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The original was posted on /r/perth by /u/AnomicAge on 2024-09-30 05:25:11+00:00.

Keyword make, not earn.

The other day I overheard a customer talking on the phone about how she made 70 grand on the sale of a riverside property that sold for way above asking price where by her own admission she hardly had to do anything. As crass as it sounds she is a regular enough customer for me to confidently say she seems like a complete bimbecille.

I don’t know how much work goes into things behind the scenes, I assume there must be a fair amount of paperwork they need to do, but I would be surprised if a sale like this didn’t equate to something obscene like $500 an hour.

It’s not only scandalous that people with virtually no qualifications can make more than doctors, the real scandal is that they have an incentive to manipulate people and how much they make often hinges directly on their ability to schmooze schmucks and exploiting peoples fear and ignorance.

There is such a cult of personality that it almost seems like a self parody with these realtors big ugly mugs plastered onto garish signs ruining views, and now apparently you can’t even tuck into a pizza without being met with one of these vulturous money grubs, just when you thought they could not get any greasier.

I guess they will continue to exist for as long as people continue to pay for their services (even today when there are sites that can do most of what they do) but why does the industry seem like the wild west full of cowboys with little professionalism or regulation?

I know there are a lot of realtors who never make it and I’ve heard tales of realtors with integrity but none of them deserve to make more than brain surgeons or pilots or even bloody social workers or anyone who actually makes meaningful contributions to society.

I’m still struggling to swallow the fact that housing - remembering that shelter is a necessity and human right according to the UNs declaration of which Australia is a signatory - has been allowed to become a big game of monopoly which incentivizes property hoarding and torments renters. Evictions aren’t even supposed to be legal under the UNs declaration at least not until suitable alternative living arrangements have been made… Australian domestic laws seem to conveniently gloss over that part of it.

While we’re at it, there should be at least one nationalised supermarket chain that provides the barebone essentials rather than a predatory oligopoly gouging struggling Australian’s during their hour of need in a cost of living crisis. Or is that commie shit?

Anyway back to realtors - fuck em.