Real Estate Agents! Are you running a real estate business or are you acting like a disgruntled employee complaining about how hard you have to work and how bad the other agents are and so on and so forth?
There are so many posts about how HARD your work is, how hard it is to deal with short sales, how hard it is to deal with REOs and the agents all involved in these transactions. Get over it!
Who told you that this business was going to be a cake walk? This post is straight to the point so if your feelings get hurt easily or the truth is hard to bear than maybe pass on this post.
What made you decide to get into this business of real estate? Did you think you were going to become a millionaire overnight or did you get into this business to become a public servant to work for free and get stepped on by your clients or did you get into this business in order to be a true entrepreneur with a free spirited approach to accepting a challenge and bringing home profits at the end of the day?
I read about how agents are avoiding short sales because they take too long to get closed and they are hard work. No crap Sherlocke! Try selling houses when interest rates were 21% and no one could get a loan! When I was first going for my real estate license all my friends and family told me I was crazy because no one could make a living during the highest inflation ever in our country. I said, WATCH ME! Give me a challenge any day.The typical closing took 90 to 120 days because there were no faxes, no cell phones, no pc's. If you were buying a house you had to wait until the bank had their committee meetings and had your file up for review in that meeting. There was no desktop underwriting!
Then there are the agents who are complaining about how tough their business is these days, how bad the market is. The market is what you make of it. There is either a cup half empty or half full- your choice! Who said it was supposed to be easy? Who said it was supposed to be fair? You buckle down and get to work.
Now we are reading about agents who want the legislature to step in and change things. They want the government to come in and save the day to make their business easier. Be careful what you wish for. When has the government ever made things easier for small businesses? You own a business. Government is not here to help you. Are we so used to being a nanny state that now they have to come and regulate how to do an REO to make your life easier? Get down and get to work. Learn how you can make a difference. Be the shining example that shows you can figure out how to run your business in spite of the obstacles and without big brother telling you the rules and how to do things.
Get your big girl and boy panties on! It takes thinking work not stinkin' work.
Earning profits in this market are abundantly around you all you have to do is open your eyes. But you can't see the forest for the trees if you are moping around, complaining and speaking ill of your counter parts and competition. Instead of bitching about the banks and their stupid policies, figure out a way to work around them. Look for the solution. Seek the solution. Find the solution. Fight the good fight so you can sleep at night. Accept the challenge or crumble in defeat- your choice.
Challenges and obstacles are what can either make you or break you. Your choice. Figure out a way to shine in all the mess. Find a way to serve and then go the 110%. Don't stop halfway crying because you got your knees scraped in the race to the finish line. If you can not do that, then maybe you are not cut out for this business. And that is OK too!
Who Told You That This Business Was Going To Be A Cake Walk? by Coach Katerina Gasset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License
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