{"id":361,"date":"2014-12-31T03:36:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T11:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/?p=361"},"modified":"2015-01-09T00:59:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T08:59:30","slug":"does-the-word-mandate-have-any-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"Does the word &#8216;mandate&#8217; have any worth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ironore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-362\" src=\"http:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ironore-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"ironore\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ironore-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ironore-190x143.jpg 190w, https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ironore-60x45.jpg 60w, https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ironore-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ironore.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I think the word &#8216;mandate&#8217; is thrown around so much, it has lost its value. I keep hearing, &#8220;I am a mandate, she is a mandate, I know a mandate, I am direct to a mandate, I only work with mandates&#8230;&#8221; etc!<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever asked a &#8216;mandate&#8217; to provide a mandate letter? I did that once and they could not prove that they have been authorized. On another occasion, a buyer told me, they revoked the mandate&#8217;s authority a long time ago. In yet another case, a broker was cutting ICPOs left and right without having any mandate authority. The buyer found out and was furious!<\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell, I think this word doesn&#8217;t have much worth and people should not be so stuck up on wanting to only work with a mandate or believe that a person truly is one. After all, a mandate is still a broker \/ agent at the end of the day, and we have so much more to worry about in this tough business, don&#8217;t we?<\/p>\n<p>Happy 2015 &#8211; may you fly high!<\/p>\n<p>-m-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think the word &#8216;mandate&#8217; is thrown around so much, it has lost its value. I keep hearing, &#8220;I am a mandate, she is a mandate, I know a mandate, I am direct to a mandate, I only work with mandates&#8230;&#8221; etc! Have you ever asked a &#8216;mandate&#8217; to provide a mandate letter? I did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238,239,15,240,130,11,13,12,191],"tags":[212,213,118,209,216,234,235,208,237,233,205,236,206,207,215,214,210,211],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}