Everyone has a different view of the individuals in the real estate industry.  One thing I know for sure, however, is that when an agent’s real estate marketing efforts pay off, they show how much they care about the people in the communities they serve.

And, they don’t just care about the people buying and selling real estate – they care about everyone in the community, and they’re really a very charitable bunch.

For example, I have a number of clients who donate a portion of their real estate commission to their clients’ favorite charity.  But, I wondered how concerned real estate companies and professionals are in general about helping those in need.  I was impressed with what I found. 

Doing a search on Google, I found a lot of articles and blog posts about individuals and companies lending a helping hand in their communities:

• A Century 21 office in Michigan took a cue from Oprah Winfrey and started their own version of the Big Give.

• A boy with a terminal disease had his wish fulfilled due to the donations area offices of Realty Executives made to the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Northern Illinois.

Then, I started to notice that a lot of the search results came from an agent’s real estate blog on ActiveRain, so I dropped in to see what was happening.  I did a search for the word charity, and was going to use the results as examples in this post.  Unfortunately, I was not entirely successful, but I have included a few below:

• An office of ERA in New Jersey was collecting donations for the Make a Wish Foundation.

• A husband/wife real estate team promoted their local charity Duck Race in South Carolina.

• An agent in Michigan talked about the funds he was helping to raise for Habitat for Humanity.

• One agent was even promoting an event that had something to do with Shaving Your Head for Charity!

Are you wondering why I didn’t list the charitable posts on ActiveRain?  The reason is because the list is much much too long!! 

There are 1000 posts that contain the word Charity, and 490 posts about Habitat for Humanity.

I know that there are going to be a lot of people participating in Blog Action Day who are faced with circumstances much worse than we have here in the U.S.  But, when you think about what one person can do, just think about all of the real estate agents around the country that are doing whatever they can to help their clients — and their communities.