{"id":128,"date":"2012-02-20T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T09:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bettinasettlesrealty.com\/Blogspot\/?p=128"},"modified":"2016-06-16T17:21:49","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T17:21:49","slug":"our-office-does-not-pay-a-referral-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/2012\/02\/20\/our-office-does-not-pay-a-referral-fee\/","title":{"rendered":"Our office does not pay a referral fee!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reading my emails I came across a posting from Peggy Chirico <\/strong>called “I Don’t Take Referrals!” <\/a>and it reminded me\u00a0of several conversations I had with REALTOR\u2019s that where located in an areas I had a referrals for.<\/p>\n

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As I called and talked with the Principal Broker, to find out which of her agents to send the referral too, I was surprised to hear her say that her office is not paying a referral fee for referrals. They never have and never will. She informed me that it is not necessary for her office to pay a referral fee; they have enough work coming in to keep them busy.<\/p>\n

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OK\u2026..I understand\u2026.and I moved on to another office in the area, which was happy to pay a referral fee for a listing referral in the area.<\/p>\n

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In our office we love receiving referrals and we do pay a referral fee to the agent who gives us the referral at the time of closing. I do not see anything wrong with this. When we have a referral for other areas, I am gladly willing to send the referral to a more local agent.<\/p>\n

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I see a referral given or received a chance to build a relationship for live and a potential for future referrals and that is the true value of a referral.<\/p>\n

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There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can measure values.\u00a0 ~Author Unknown<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading my emails I came across a posting from Peggy Chirico called “I Don’t Take Referrals!” and it reminded me\u00a0of several conversations I had with REALTOR\u2019s that where located in an areas I had a referrals for.   As I called and talked with the Principal Broker, to find out which of her agents to … Continue reading Our office does not pay a referral fee!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commitment","category-inspiration","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1854,"href":"https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/1854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}