Re: OT: Is there any CCIE who earns $8K per hour?

Also, flip the coin and see how many "Agents" can actually decide to become
CCIE's and achieve it!

End of the day, its about satisfaction and sustainability. :-)

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Cyrus <cyrus.mgh_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Well ,it is not all about money ,some portion is about having a
> carrier and feel that's me with these abilities.
>
> You can always have your skills but money is not always there, bad
> things happen now and then ;)
>
>
> Cyrus
>
> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Radioactive Frog<pbhatkoti_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I'm sorry for this very OT but just wanted to share this nice little
> story
> > with the group!
> >
> > Last week I thought doing something crazy!
> > It wasn't about any IT related rip/ospf, bgp crap but the challenge was
> > selling my house without an agent !!!!!
> >
> > I spoke with a few friend about it and they advised me to use an agent as
> > they are professional.
> > Also slured that you are not qualified for doing this, you can oversell
> or
> > undersell it.
> >
> > That really gave me a little bit more challenge, make think that why
> can't I
> > do it.
> >
> > Got back home from work and did some googling. Within 3 hours of googling
> I
> > worked it out how to sell a property and how to eveaulate it.
> > I grabbed old data and made my comparison of what other properties were
> sold
> > in the same area for. I analysised 4-6 sold properties and finalized the
> > selling price.
> >
> > Since I did not have any experience, I wanted to double check the price
> with
> > a few agents. I ask for a quote from a few agents and did free evaulation
> > (cost me nothing). Their price and my calculated price was 99% same (I
> had
> > $10K more than what the agents advised the property selling price).
> >
> > Now I was confient enough that my property is not "Underpriced".
> >
> > On Wednesday, I put the property on the internet (on 6-8 websites).
> >
> > I started cleaning up the house and put my all routers and junks in
> > groundfloor store room. Tidy'd it up, removed all cables and books from
> > bedroom.
> >
> > Next day, I got about 13 emails from people who wanted to see the place.
> > I gave them appointment for saturday 10am-11am. out of 13 people 11
> people
> > were turned up.
> >
> > I was so shocked when two of them offered to buy the place on the
> advertised
> > amount.
> >
> > I sold it without an agent!! Agent normally charge here 2% of property
> price
> > + 1200 for advert. Actual advert cost me only $400.
> > Agent could have sold it for 10K less and could have taken $8K as a
> > commission.
> >
> > Total 18k benefit by just being curious and working on this challenge.
> >
> > Wow... $8k in less than 1 hour? - it was real quick money.
> >
> > My question to this list:
> > Why are we so crazy about CCIE and not looking for such occasion of
> making
> > some quick money?
> >
> > -------- after end of the day we all are after $$$$ -------
> >
> > I mean it's madness how agents are ripping off the people!...
> >
> > -frog
> >
> >
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