College or not, anyone involved in deals involving hundreds of thousands and sometimes millions of dollars should not be writing emails that look like a text message written by a 12 year old. Perhaps I'm selecting the wrong measure of quality, but if a realtor were to send me an email punctuated by a plethora of smiley faces and three periods at the end of sentences, I would find another realtor. I say this based on experience, and the one that communicates with email that appears to be written by an adult turns out to be the one that doesn't annoy me by not listening and showing me houses I have no interest in.

I was just displeased as you were I'm sure to find out that a billionaire used smiley faces too

http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/53358dd4ecad04e75a8...

I'm not seeing "a plethora of smiley faces and three periods at the end of sentences" in that image... :)

"Thanks !! Eric" nearly sent me over the edge. Did he ever moonlight as a realtor?

It doesn't look to me like he's discriminating against realtors for not having gone to college; he's bashing them for actual demonstrated poor literacy, which is a lot harder to excuse than not going to college. (If you meant to instead make a more reasonable complaint about him painting with an overly-broad brush, you should have said so.)

Yes - I applaud them for being successful professionals without going to college, but college shouldn't be necessary for basic literacy.

Basic literacy is perfect grammar and spelling now?