Austin Texas is a sprawling city, the overall Austin area includes areas to the east Manor, to the west Dripping Springs, to the South the cities of Buda and Kyle and to the north large growing Round Rock and Pflugerville. This doesn't even include the outlying areas of the Lakes, like Spicewood, Lago Vista and the outlying areas of Hutto, Elgin and Bastrop.
In my first years of doing real estate sales I was all over the map. Showing homes for sale one day in Leander & Cedar Park and the next in Manor and the next in Kyle. It was a grueling drive from where I live in very Southwest Austin to Round Rock, and to meet a client at 10:00am meant I would drive thru am traffic that could take me an hour to get there.
Realtors do a lot of driving. Much of the time that's OK with me, I don't mind and I try not to push the clock or the speed limit. My goal is to get there on time and safely. I sometimes listen to motivational CDs or good soft oldie rock or sometimes flaming talk shows. I try to keep it positive on my way to a client meeting and I probably know every Taco Cabana and McDonalds from here to Waco.
After a while in business I was able to chose to do business more in South Austin real estate since that is where I lived and it left me with more time per client and not just getting from here to there. Now, the clients are fewer and business demands that I go back to servicing the whole area and not just the Southern areas of Austin, Buda, Kyle and Dripping Springs.
I feel in a quandary here ... IF I let go of business that is not in my selected areas and refer out clients who are North and East of me, wouldn't that be the right thing to do? I guess I am asking my Active Rain community how do you handle those sprawling metropolis? All ideas are welcome.
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