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When I originally wrote this article, I intended to share experiences that clients have shared with me over the past almost 30 years, 20 as a real estate attorney.

I recently re-read this article in light of a comment I received by another Realtor, and quite frankly, I found my criticisms of the real estate professional arrogant.   While the experiences I wrote about were real experiences clients have had, still I reflected on what I wrote and found it distasteful.

Rather than just delete the post, which shows up in search engine results, I wanted to share this self-reflection.   Did you ever have something you wanted to share to help someone avoid a nightmare, but sharing it was a negative rather than a positive?   Having been an attorney, I dealt a lot with negatives.   People lying, perjury, misrepresentations, and so on.   I find myself working hard to purge myself of the ugliness of law practice and the judicial system to be more positive in real estate and in sales and marketing.   Sometimes, I think that means focusing more on the positive solutions than addressing the realities of what is so ugly behind the curtains.

But there is one other aspect to my writing that caused me to delete this content and include this editorial.   I hate arrogance and pride.   But most of all I hate arrogance and pride when I recognize it in myself.   I will seek to be a more positive and friendly writer on this blog.   But to the extent that what I wrote was factually true, and it all was, I apologize to none of my colleagues who I may have offended.   I would suggest if anyone was offended, maybe, just maybe, they have been guilty of the kind of professional incompetence I often write about with one goal in mind:   Protecting the Consumer.   Why would anyone object to protecting consumers?   I’ll let you answer that one.

I am an assertive salesman, and I am a very active writer.   It should be no surprise that I will stub my toe periodically.   The alternative is to stay in the cave and not try anything in this market.   As someone once said, “Do something.   Anything, even if it is wrong.”   I will continue to do “something,” but I will strive diligently to do the right things and write helpful articles on this blog.

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