I've been thinking just recently that we have several young folk on the forum who give good advice about all sorts of things, without pushing their own barrow or promoting their businesses.
We've just paid our son to get our rent advert onto re.com. He can do this because he works for an agency. He would do it for nothing, but we are paying him because we would pay another agent the same, so why not pay him. It means he earns more, and is taxed more, but it is all above board (and hardly going to make him rich).
He works for an agency so any business he may gain from giving advice on this forum doesn't benefit him directly. But there are a few here who I believe have their own businesses and I wonder if they ever pick up management from forum members.
I'm thinking that we should be giving these members our business. Of course, if you are happy with your PM, change is not on the cards, but for those who are not happy, I'm wondering how many actually would take their business from the slack manager and hand it to one of the forum members?
I know there are a few who post here and I cannot think of names but I know Lura is/was one and Lil Skater is another who has been contributing for years, (reading over her mother's shoulder in the early days and putting in her 2 cents worth), and I believe has started her own agency.
I'm thinking both these ladies run their own "ship". Perhaps they don't need more business, but I'm just thinking if we take our loan business to the resident forum finance brokers, do we also hand our properties to the resident PMs to manage?
If I didn't self-manage, I would find a forum member who did it rather than take a chance on someone who might be worse than the one I'm leaving.
So, I'd be keen to know if Lura or Lil Skater have actually had any business come from here? I would like to think this would be a nice return for somebody willing to give advice and help out strangers.
I know there are others, but Lura and Lil Skater are the only ones whose names spring to mind just now, so I'd be keen to hear from you... Lura... Lil???
We've just paid our son to get our rent advert onto re.com. He can do this because he works for an agency. He would do it for nothing, but we are paying him because we would pay another agent the same, so why not pay him. It means he earns more, and is taxed more, but it is all above board (and hardly going to make him rich).
He works for an agency so any business he may gain from giving advice on this forum doesn't benefit him directly. But there are a few here who I believe have their own businesses and I wonder if they ever pick up management from forum members.
I'm thinking that we should be giving these members our business. Of course, if you are happy with your PM, change is not on the cards, but for those who are not happy, I'm wondering how many actually would take their business from the slack manager and hand it to one of the forum members?
I know there are a few who post here and I cannot think of names but I know Lura is/was one and Lil Skater is another who has been contributing for years, (reading over her mother's shoulder in the early days and putting in her 2 cents worth), and I believe has started her own agency.
I'm thinking both these ladies run their own "ship". Perhaps they don't need more business, but I'm just thinking if we take our loan business to the resident forum finance brokers, do we also hand our properties to the resident PMs to manage?
If I didn't self-manage, I would find a forum member who did it rather than take a chance on someone who might be worse than the one I'm leaving.
So, I'd be keen to know if Lura or Lil Skater have actually had any business come from here? I would like to think this would be a nice return for somebody willing to give advice and help out strangers.
I know there are others, but Lura and Lil Skater are the only ones whose names spring to mind just now, so I'd be keen to hear from you... Lura... Lil???
