Good Realtors have Passion

Good Realtors have Passion

January 2nd, 2010

Like all our fellow realtors, we know that there are all different calibers of realtors. But when you really think about it, what makes a certain percentage of realtors stand above the crowd is PASSION.

My wife Joyce and I opened our first office in 2000, then 10 months later opened a branch office. Later this month will mark the 10th anniversary of us working six days a week - we try to take Wednesdays off together but often spend half the day on our cell phones - and answering our phones 6am to 9pm every day of the year. Yes, I know what you're thinking. We must be crazy to be accessible 15 hours a day, right?

But, you see, real estate is our life, our passion. Our kids are grown and gone and now we have the freedom of a 20-something childless couple, although our combined ages is 120. To avoid being kicked in the shins, I won't say which one of us is older.

We are both early risers, so having our cell phones unplugged and turned on by 6:00 in the morning is no problem. We find that many of our clients, stuck in rush hour traffic around Philly or NYC, make use of this time to call us and discuss the transaction we're working on together or the properties they want to tour on the weekend.

Nighttime phone calls don't crimp our lifestyle either. Okay, we may be in the grocery store or a restaurant, but we've closed deals standing next to the broccoli and cauliflower display. Our norm, however, is that we're sitting on the couch together watching a cable movie or nature program. Folks like to call us around that time after they've put their kids to bed and they finally have some quiet time.

In the warm weather months when the daylight hours last longer, we do have one other distraction in the evenings. We jump in my pickup truck, select a town, and cruise up and down neighborhood streets seeing "what's new". We notice new construction and homes newly put up for sale. We talk about it like two excited teenagers. And since the weather is warm, families are outside in their yards and we wave and our real estate signs on the truck doors get noticed. More than once someone has waved us down to talk about the current real estate market. That's social networking in its purest form, I guess.

I know there are many, many other realtors across the country with passion for their trade. Obviously, any realtor who takes the time to read and contribute regularly to Active Rain has that passion. So do those who read the real estate trade magazines from cover to cover. And those continually participating in some sort of continuing education and earning additional designations.

To all of you, I tip my hat. Together, we've taken real estate sales from being a job to a profession we're proud of. And love.

- Mountain Man and City Girl

http://www.MountainManandCityGirl.com