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REAL ESTATE BROKERAGE
FIRM ...SAFE ISLAND REALTORS
(license
inactive)
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People are My Business!! |
| Your sense
of fairness runs too deep!...what is that supposed to mean? Is being
unwilling to compromise the best interest of your client "too fair"?
...SO I BECAME A BROKER & set my own office policy! |
DREAM HOME OR SHIPWRECK!
A SAFE
CRUISE IS POSSIBLE!
In 1991, the broker of
a large real estate firm asked Glenda to leave stating, "YOUR SENSE
OF FAIRNESS RUNS TOO DEEP FOR THIS ENVIRONMENT, you really need to
move your license to an office with your point of view!"
She moved her license to an office with an atmosphere more conducive
to fairness. In the meantime, Glenda began to pursue a Broker’s License
–she was successful in early 1993. She then created a SAFE OFFICE
‘POLICY and ENVIRONMENT’. |
After the name was chosen
Glenda discovered two ironies. First –the word SAFE worked out to
be acronym for –"SINGLE AGENCY FOR EVERYONE’. The second irony was
a timely favor –the Texas Real Estate Commission reconsidered their
position on the AGENCY LAW.
The Agency issue had never really been an ‘ISSUE’ for other real estate
brokerage firms until the Texas Real Estate Commission made it one.
The Agency Law has to do with being unable to provide professional
and undivided loyalties to more than one party in a transaction. This
is obvious even to attorneys. Under COMMON and BIBLICAL LAW "No Servant
Can Serve Two Masters"…Luke 16:13.
Since Glenda had always been a consumer advocate, counselor and educator,
she could not see the fairness in withholding information pertinent
to the decision making process. She began to research Real Estate
Law and found that buyers could Legally Represented and be fully informed
in a real estate transaction. Thus in 1989, she became a PIONEER in
eastern quadrant of the Dallas -Fort Worth Metroplex in the practice
of the honoring the "equal rights of loyalty and representation for
buyer or seller i.e. the "Agency Issue". She began to ‘Represent Buyers’
before ‘Buyer Representation was cool’ –much like the song "she was
country before country was cool’.
Her Consumer Advocacy position caused her to butt heads’ with other
real estate agents along the way. As most people, real estate agents
do not like change –besides they did not know how to explain it to
their sellers.
When counseling a client, her approach is –she will not lead anyone
in a direction that she would not go if she were "in his or her shoes".
Many times this approach has been at great personal and business sacrifice,
but consumers have a right to be fully informed in all decisions.
Her philosophy is –‘people are intelligent
–give them information, options and guidance' they will be able to
make a decision’. People do not care what you know until they know
that you care.
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