Metro Broker's Kay Watson -NAR Protects Realtor Privileges

BrokerIPTV  : We are talking with Kay Watson today from Metro Brokers and Kay we love always talking with you. You have got so much going on in your involved with so many communities and boards and particularly you work with National Association of Realtors, so that where I would like the start. How does what happens politically with the National Association of Realtors benefit me on this tree?

Kay Watson: I think there are two things that first come to my mind. I am an independent contractor and that's one of the privileges as a realtor. We can work as an independent contractor that seems to be threatened on the hill over and over and if it was not for work the National Association of Realtors and their political activity in Washington DC, we stand a chance that, that could go away any day and I think that would the way we work and if we could not be independent contractors the whole structure would have to change, and I don't want that ever have to change. I think the other thing is mortgage interest deduction and we think of that affecting the consumer, yes. But it also affects me, myself as a realtor, because if that mortgage interest deduction goes away and then what's going to be the incentive for home ownership. Because that is the one tax deduction and any time, we have a deficit in the government. They always are looking for a way and that's one of the first places they always look.

BrokerIPTV : You started in this business and your are selling homes in just like every other broker making your away, but at some point you got involved, I mean heavily involved, national level, local level committees, standards. Why is it that you when kind of above and beyond what the regular realtor would do?

Kay Watson: I have always had the philosophy that I needed to give back and when I realized the opportunity that being a realtor and being a member of the National Association of realtors, my local in-state associations, what that afforded me. I wanted to give back and the more I got involved the more, I wanted to get involved and I can tell you that I did my involvement has just been an incredible experience. I have gained so much more than I have ever given back and the benefit the bi-product of that is, when I need to send a referral to some one on the east coast, I have met enough people that I can either get a contact, so I can send a personal referral knowing that my clients are going to be handled the way I would want them to be handled and then the another bi-product is, I do get referrals. I never have gotten involved thinking about the bottom line in the business. Because my philosophy is, if you are looking at the dollar sign, when you wakeup in the morning, you need to get out of the business. Because it is a service business and we are here to serve our clients and to work as well as we can with our peers.

BrokerIPTV  : Kay, thanks so much, I love the philosophy, great meeting you, thanks for being a part of the program.

Kay Watson: Thank you.         

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