Well I just spoke to lucie, she commented on my post and gave me some insight on working from home, well, I decided to experiment with this concept, now I miss my office, my cordless phone is dying on me, and I trying to figure a way out of this, now I am looking at the 300 odd minutes on my blackberry, well it is going to cost me, I think I will need a corded phone and a headset, well I am just not use to it, it feels strange sitting on my bed and now I am blogging, hey I think I will gradually phase this idea in rather than jumping cold turkey,I feel unemployed because it is too relaxing, too comforting........what the heck....it is just another day..

Do you get up every morning and go to your office at 9.00a.m? What is your routine? Do you not go to the office and do most off your business mobile? Well, I will think that because of technology we don't need to go to the office unless you are going to either collect your mail, process a listing or meet a client. I am kinda curious to see what others do, because I feel guilty if I don't go to the office every morning to make my calls, I could do it on the road but it will cost me to much, what do you think?

This older gentleman said to me," Harold, if you listen to me and forget what others do in Real Estate, and just forcus on what the old man did, you will make it big as I once did".

The story starts:

In the older days there were no computers, just paper and pen, so what I did I choose 1000 homes, and every day, I will walk the neighbourhood, and say hi! to anyone I see, I will introduce myself as an agent, but just got to know everyone, I will write down their addresses, vehicle they drove, any description of the people I meet, but all done in private, the next time I will quickly look at my notes and call people by their names, people were amazed at my memory, they will ask me if I lived in the neighbourhood, they saw me everyday, I knew all the homes listed, homes sold all from my memory. I always kept my notebook and jogged my memory all the time. I often send birthdays cards,and other ocassion cards to the people in the neighbourhood, people thought that I cared so much that they will invite me to their homes, people called me U ncle,Mr ,Sir, Dad, I was know as the neighbourhood real estate man. After a couple months of doing this routine, I was the main lister in that area, my signs were everywhere, sometimes 10-12 listings.....did you get the theme of the story

Conclusion: Create real relationship, every day and everywhere, and the chips will fall as it may, listen to the wiseman.

Well, I have heard this phrase a few times and found out that there is something to this phrase that makes a lot of sense. Just image you are not taught to walk as a baby, but because of the constant falls, bruises, bloody noses,bruised knees and elbows that eventually you end up walking, how many times did you fall as a baby, does it matter when you are able to walk? You fogot about all the failures you had, and then you are walking and running...the miracle of failure... the same with real estate...

I have had so many people give you ideas as to how to make it big in this business? do you think there is a secret formula that we don't know about, it it about working smart? what do you think, if you have to advise a bunch of new recruits? what will be your instructions?

I made the call, visited a FSBO, the home was purchased power of sale, at a price close to market value, my opinion for the investor, home was bought at a price that cannot be flipped within 3 months of purchase to make  a decent return, keep property for a while, have it rented out, later sell. Commission was the issue, how much do I charge, I gave the answer, I gave ideas of improving the value of the home to justify the increased value, the improvements were done, another agent listed the property @ 2% lower than me, Believe it or not.

you have got what it takes to change the course of history, what is it?, exercise it.

The opinions of many pundits, predict a narrow majority of the democrats over the republicans, is this a good thing for our business, I don't know? will we see a new direction in the economy?

Could we use spellchecker on this blog? I cannot find a decent way of doing this, if you know of a spellchecker that could be placed on this network, I will be happy to hear..