Do not call it old school call it WRONG school!

A common excuse offered when listing or purchase contracts land on a manager’s desk with I’s not dotted or T’s not crossed is the agent is old school; this is how the agent does business and has always done business, period.  It is as if being licensed for some extended period of time is a valid reason to not worry about having all the signatures or addendum/extensions/counters in writing.

To those agents who would try and pass off their mistakes as just an old school way of doing business I would say, WRONG. Instead of old school the correct description would be wrong school. You were not properly taught or you ignore the instruction you received early on. The fact that it is the way you have always done it and nothing bad has happened as a result, does not excuse the fact that you are doing it, whatever it is, incorrectly.

Real professional old school agents have good reason to feel insulted when compared to sloppy, unprofessional agents who just do enough to get by and do so under the flag of being old school. There is a right way to do this business and it falls on both old school and new school agents to see that their business is being handled correctly.