As a Realtor®, How would you Deal with Borat?

Published by sellsius November 7th, 2006 in Blogging, Blogs, Residential Real Estate, comedy and explicit.

Warning: Explicit language. View at your own risk

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11 Responses to “As a Realtor®, How would you Deal with Borat?”

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1 Christine Nov 7th, 2006 at 5:56 pm

Oh My…. The Realtor KNOWS people who did that to their wives… Man that Realtor was a cheese eater..
2 sellsius° Nov 7th, 2006 at 6:00 pm

christine - is this video too extreme? should i take it down?
3 Tina Nov 7th, 2006 at 7:34 pm

Nah, not too extreme. People know that it’s a fake documentary, right?
4 Todd Tarson Nov 7th, 2006 at 7:49 pm

I hope that realtor has retired, even if this was all a set up with ‘Borat’. Dude broke fair housing laws and I’d have to file a complaint if he was still in the biz.
5 sellsius° Nov 7th, 2006 at 9:16 pm

todd - exactly. can someone find out if that was a staged scene or not and whether that was a real realtor®. if it wasn’t staged, he did cross the line.
6 Kevin Boer Nov 7th, 2006 at 9:32 pm

Sasha Baron Cohen, the British comedian behind the Borat character (and his equally hilarious counterparts Ali G and Bruno), is pretty secretive about how we gets these interviews. Many of them are done with real life folks who honestly believe they’re being interviewed by a Kazakh journalist, but some are just too outrageous to not be staged.

I suspect this one with the Realtor was not staged.

I do a fairly good Borat imitation, and I’ve been thinking it would be fun, though perhaps not necessarily good for my real estate career, to do a “market update” as Borat and post it on my web site.

Hey, we could make this a competition to see who can do the most outrageous, the most realistic Borat imitation on a real-estate related subject. Any takers?
7 Christine Nov 7th, 2006 at 9:33 pm

noo don’t take it down - I find it hysterical. I really hope that poeple don’t think that Realtors just agree and do anything that a buyer asks - just to make a sale. I call that Realtor cheese eater.
8 Kevin Boer Nov 7th, 2006 at 9:37 pm

The competition would also have the following restrictions:

1) Nothing racist.
2) Nothing scatalogical.
3) Nothing overtly sexual.
4) Nothing sexist.

Any takers?
9 sellsius° Nov 7th, 2006 at 9:46 pm

kevin - if anyone can dig up whether or not it was staged it would be appreciated.

re: borat contest: sounds like a hoot. as long as it sticks to the issues and some of the restrictions you mentioned. would it be a video or a podcast? if a podcast, i suggest everyone use http://odeo.com for the podcast.

christine - ok. we’ll keep it up as a “what not to do/say” video.
10 Todd Tarson Nov 8th, 2006 at 10:11 am

I would love to see a Kevin ‘Borat’ Boer production. “in my country, people go crazy for 3 and 4, but not so much 1 and 2″.
11 Todd Tarson Nov 8th, 2006 at 10:20 am

>>if anyone can dig up whether or not it was staged it would be appreciated.

What we don’t know is how many ‘agents’ did Coen have to go through before he found this sucker for his production… and we will never know.

Borat is for entertainment purposes so all in all no big deal to me since he was never really a client AND it was an entertainment production.

I pointed out the fair housing thingy because, as many of you probably experience from time to time, I do get asked about skin color or religion or nationality from time to time. (Just yesterday I was asked if there were any ‘white’ doctors that worked at our local hospital… mmm… fun) I bet a million bucks I handle it much better than the subject of the video production.