Carla B Reeves

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Carla B. Reeves, CRS, GRI, SRES Village Properties How smart these 'monkey leaders' are! I am currently associated with a local real estate company owned and managed by two such "monkeys". What a fortunate situation to be in! The RE company I was formerly with purchased the other fabulous local real estate company. It took the MANAGEMENT TEAM of this national company exactly 2 years to create total disillusionment within our wonderful family of Realtors and our fabulous 40 year old company. Many of us left to join the only other local top notch Real Estate company in our community. The BIG company's MANAGEMENT TEAM managed from afar, from the top down, they were very important VIP Executives you know! Far too important to consult with their associates or long time manager. They preferred dictatums! Kind of sounds like the rest of Big Corporate America! Zappos is right on! Treat your employee/associates like your customers and success must follow! PS I love Zappos footwear and website too. Carla Reeves, GRI, CRS, SREA Village Properties Carla@SantaBarbaraDreams.com Santa Barbara, California

Carla B. Reeves, CRS, GRI, SRES Village Properties You raise an excellent question, and I really like some of the responses posted. However, it would be really helpful if you as author made some helpful suggestions. Most professions develop a 'beltway' mentality...individuals tend to follow each other's ideas...sort of a trend. And, everyone is an excellent critic. How about some actual pointers of what does work from an outsider's point of view taking into consideration that each market is unique. Also, insider information from a Marketing Research company would be great. Tap into a marketing survey and report that on your blog. In large suburban area such as in the LA area it is productive to specialize in a housing tract of 200 to 500 homes and become the expert for that development. Whereas in a small community such as Santa Barbara that approach would be very limiting as housing tracts (very few) usually have less than 100 homes. In our community net-working connections seem to work well as SB has about 2 degrees of separation. Any suggestions from a buyer or seller's perspective?

And so the Machiavellian Game of Smoke & Mirrors continues! Don't believe a word any of those Carpet Baggers say! It's all about them, their egos, bonuses and lies! Carla B. Reeves, CRS, GRI, SRES Village Properties