippee) and he lies about its age (his archives go back to November 2005–was that not Swann writing back then?) What’s up with that? I guess if I stopped writing here for a month or so and restarted, the blog would be brand spankin’ new. Must be some kind of weird “dog logic” at work. Stop blogging in the sun, Greg.

Without being too negative, let me just say, what’s up Bloodhound Blog’s a** all the time??? (You can spell that word out, if you don’t mind profanity on your site.)

I have never offered to do a deal gratis for any clients, only because I figure if they can afford to buy a home in Boston (average price, $450,000) then they can afford to “pay” my commission. (I say “pay” because I work only with buyers.)

Since I work for myself, I can do whatever I want. If you hear of anyone who really needs the services of a real estate broker but would really benefit from getting my 2.5% commission back as a rebate at closing, feel free to pass on my name & info.

More to follow.