"Of the two leading real estate firms in our town — Adams Realty and Fitch Realty — Adams Realty is clearly superior. Adams has 40 real estate agents; in contrast, Fitch has 25, many of whom work only part-time. Moreover, Adams' revenue last year was twice as high as that of Fitch and included home sales that averaged $168,000, compared to Fitch's $144,000. Homes listed with Adams sell faster as well: ten years ago I listed my home with Fitch, and it took more than four months to sell; last year, when I sold another home, I listed it with Adams, and it took only one month. Thus, if you want to sell your home quickly and at a good price, you should use Adams Realty."
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
In the given letter which was written by homeowner to his friend, the homeowner suggests to his friend that if he wants to sell his home quick and at a good price, then out of Adams realty and Fitch Realty, Adams realty would be the one to choose. He suggests this based on factors such as number of agents, revenue and sales and time to sell the house. But the author states these statements without proper evidence.
First of All, the homeowner makes the assumption that more number of real estate agents is directly proportional to the quality of the real estate firm. However, we also have to consider the efficiency of agents rather than the total number. For Example, an efficient agent of Fitch realty can perform better than several agents of Adams realty which in turn affects the quality of the firm. If this is true, then the house owner’s argument is considerably weakened.
Secondly, the house owner also believes that averaging more in home sales is directly proportional to the ability of the firm to sell each house at a good price. The homeowner undermines the possibility where the average is high only due to a small portion of the houses whose prices have drastically increased the average of Adams realty. There is also a possibility that Adams realty has sold only a handful number of houses , though high in average sales but actually low when considered the fact that these houses were actually much more worth than the prices which they were actually sold at. In contrast, Fitch realty might have sold a large number of houses with reasonable price. If these possibilities are true, then the homeowner’s argument holds no water.
Finally, homeowner also makes an assumption that the real estate market from 10 years ago is comparable with the real estate market last year. It is possible that Fitch realty has improved a lot in the course of 10 years and actually solidified their strategies and upgraded their systems in such a way that currently they are selling houses in 2 weeks’ time after being listed. The demand in market has changed a lot, so it is a not viable to compare markets 10 years apart, which yields wrong results. If any of the above examples hold merit, it significantly weakens the house owners argument that Adams Realty can sell the houses faster than Fitch Realty.
In Conclusion, the argument as it stands is flawed. However, If the house owner can provide more details and statistics in a much more researched manner it will be helpful to evaluate the claims of house owner which as of now stand unwarranted.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, then, for example, in conclusion, in contrast, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 7.0 257% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 1.00243902439 599% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 9.0 6.8 132% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 3.15609756098 539% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 29.0 5.60731707317 517% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 52.0 33.7804878049 154% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 3.97073170732 201% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2131.0 965.302439024 221% => Less number of characters wanted.
No of words: 445.0 196.424390244 227% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.78876404494 4.92477711251 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.59293186426 3.73543355544 123% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.4651699089 2.65546596893 93% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 106.607317073 197% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.47191011236 0.547539520022 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 665.1 283.868780488 234% => syllable counts are too long.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.45097560976 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 1.53170731707 261% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 4.33902439024 161% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 1.07073170732 467% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.482926829268 207% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 3.36585365854 89% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 8.94146341463 201% => Too many sentences.
Sentence length: 24.0 22.4926829268 107% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.3787321915 43.030603864 143% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.388888889 112.824112599 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.7222222222 22.9334400587 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.77777777778 5.23603664747 149% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 3.83414634146 130% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 1.69756097561 295% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 3.70975609756 270% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 1.13902439024 527% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.09268292683 49% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.268117123393 0.215688989381 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0804140654398 0.103423049105 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0799841791378 0.0843802449381 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.151010336069 0.15604864568 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0860216822884 0.0819641961636 105% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.2329268293 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 61.2550243902 91% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 10.3012195122 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.8 11.4140731707 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.91 8.06136585366 98% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 40.7170731707 214% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 11.4329268293 114% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.9970731707 105% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.0658536585 108% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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