On Tuesday Night at the Utah Association of Realtors convention, they had a get together that included a casino night.  Everyone was given $1000 of play money to buy chips and you could play all sorts of casino games.  At the end there was a drawing for gifts, everyone got 1 entry then for every $1000 dollars in chips or play money you could get another entry ticket.

It was fun to play Black Jack, Texas Hold'em and Roulette with no pressure of losing my own money or really any money at all.  There was no pressure, so we could experiment with games that we had no idea how to play. Darcy did really well with Texas Hold'em.  I didn't do as well!  I did like learning how to play Roulette, I had never dared to try to learn to play before.  In all it was a lot of fun.

How does this relate to Real Estate?  I am not completely sure.  I think that some agents forget and think that they're not playing with their own money so there is no pressure to perform or do well.  That isn't true, we are playing with someone else's money.  It isn't play money, there are things that we need to do to make sure that our buyers and sellers are taken care of.

We can't pretend to guarantee that we can sell all of our listings, but we can do everything that we know how, to market a property so that it will sell.  We can also educate our sellers to make sure that they understand the importance of properly pricing from the outset of the listing, that things need to be cleaned up, and that there is a lot of competition out there, so their listing needs to outshine other listings.

For our buyers we have to get things moving, there is $8000 sitting on the table that they may qualify for, as long as they get the deal done by November 30th.  We also need to make sure that they are getting the best deal possible for the buyer.  I also think that there are a lot of other things that we can do to make the task easier on the buyers and sellers, things like communicating with them, working for them, and making sure that they understand the entire process.

Anyway, this was a thought that I had as I was playing on Casino Night, that it was fun, it was really not like anyone was losing, it was just a game!