I wanted to thank a couple of really gentlemanly sorts of people I met lately, both of whom have good skills I wish I had more of. The first was a fellow I take to be the sort of king of the friendly soft sell, a real gentleman. His name is Mike Mehan, and he’s the founder of RealtyStar, a reseller for AgentOffice and some other software products. I spoke to Mike the other day and he knew within few minutes that I was outside his service area, yet he spent about twenty minutes with me on the phone anyway, having a great discussion not only about his software, but about business ethics, etc. He mentioned that when he started his company one of his first office policies was “We’ll never lie to a customer”.

I told him about my own motto, “Honesty isn’t the best policy. Honesty is the ONLY policy.” I thought it was a paraphrase of Nute Rockne. Turns out it was Vince Lombardi.

Imagine my surprise.

Anyway, really nice guy number two that I met recently was Jeff Brown, author of Bawld Guy Talking, a new blog about real estate investing. Jeff was nice enough to blogroll me recently, and then he told me this: “Your content is always worth the visit. I’d call this blog Web 2.1 because it sure doesn’t fit with the rest of us – it’s too good.” What a friendly compliment. Then over on his site, check out the title he put in the link back to my site. Now that was really thoughtful as heck.

The other neat thing about Jeff is that he knows lots of stuff that I don’t about crunching investment numbers. I hope he uses his powers for good, because if he doesn’t, I wouldn’t be able to catch him! That’s unfortunate, really, since obviously that means there’s a fairly substantial potential client base I might be overlooking. Moreover I suspect ramping up wouldn’t be rocket science (with no offense to Jeff), just something one needs to spend time on.

Anyway, I know this posts about some really nice guys comes right after promising to be on topic about real estate, and some of you are probably thinking, “What do nice guys have to do with real estate?” But there are some really great folks in this business, and I think it’s always appropriate, if not strictly topical, to encourage that.

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