Greg put me on this #RTB nonsense. I will say this: anyone who supports increased prelicensing requirements is a lazy coward who is deluding himself into mediocrity by legislation. They don’t want to compete with young whipper snappers, so they make it harder. Even the most innocuous opinion by Real Life Sheri is dead wrong. The responsibility for education lies with the practitioners, not with someone that’s disseminating information. I didn’t learn anything from my prelicensing except this: that my Real Estate Career was going to be filled with egomanical blowhards that were going to do their best to maximize the drama in a transaction. And that the state had the power to make me sit through 120 hours of nonsense before I could tell full grown adults that “this…is the living room.”
That’s the insanity of getting in bed with the government. When you advocate increased rules, you’re carrying a scorpion across the river and expecting something good to happen. The result will be destruction, always.
However, I’m certain that #RTB is to succeed. It’s a perfect example of Johnson’s law: All randomly generated bad ideas that benefit the government will find a willing partner in the government for their execution. See, the government doesn’t need to plot and scheme to get bigger. Once she attains a critical mass, people will kowtow and bring her offerings in the form of enslaving ideas. There is no conspiracy, there are no black helicopters. There is nothing but a bunch of morons abdicating their use of a brain and ceding what is rightly theirs to a government or trade organization. That’s enough to create massive growth in the government.
Ken Brand puts it nicely:
I don’t want to raise the bar, I want to take the steel bar and beat the crap out of the leaders (Broker’s/Sales Managers/Team Leaders/etc. who hire, support, allow, retain and reward people who violate natural laws of human interaction, common sense and professional conduct (as defined by our association).
He also gives the just deserts to the consumers that accept morons. When you advance the causes of government you are a friend to Read more