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

Usually agents charge 6 percent

Tony

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 5:14 AM, 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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Received on Sat Jun 27 2009 - 08:30:05 ART