Joanne- It hasn't happened to me yet, but I'm thinking I need to start taking more vacations. My sellers might thank me!

I can totally relate.  I can be as slow as can be and as soon as I had head out of town my business seems to explode.  Like you I usually have my lap top with me and end up working half of my vacation.  I'm getting ready however to go on a sailboat vacation to the Caribbean and I will be truly going on vacaction.  It has been  LONG TIME since I have left like that; I can't tell you how excited I am about it.

I joke with my agents all the time...."If you need business book a vacation.  Without fail, this happens to me every time!

Well, I am going camping the week after next with my church.  I could really use some of my listings to get sold so keep your fingers crossed! LOL

Wow, a sailboat vacation sounds wonderful, but I would stress about being out of touch I think (at least for a day or two!). I am lucky in that my daughter is now working with me and can handle just about anything, and I am getting much more comfortable about leaving.  Jennifer, take a few days off and see what happens! 

It always happens to me.  I am getting ready to travel to Las Vegas, and I am getting 4 offers on 4 of my listings and my buyer is making 1 as well.  I guess I should plan more vacations.

I wonder where the best place is to go that would bring in the most offers?  Church camp or Vegas?  Sounds like Vegas so far!  We will have to see when Debbie gets back from camp. 

It seems to work that way with us too!

It is really weird because usually I get stressed about being gone but this time I am looking so forward to this vacation I am turning my business over to a friend and totally escaping.  This is something we have always wanted to do so we are going to make the most of it.

Happens all the time.  I can leave town for one day and suddenly a buyer needs to write an offer.  We have a hot market here (still) and offers cannot wait.  Everything is urgent!  Aaargh.

I understand how you fell just happens to me same way. I am about to going on vcation and my emails and phones starts going on all the time. I am lucky that I have an assistant who takes care while I am gone and thanks God for technology.

It has happened to me a few times, how do they know?  Maybe I should travel next week and see if I can get an offer.  LOL, and I thought that marketing and networking will get my listings sold.

...and that's the way it should work.  When we are in the office we like to control the day.  When we leave to ski, hike, take a vacation or whatever, we give up that control...and the barriers...and that allows other events to enter our life.  I've done deals from the side of a mountain...and can't think of a better way to do them.  Instead of planning the day...hang loose and allow the day!

Hi Mal,

was it you that worked with Dr Edward Fox?  He was a referral I sent over your way and the broker gave him to someone in the office.  It may have been you!  We should keep in touch...

Hi Joanne,

 Not sure where that referral went...don't think it was our office.  Always happy to help out though!  We'll keep in touch...always good to have a reliable contact on the other side of the hill.

My mother sold real estate in Denver for years and said the same thing. Leave town and get a deal. So recently I was complaining that my buyers were headed out of town, the listing agent was out of town and one of the two sellers lives in another country. Moms response? Great!

And did an offer come in?

My offers that I got last weekend didn't come together, so the vacation time that was spent working was wasted! :(  Maybe not totally, but it could have been better.

I all worked out until today, and may still work out. I'll let you read my post dated today.

Oh so true!!! I'm going on vacation in a couple of weeks and I just know it's going to get busy! Great post and good job on the business!

iSN'T THAT CALLED MURPHY'S LAW?  I have had the reverse happen.  Client went to Disney World and I got two offers on their home.  About the 3rd counter offer, they were NOT pleased to be called to the desk to fax another reply.

Whatever it takes Joan.... I have a client right now that I would gladly send out of town so that we get an offer on his house!  Let's see, perhaps I could send him to Shell Knob, Missouri.  I am sure you have golf courses there, so he would be happy. 

Joanne

This type of thing happens frequently.  I have found myself on vacation before or my inspector on vacation.  Last week the inspector I mainly use for my buyers was on vacation and I needed 2 inpections for 2 of my clients on deals that were needing to close quick. I was thinking about going out of town this week and I am glad I did not.  I had plenty of things to come up to keep me real busy. 

I also get this one:  a property comes on the market that is perfect for an out-of-town buyer who is familiar with the unit and ready to buy.   I call them and THEY are the ones that are out of town.  They have no access to fax or email, can't get the earnest money, and the unit goes under contract within a day to someone else.  It has happened twice this month. 

Bradley, that is where it helps to have a company with a couple of inspectors on staff, but it seems there is always a favorite one that we want to get if we can...

Eliese, it is one of the perils of  a hot market, and yours certainly is!  At least it trains them to jump on the next one, or at least to let you know where they are.

Yea, I love it when my sellers go on vacation. I have a seller who's house has been on the market for 2 years. We were suppose to get and offer Sat. They were leaving for a week long camping trip on Sunday. The offer didn't come, the buyers had to wait until Sunday.

I knew the realtor and knew she was not stringing us along. So I asked them to wait and leave today. We got the offer yesterday at 3:00, completely bottom lined by 6:30. Inspections will be done while they are gone and we close on July 31st.

I got an offer yesterday and my clients are in Mexico, where it is traditionally hard to even make a phone call.  Luckily my client has his blackberry with him and was able to call out after he got the email.  We will counter verbally and if it works out, get it in writing Wednesday when they get back.  Sometimes you just have to work around it and find a way to make it go, and it sounds like you did just that Missy!