I am no expert!! (WHO ever is???)

I am no expert!!  (WHO ever is???)

I am an intern at a fully compliant real estate company. This company:  SEEFF Properties, holds a valid, current Fidelity Fund Certificate (FFC) from the Estate Agency Affairs Board, which is their licence to trade. I too have a valid intern Fidelity Fund Certificate, (therefore I am LEGALLY BLONDe 🙂 and participating in the Seeff SMART Acadamy training programme. (It is highly recommended, read more about it here.)

 As part of an assignment interns have to keep a reflective journal about their dealings with the code of conduct  and the activities that we engaged in, the lessons learnt and challenges.

Reflective journal of a legal blonde

 

Code of conduct 5.3: An estate agent shall not claim to be an expert or to have specialised knowledge in respect of any estate agency service if, in fact, he is not such an expert or does not have such special knowledge;

Activity: Go refresh a stale listing of a plot on outskirts of Nelspruit

Challenge: May 2013 ( 6 week old Rookie agent Lizl Pretorius comes from JHB and has no knowledge what so ever regarding farming)

Lesson learnt: I exhorted myself to act friendly and professional, irrespective of my incompetence, and noting everything possible in order to explain it to the best of my ability in adverts and to prospective buyers. I acknowledged my status to the sellers, who treated me with the greatest of respect. As a new agent I am very eager to learn about all real estate functions, therefore did not heed to the advice of my principal to rather ‘stay out of the farms, until I have learned to sell houses.’ Nonetheless, I do know more than I did before, but have felt quite awkward 4 months down the line, when taking prospective buyers, as I simply do not have the knowledge!!

I do like a challenge so will attempt it again in the distant future …read more about how I lost my car keys on a hilltop here!!

 

Question: What real estate function has made your , uh ,not so blonde hair ?, think twice??