| Ordinarily at this time of year, many of you would be away or looking forward to getting away; taking a trip somewhere new and rejuvenating. But with travel plans on hold, you may finally have the opportunity to take a different sort of journey: one of self-congratulations and self-recognition…for your life as a REAL ESTATE AGENT. |
Yes, Real-a-tors,This Is Your Life and career…with a little help from buyers and sellers. |
| As the host, I offer you a sort of career biography, citing some illustrious day-to-day events, a little encapsulation of the trials and tribulations in the life of a real estate agent. |
1. Forgetting to bring a chair to your vacant Open House – and a big bag of cookies. (But Open Houses do give you that much needed alone time.) …and where the smoke detector keeps chirping. |
| 2. Finding out that your socks don’t match when you take your shoes off to show a house. 3. Continually answering the question: “So, how many days a week do you work?” 4. Selling a property where the neighbour’s front lawn looks like there’s always a yard sale and the grass is tall enough to be a hiding spot for a five-year-old. |
5. Wondering what to say when your seller believes they have staged their home to sell. |
| 6. Lowering the radio music when looking for the street address so you can see better. |
| 7. Entering the lockbox code on your microwave after a long day. And even worse, when you thought you were buying organic vegetables, you got home only to discover they’re just regular donuts. |
| 8. The owner wanting you to include every little detail about their house in the listing description.…Umm, the 37-year-old brick fireplace isn’t gonna sell the place. A hole in the roof is not a skylight and no, you can’t list the litter box as a third bathroom. |
| 9. Hearing yet again, “Yes, I know what all the comps say, but my house is SPECIAL.“ |
| 10. Giving a big thank you to weekends and evenings for understanding that there is no time for them now that you’re in real estate. |
| 11. And thanking your car for being:an officefiling cabinetstorage unit and occasional dining room and bedroom. |
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