To be sure, doctors and attorneys ARE professionals – all others are suspect. The reason I say this is because attorneys have secured themselves within society as being NEEDED. And doctors, almost by definition of their profession, are MOST needed. So, maybe a professional is dependent upon the perception of being needed. If that’s the case, a “Realtor” is not NEEDED! …in ANY sense of the word!

Having been a Realtor for 12 years I can tell you we are not NEEDED! We may be sought after, and our services may be wanted, but we are not NEEDED – at least to the same degree as a doctor and/or attorney. Like it or not… this IS the truth.

Real estate professionals are not needed in society. EVERYTHING we do CAN be done by someone else – including the homeowner(s) and/or would-be homeowner(s). Sure, we know a LOT of tricks of the trade and we can probably market a property more objectively than the owner(s). That does NOT mean we are NEEDED. We are what some might consider ancillary, or “not necessary.” We make a living selling people’s homes either for or to others. Surely, this does not compete with saving a person’s life… in the literal biological sense; nor does it compare with the full-time lobby of attorneys known as Congress to insure their livelihoods.

Parents are more professionals than any sales person. A sales person does what many can or will not – SELL! In so doing, the salesperson does what is ever necessary to “sell” that which he/she is marketing – regardless of the betterment of another, society, themselves, etc. A salesperson’s living is almost entirely – if not entirely – based upon only one thing… the closing of a sale! That’s it! Fine! So, the $$$$$ determines what is sold, when, by whom, etc. He/she is more greedy usually makes the most $$$$$.

Doctors save lives, “real estate professionals” are the whores of the real estate industry. We work for money at the peril of anyone/anything that comes in the way of the sale. The “Realtor” factor means little more or less. …and this is the truth, from someone who’s been on the outside as well as one who’s been on the inside of real estate sales. We are not “professionals” in the same sense as those who save lives, nor on par with those that create law. We are sales people, who live for the “kill” of the sale… especially in THIS market!!!

It does exist within and it is a term that is misused and abused – and ultimately it’s up to each one of us to prove our worth.

Thank you. I agree with you.

I’m sure I had it right in the original draft. Must have slipped up in the editing and posting process. I hope you got past the error and found some value in the piece itself.

The term “professional” of oft misused and over-rated. Love what you do and do what you love to do. If you start to hate it…change what you do.