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Interviewer:  Today, we are talking with Rohn Goldstein, CEO of the South Metro Denver Realtors Association, and Rohn welcome to the show.

Rohn Goldstein:  Thank you.

Interviewer:  Hey, we're talking about what a Realtor® is, you know, it's a term that everybody uses and some people don't know that there is a difference between a realtor spelled with a little 'r' and realtor with a capital "R"

Rohn Goldstein:  Actually there is not a difference, because there is no Realtor with a little 'r',

Interviewer:  Yeah.

Rohn Goldstein:  There are real estate agents and there are those people who are Realtors® which means they have joined The National Association of Realtors.  It also means that they have joined the Colorado Association of Realtors and their local association of Realtors, as in mine: The South Metro Denver Realtor Association.  So, whenever anybody joins, it's called the tri-party agreement, they agree that they are going to join on all three levels

Interviewer:  What the consumer wants to know, what's the difference between a Realtor® and a real estate agent?

Rohn Goldstein:  I think that's a great question.  To me, I liken it to a doctor or a lawyer. Would you want somebody who says, you know, I will cut your head open, but I don't subscribe to any ethical behavior.  Well effectively, when you're hiring a real estate agent who is not a Realtor®, that's exactly what you are doing.  You are hiring somebody that does not subscribe to any code of ethics

Interviewer:  Yeah.  Why are organizations important to Realtors® and to the industry and consumers in general? 

Rohn Goldstein:  For a variety of reasons; Number one: those organizations work, not only like I said, to provide codes of ethics, rules that the people can abide by, rules that consumers can hold them accountable to, but Number two: those groups, like ours, become amazing advocates for the consumer, right now, just like in several times in the past few years Congress or people who work for a variety of government agencies have thought that the easiest way to get money is to eliminate the interest deduction for homes, quite frankly we fight like the Dickens, because we think that that's the number one advantage for most consumers, is their ability to take that one item off their taxes, but there's a lot of other items, as well, that happen all the time, and so that advocacy we think is incredibly important.

Interviewer:  You know, there are a bunch of consumers out there that do regular searches on the Internet for properties, and they are very well educated.  They know the neighborhoods, they know the price per square foot, they know homes, they know comparisons and comparables, and they say to themselves, you know, why should I use a real estate agent, let alone someone who is a Realtor®, your answer to that would be?

Rohn Goldstein:  Well, I liken it, once more, to that medical situation, you know, I found it pretty easy to look up my diagnosis for all different kinds of physical ailments on the computer. And you know that it gives tons of information. And you know how many times it's been right?  Almost none.  You know, I think it's good to have second eyes looking at things.  I think it's why lawyers say, you would be a fool to have yourself as a client.  I think you ought to have other opinions, I think you ought to have knowledge, I think that you ought to have people who see things in a different way, and can give you information.  Now the decision is still yours as a consumer,

Interviewer:  Yeah.

Rohn Goldstein:  But the more information you have and the more skills you have behind you, the better you are going to be.

Interviewer:  Rohn thanks.  I appreciated you being here.

Rohn Goldstein:  Thank you.

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