Coffee and Confessions of a REALTOR(R)

I just love getting up and sipping on my favorite cup of coffee grabthe laptop and walk out to my back patio and just start planning my week. I live in Keller TX just outside of Fort Worth surrounded by Southlake, Roanoke, North Richland Hills, Grapevine. Just between DFW airport and the Alliance Corridor. I am a broker/owner of Texas Sold Team Realty,llc in the heart of Keller, TX. I have all the benefits of being in a big city, but live where you might think is the back woods. I love it here and since I went to 17 schools before I grew up from Hawaii to VA I have a pretty good idea of what the rest of the country is all about. Settled here about 17 years ago. So, enough about myself lets talk about real estate the career that is.

It is almost of end of month and that means all the crazy stuff will happen. Not all bad but it just has a way of making things get a little more interesting to say the least. I wanted to start this blog because I thought it might be helpful to share what all really happens in a life of a REALTOR(R).

Most people, I believe don't really know what all we really do for a living. Sure it looks great driving around looking at houses. I have had many of my clients over the years express to me that they would find it a lot of fun because they love looking at homes. That is a good part, of what it is we do, but that is far from what the job really encompasses.

I fondly refer to it as being on a "job interview" about 7 days a week and on some days more than one a day. See, from the time we pick up the phone, answer an email or chat with someone at the check out stand we our on a job interview. Some times, we want the job so bad we will take it even when we know this is not going to be the dream job we were hoping for. See, we are self employed that really means, "we are unemployed with an attitude". I have said this for years and to be completely honest that is exactly what it is really about.

Second major part to the job, is we get fired on a regular basis. See once our clients have signed and the transaction is closed and funded we are once again unemployed. I don't mean we stop working for them, because we do follow up to make sure they are all settled in and address any issue they have once they are in their new home. We don't have to do that but most of us really have a deep passion for our career choice, so we do. Our career is about helping people, so we are not good and saying okay you got your house good luck with that.

There really is not a clear defined ending to our job which is a big reason I love this career choice. I have been doing this since 1992 and have never looked back.

Well, back to planning out a week that will require no less than 54 hours of my time and many other hours from my team to help me, keep it all together.

My coffee is cooling and the donkey's and Miss Lily my goat need to be hayed and loved on so, I will fill you in on what happens over the week next Sunday.

Smile

Cindie