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 #21
MitchM
Facts

I may or may not have my facts straight - any one of us keeping our truths and facts separate and remembering what they are in some order is sometimes challenging and there are many much better that then I am.

I don't mind being questioned - it gives me a field of information fascinating enough in itself: study of questions and what they might mean and why. BUT it's an exercise I don't spend much time doing these days, Gary. Once I was in a line-up circa 1965 at the tender age of twenty - I was hauled in for being drunk and they struck me in the holding tank downtown Detroit then ushered me into a line-up - there I was standing with this line-up or really creepy men standing against a pealing gray wall with red height lines - we were staring into bright flood lights and a voice had each of us step up and say something.

Another time younger I was in an interrogation room under the bright lights - that time I was sixteen and was put on probation for six months having to report to a probation officer who told me to get a job in a girls shoe store so I could look up their legs. Quaint advice to a sixteen year old's ears.

Agent & Co. one of my bard buddies Walt Whitman boasted and reveled in contradictions - well, I don't do that but if someone feels I do and I do [or don't do] there are worse crimes in this world to go under the bright lights for.

Wobble, did AZ get it right? I like aout of the blue - I know some don't - but one man's out-of-the-blue is another's fit-right-in to me.

So it goes and the enemy - or best friend, sometimes, is us.

MitchM

 #22
Agent Smith
Calling Barney Fife

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Originally Posted by Gary Boye
Make sure you have your facts straight.
Do you see this differently Gary?

 #23
Agent Smith
Fact or Fiction?

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Originally Posted by MitchM
I may or may not have my facts straight - any one of us keeping our truths and facts separate and remembering what they are in some order is sometimes challenging and there are many much better that then I am.
Mitch, considering you're still actively selling, the inability to remember if you "Do or Do Not" ask for the order, "Do or Do Not" handle objections, etc. during your sales calls might signal a more serious problem. It's something to think about.

 #24
MitchM
Think About

Nah - it'a not a problem.

You take care - keep your facts straight.

MitchM

 #25
Gary Boye

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Originally Posted by Agent Smith
Do you see this differently Gary?
By "this", I'm assuming you mean Mitch and/or his posts.

It's difficult to address your question if it means talking anout Mitch in the third person mode. I think he has less of what he has termed a "cyber perona" here, and I like that about him.

Most people that post on this forum share next to nothing about themselves or their beliefs. He does.

So if I see things differently, it would probably because I place much more weight on the thoughts of those who reveal more of themselves. Mitch sometimes talks in words that I don't understand, but I do find him credible.

When he talks about his affinity for High Probability Selling, I do believe in the sincerity of his edification. But I don't think his comments are of that much interest to others here about that subject. Thus, I can honor WobblyBox's annoyance.

However, I tried to make a subtle point that nobody is really under any obligation here to undergo questioning by anybody else. Your comments regarding that made you sound like a city desk reporter.

Once I read on another thread some statistics about your own activities, and simple math would show that you were buying and selling distressed properties at the rate of over one per week. I assume the margin on that would put you in a relatively enormous income bracket--if what you said is true.

Now Mitch tells about his success with network marketing. And he talks about a method he learned which happens to be out of a book. He frequently mentions that book. I think he does it to contribute something here---not to promote someone else's business.

It would be wonderful if others here who are successful also share what they believe has brought them success. How about yourself? How do you buy and sell over fifty distressed properties a year and make that much money? How would your methods differ from from what Mitch has shared? Specifically.

Of course, as I've said, you are certainly under no obligation to answer.

 #26
Agent Smith

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Originally Posted by Gary Boye
By "this", I'm assuming you mean Mitch and/or his posts.
I was referring to a few of Mitch's posts. Here is what I wrote:
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A few of your threads came across as "I don't do that-it either happens or it doesn't" but through later questioning it seemed that you did. I remember seeing a few recent threads about closing, referrals, and objections where this happened.
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Originally Posted by Gary Boye
However, I tried to make a subtle point that nobody is really under any obligation here to undergo questioning by anybody else.
I assumed Mitch would already have known this.

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Originally Posted by Gary Boye
Your comments regarding that made you sound like a city desk reporter.
Which comments regarding that sounded like a city desk reporter?

Quote:
Originally Posted by Gary Boye
Once I read on another thread some statistics about your own activities, and simple math would show that you were buying and selling distressed properties at the rate of over one per week. I assume the margin on that would put you in a relatively enormous income bracket--if what you said is true.
Are you referring to my comments in this thread Prospecting is a marketing function ?

 #27
MitchM
Posts

Gary posted a good picture of my motives and why and what I post here - it was honest and clear. I agree with Gary that learning something about what yu feel makes you the successful person you are would be of value to me - maybe you've posted that elsewhere, AS.

I come here to pass the time away, learn something, maybe give someone else food for thought - that's it.

MitchM

 #28
Gary Boye

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Originally Posted by MitchM
I agree with Gary that learning something about what yu feel makes you the successful person you are would be of value to me - maybe you've posted that elsewhere, AS.
MitchM
I'm not in real estate. But I have to say that anyone that consistenty sells over 50 properties a year with only 1.5 appoinments a week would certainly have something that would be of great benefit to many of the real estate people here.

The amazing thing is that, in spite of all the real estate people here, nobody has asked him questions about how he does it.

As a matter of fact, more people seem concerned about what YOU do, Mitch, and you're in network marketing selling nutritional products---not real estate.

 #29
MitchM
What People Do

My local friends in real estate have given me lots of insights into our local market - a buyers market now - and what's makes them successful. Four in particular are very successful - three residential and one commercial.

All four are committed to their professions - three have worked in real estate for at least twenty-five years and the other who is really doing well twelve very intense years [in residential]

The three in for the long haul have lots of long time community relationships and sales leading into future sales with referrals and kids. The one in twelve years pumps out the hours, has a superb staff, and works target numbers every week - very organized.

All four use systems - systems include their staffs with specific duties.

That's the little I know - what do you do AS?

MitchM

 #30
Gary Boye

Quote:
Originally Posted by MitchM
My local friends in real estate have given me lots of insights into our local market - a buyers market now - and what's makes them successful. Four in particular are very successful - three residential and one commercial.

All four are committed to their professions - three have worked in real estate for at least twenty-five years and the other who is really doing well twelve very intense years [in residential]

The three in for the long haul have lots of long time community relationships and sales leading into future sales with referrals and kids. The one in twelve years pumps out the hours, has a superb staff, and works target numbers every week - very organized.

All four use systems - systems include their staffs with specific duties.

That's the little I know - what do you do AS?

MitchM
Mitch, have they ever shared how many appointments they do a week to be successful in their system? And what their closing ratio is?



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