no it isn't, and chaps in my course did sound out about it too.
but the theory goes like this:
our trainer told us that by the time we open our morning papers
and called our first prospects from the classifieds in the morning,
100 other agents (or their runners), would have called the chap up
already, even, or ESPECIALLY if he's put on his classified ad, "no
agents". For you, it may be that he's pissed off and had enough of
the phone calls that he'll give in and sign over his property for
you to sell. For the industry, it makes the position of private
sellers so untenable that everyone would resort to using agents for
property transactions. I get about 20 cold calls and smses from
fellow agents from the ads I've pasted on the newspapers, every
single day. the other night some fellow smsed me at 2am ...
remember, all the most successful chaps in insurance or property
or any similar industries are all hustlers through and through.
And you can't stop these chaps, cos they are not telemarketers
nor telemarketing companies.
I shudder to imagine what it'd be like if they try to en-bloc my
place again. I lost count of the number of fuck-yous I screamed
over the phone and the middle fingers I pointed at those who showed
up at our door. -_-"
and in case you think that was uncalled for, they tried using
bullying and scare tactics to make the elderly owners, including my
mother, to sign the CSA
