Miamism

Who would not trust you?!  You're super mom and a super Realtor.  What's not to love and trust about you?  :)

I'd trust you with my business.

Rick & Ines, I know that you are the most trustworthy and ethical people in the business.  I've been 'slapped' also, when your trying to help. Some folks just don't get it.  All we can do is do our thing and do it with pride.

Hope she does well with her business. I would take free advertising anytime!

Ines: I don’t know when we first met on the Rain, but I’ve come to know you through your posts and comments over these past many months. One many learn much by what is written in posts & comments, not by how well they are written, but by what is written. What you write is from the heart and mind, and that from the heart can’t be faked.

Potential clients will perceive this as well as they read your posts, and will feel they can trust you I am certain. I know I do!

Jay

The thing about that slap is that the person throwing it so obviously seems to know something intimate about you, enough so that they say it with such confidence, when there is no basis for fact, most of the time they don't know you at all. 

When I witness this behavior I wonder how this person got to such a point that they could be this delusional and mean.  How on earth does anybody say something so obviously meant to be be hurtful and harmful, and defamatory if said in front of others, without any cold hard facts? 

It is very defamatory and downright unfriendly.  Hmmm, defamatory? Perhaps like defamation of character!  That sounds like lawsuit stuff.  Oh No, the California must have rubbed off on this transplanted New Yorker, there I go taking it back to a potential lawsuit.  I never thought about these things when I lived in NY, geez...

Sorry this ignorant woman offended you. 

Sorry that ignorant people feel like they have a right to just plain old bad behavior.  But it is her loss. 

She will never know what a nice person you really are. 

She will never have the opportunity to avail herself of your superior service. 

She will never be as well protected with another Realtor than she would have been if you had represented her. 

She may find herself sitting on the other side of the table from you one day, with you representing the other party in a transaction.  That day, she may see who you really are.

That day, she will know that she is just small.

Your post is reflective of the state of isolation people have become accustomed to.  The basis of trust is familiarity.  We used to become familiar by speaking with people face to face.  In our increasingly isolated world, we employ e-mail, or text messaging to communicate with people.  We lose all of the communication associated with voice and observation.  Shakespere could place emotion in words, most other mortals cannot. 

Since more people have difficulty trusting, more and more people assume that everyone is selfish and focused on themselves.  That is because in most cases, those same people that question your motives by offering to champion a cause that is not yours are selfish and isolated.

We have developed great methods to transmit information quickly across the world.  E-mail and texting are efficient and generally non intrusive.  Unfortunately, those same methods dehumanize us,and isolate us from the rest of society, while making us believe that we are somehow more capable.

Since e-mail, etc. are not going away, the social network of blogging may offer a partial solution toward improving our need to communicate.  Keep Blogging.  Pass out cards with your  blog url to your contacts (and the naysayers).  Tell them to stop being so rudely judgemental, and start blogging. It's not face to face, but it may be the best thing going today.

-thats 30-

How is the real estate market in Miami?