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Re: Real Estate CRM For Agents And Brokerages

jwmcfhd — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:18:04 -0000

Understand you are in a revision mode at present, but a demo of product would be great.

I have personally wasted so much time, on the phone, in sit downs with RE Vendors, who use the Texas hold em approach to their products, only by divulging all kinds of broker info do you get a peek at their products. And having spent thousands as a broker on stuff, I now am in the mode if I can't test drive it without Vendor involvement, then NEXT.

Example after hours of putting together broker info for a Vendor to "evaluate our needs" and hours of phone consulting, he recommended a CMS that he wanted a 35 grand licensing fee to use, and his CMS was not even as good as that of Joomla!

This broker is no longer going to look at Vendors, only companies that will share the risks of their products performance and have the desire to partner with us in the fulfillment of delivery and product performance, and no we will no longer sign 12 month monthly fee contracts. Only the vendor wins in those contracts, and the broker is usually put in a weakened position, because that is the way a Vendor contract is developed.

So before I give you information, provide the Contract you will want me to sign, if the Contract is approved by our attorney, then I will evaluate your products. So far I have had no takers.

Re: A Complete Solution

jwmcfhd — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:57:23 -0000

Eric your fees page is blank.

Re: Real Estate Tech Vendors Need A Code of Ethics

jwmcfhd — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:49:02 -0000

As a vendor yourself, are you aware that the page that is supposed to have your pricing, is blank.

Also I am sure there is a strategic reason for not having "email" on any of your pages.

As a Broker the word Vendor is a dirty word, because they follow no code.

I have owned businesses outside of RE for the last 20 years, and I loved, admired, respected those Vendors, only after opening a RE brokerage did I learn that the class of Vendors who make their living from our companies, cannot be trusted, and should not be trusted. Learning this lesson has been a very costly one over the last year and a half.