St Louis Real Estate Company - Discount/Full-Service

St Louis' Largest Discount/Full-Service Real Estate And Mortgage Company

Thank you for visiting our website. I'm Bob Mitchell, president & founder of ValueList Real Estate Services, Inc.. ValueList is St. Louis real estate's discount/full-service real estate and mortgage company. I'd like to tell you a bit more about us.

The idea for ValueList Real Estate Services, Inc., was born at Cardwell's Bar in Clayton Missouri in '94. At the time I was Vice-President of Clayton Mortgage Associates. Bill Beezley, who is president of Clayton Mortgage Associates, and I had stopped in for an afterwork cocktail. While there we met a mutual acquaintance who broached the subject of what would happen to a certain large St. Louis real estate company if somebody were to form a discount real estate company or become a flat fee Realtor? This gentleman's belief was that the larger company would implode into itself & be forced out of business.

At this point, our conversation was simply bar talk, but a seed of inspiration was planted in my mind. It was one of those moments where a light bulb went on. While the guy at the bar was not serious about forming such a St Louis discount real estate company, the idea, with some modifications, was exploding in my head. That night I went home and couldn't sleep. All night long I was doing math on my bedroom ceiling. It seemed to me that if you took the vindictive nature out of the guy's idea & replaced it with a more positive approach to selling St. Louis real estate that it should be able to work!

In order to better explain why this idea had such appeal to me, allow me to provide some additional background. At Clayton Mortgage it was my responsibility whenever a transaction ran into difficulty to figure out what was wrong & to fix it. In that position I came to realize that more often than not, the root of most of the problems that these transactions were having laid at the foot of one of the St Louis real estate agents involved in the transaction. It dawned on me that real estate is the only 'profession' where you can go to school for three weeks, take a test and then call yourself a 'professional'. In other words, if you're too ill-tempered, ill-mannered & irresponsible to hold down a job anywhere else, you can always gravitate towards St Louis real estate. That's not to say that there aren't good St. Louis real estate agents out there who do a fine job, but the field definitely has too many people who simply don't know what they are doing.

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