idiots

I've decided that as soon as we get our house crap together and I make sure all of the Christmas stuff is paid for, I'm going to start working on getting my realtor's license. Maybe even if our house doesn't sell under this particular contract with this realtor, I'll just go ahead and do it.
I have known a few realtors in real life, ones I never had the opportunity to use myself when buying or selling, and they were nice intelligent people. However, the realtors that I've worked with here are idiots. I've met others who aren't idiots, but somehow, we end up with idiots. Idiots that drive up to my house in gleaming BMWs.

The first realtor we had to deal with when we were buying our house was so idiotic that Tony practically had to duct tape my mouth shut from telling the woman off at closing. He said when she walked in, my hatred of her was palpable in the air. I hoped so, since that's the feeling I was trying to put off. She was an idiot, a jerk, and almost made us lose our contract on the house with her stupidity and lollygagging. The second realtor we had the house listed with wasn't an idiot per se, but I wouldn't call him a genius. At least he was friendly. There wasn't a lot of selling going on, though.

This one we have... my main problem is that I have a serious issue with someone not being detail oriented when details are incredibly important to the job. And I have a problem with someone being too absent-minded to do his job. I mean, I know I forget things at work, but when I forget something, it just means that a grade doesn't get posted quite as quickly as they'd like, or I hand out papers tomorrow rather than yesterday. This dude is dealing with hundreds of thousands of dollars. Like, we have pointed out to him NUMEROUS times that there were mistakes on our listing and on the flyers out in front of the house, which people are constantly driving by to take. We were almost out of them, so I decided to make some for myself, and in retyping, I see the same mistakes STILL THERE (like it says "partially finished basement" instead of fully finished -- a somewhat important detail). However, I ALSO see that it still says "evaporative window cooler". In other words: swamp cooler, no central air! Hello, jackass! That is a major selling or not selling point! I know I am not even looking at houses without AC, and I'm guessing that's the case for others too. So I corrected all the idiotic mistakes on the flyer, made one that isn't so tacky, and replaced the tacky flyers with mine.

Anyway, I looked into it, and it only costs like a thousand bucks or something like that to get your beginner realtor license. I'd have to get myself associated with an office around here, but if I could do that part time, if I sold or bought ONE house for us under my license, I'd more than make the money back obviously. Like, say I get my 3% for our house at the listing price... that's almost $5,000. In one sale. And I can guarantee you I can keep my crap together better than these idiots. Not to mention that as much as I hate to deal with the general public, I've had enough practice in my jobs that I can fake being super friendly if it means cash. And lots of it. The housing market will turn around eventually.