Comments on: For sale: attitude

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:37:14 +0000

Great ad and if it is getting that much attention, then the ad is doing its job.

I know her and she is a dedicated and hard working girl, will go the extra mile for all her clients and almost always smiling.

By: Am an angent

Am an angent — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 23:22:26 +0000

Correction: The gazette allows you to post a photo of a home, many of these agents just think that their looks sell.
Correction: Many of these agents post photos from the dinosaur years

By: mahendra singh

mahendra singh — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:00:54 +0000

I used to do a lot of newspaper display advertising work, design, sales, etc.

Real estate was a big money-maker for my paper, and all the agents, sometime in the early 90s, I think, got on the headshot-in-ad band wagon. Some of them looked pretty creepy, which always livened things up in the ad dept.

I do think it works for the simple reason that a human face, no matter what flavor, makes the eye retard its optical scan of a crowded page just slightly and in theory, every split second counts.

For the same reason magazine covers with faces usually sell better, esp. if the face has at least 2 inches between the eyes (honest) and best of all, if it's Princess Diana.

By: Steve W.

Steve W. — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:04:56 +0000

As I've said before Londono Group boss Tatiana Londono is the world's most obnoxious real estate agent. What does that get her? First she gets her television show seen nationally(courtesy of Debbie Travis), now she's on weekly with Tommy Schnurmacher on CJAD radio. At least in local Montreal media, sometimes talent is secondary. At least real estate agent Mary Lamey(Mary in the postings on this thread) left the Londono Group. The worst television program I've seen in my whole life, was the locally produced program 'Lifestyles' hosted by Ann Shatilla about a dozen years ago. That show got Ann a television on-air job in Los Angeles. Now she covers entertainment(including sometimes critiqueing) for Associated Press Television in Los Angeles. I also remember Ann as 'supposely' a hard news reporter for several years on CFCF News. Just because it's local Montreal television talent, doesn't mean it's any good(Ann Shatilla now also heard on CJAD radio talking daily hollywood gossip from LA, & hosting a weekly syndicated Hollywood Trend Report program).

By: jean.naimard

jean.naimard — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:57:09 +0000

Ah, yes. Real-Estate agents. Always at the forefront to make sure houses remain unaffordable for most people.

And before you say that they maximize the sellers’ equity value, I’ll just point out how well that little game worked out in the USA…

(OTOH, I guess that here, we’re pretty impervious to their oxdung, since here is the only place in North-America where house prices haven't crashed)…

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:28:23 +0000

BTW - The Gazette only lets agents run their photos, not pictures of the houses. La Presse actually charges more if you want to run your photo but lets you run a picture of the property for cheap.

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:23:04 +0000

Omi-San and Homer, believe me when I tell you that a good real-estate agent will save you money when you're buying and get you more money when you're selling. Just don't choose your agent by the size of her . . . hair!
As for goofy marketing angles, have any of you seen the agent in the 10-gallon Stetson known to one and all as cowboyd? It's kinda catchy.

P.S. There's no photo on my sign.

http://www.marylamey.blogspot.com

By: Jules

Jules — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:14:18 +0000

lol that's my teacher's girlfriend. I assure you she does not look as scary in real life.

By: Gilles

Gilles — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:45:53 +0000

Very Tacky..... incredibly silly advert... wow. I was on their real estate website and I am sure the people who work there are nice and everything but that image is so cheesy and funny. HAHA hilarious.

By: jean.naimard

jean.naimard — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:54:27 +0000

Well, I know some guys who would not mind having their arses picked, even by a woman…

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:50:59 +0000

Many of the Londono Group signs are like that. I've heard Tatiana on radio & TV before - never heard someone so self-absorbed before.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:55:58 +0000

How is this different from choosing a TV news anchor?

By: Maria Gatti

Maria Gatti — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:03:51 +0000

Just so you buy in Villeray! (... or just south of the market, in western Petite-Patrie).

Although she is certainly an attractive woman, she looks like a Dom. "You WILL buy this condo!" barked Ilse the She-Wolf of real-estate speculation... Princess, she may not be very accessible, but may well inflict a handicap with her steel-toed stilleto boots.

By: Homer

Homer — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:38:37 +0000

Real estate agent is a waste of time, get yourself an attorney. Much cheaper since they work by the hour ;-).

By: Omi-san

Omi-san — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:37:13 +0000

Like travel agents, real estate agents have become obsolete. You are basically paying someone a comission to use the internet in your place.

By: Jim J.

Jim J. — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:21:38 +0000

Yes, she looks as if she's ready to kick your ass if you don't buy this condo.

By: Kirti Patel

Kirti Patel — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:22:30 +0000

She scares me.

By: Pepper Boxer

Pepper Boxer — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:01:00 +0000

In her defence though, it's not just the women. I know of a local guy whose last name is Bond. One of his ads features him in a dinner jacket, and yes, he's actually holding a gun. What that has to do with real estate, I don't know.

But yes, the Saturday Gazette features lots of pics of attractive women who are obviously investing a lot of money in clothes and hair products.

By: Allisonshine

Allisonshine — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:55:52 +0000

Ha ha. I pass that sign almost everyday and am relieved to know that I'm not the only one who thinks "attitude" when I see this sign. My 4 year old asked me yesterday why that "scary lady" (his words, not mine) was in the window.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:35:03 +0000

Funny, I JUST saw a similar one, for a different female agent with, I think, a different firm. I couldn't believe it. It's moronic to think that anyone would chose an agent on that basis. But as Vahan notes, it clearly works. And not just for male clients, I suspect.