I was one who applauded
HCN’s graphics changes as they were being
introduced, but you do seem to have overdone it with the March 20
issue, and not just in terms of graphics: Color the articles by
John Fayhee “yellow.”
According to Fayhee, Realtors are
nothing but ex-bartenders and/or day-laborers who got licensed
online with little effort or expense. (I wish I had known that
before I sat through all those tedious classes on law, appraisal,
ethics, business, etc., and surely before I sat for that daylong
examination. I wonder if this means I don’t have to take all
those update courses the Colorado Real Estate Commission keeps
insisting on. Maybe I can get a rebate on the costs I incurred for
books and office rentals and desk fees and insurance and
association membership and advertising and the heartache and
thousand natural shocks that real estate is heir to.)
Let’s get this straight: Professional Realtors are not
salespeople; they don’t buy or sell anything, not as
Realtors. Buyers buy; sellers sell. The job of the Realtor is to
bring an often stressful, confusing and hazardous process to a
mutually beneficial and satisfying conclusion.
OK,
I’ll grant you there are unprincipled Realtors; there are
lazy Realtors; there are Realtors who think of themselves as
salespeople. There are also beer-guzzling yahoos who think of
themselves as journalists.
Edward
Ashby
Delta, Colorado
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Is everyone a journalist?.
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