But I respectfully disagree with your first example (you as the agent giving feedback about clutter and the dog). Here’s why…

If someone can’t hear the truth about their house and, in your example, would rather not get their feelings hurt nor listen to their agent and leave it messy (which will hinder the sale), then I don’t want them as clients in the first place.

And yes, I know that someone may read this, but I don’t mind and here’s why…

The clients I work with are typically very honest, blunt and don’t want/need BS – just like me. That’s why they hire me and why we get along.

If they want someone to lie to them or beat around the bush in order to not hurt their feelings while hindering the sale of their house or a purchase of one, that’s fine – go hire someone else that doesn’t understand their true purpose as a Realtor nor how important little details such as clutter are and how much $ it can cost their clients.

I don’t do it because it is “out there” every where.

Right now in Word I have 2 posts going, and will probably never post them but it is a good vent for me.

…or maybe I will.

That’s precisely why I changed the way I use Twitter, and the reason I don’t use Facebook for my business. You become immediately associated with the nonsense that somebody tweets on their site or posts on their wall. Talk about an immediate credibility killer…

Twitter for me is now a micro-blog…I use it to broadcast my blog posts, and as an effective way to blast out a few quick updates that wouldn’t warrant a “full” blog post (pictures, price reductions, etc..)

But after I had to embarrassingly explain some f*bombs that were full view on my site via somebody else’s twitter feed, that was enough for me. It’s now…

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Chuck

I have had to disassociate myself from a few people who used colorful language or made offensive statements.

I wouldn’t want to be seen in public with someone like that and the same goes for online.