Lockbox Exchange February 23-26
Like a couple thousand other Twin Cities Realtors this week, I spent about half an hour in line at a suburban hotel ballroom exchanging my old electronic lockboxes for new ones.
Make that, two lines: one to turn in old lockboxes, and a second line to collect an equal number of new ones (the people filling all those new lockbox orders are pictured, above).
The trick to getting through quickly? (or at least, line #1).
Avoiding the line(s) with agents wheeling multiple, oversized suitcases full of old lockboxes.
New & Improved? Maybe
I feel the same way about new lockboxes that I do about software updates.
Namely, “new and improved” is often worse — and more complicated.
In this case, the new lockboxes sport two enhancements: 1) they’re bluetooth-enabled; and 2) they’re taller, with a bigger key chamber (the old ones would occasionally jam).
P.S.: I’m aware of at least one VERY successful local Realtor who — at least in their capacity as a listing agent — dispenses with electronic lockboxes altogether, and instead uses the old, highly reliable (and simple!) mechanical kind.
