The typical real estate broker, agent, REALTOR's day starts with the crowing rooster. Up with the cows, meeting, greeting the property buying public.
Happy folks, angry ones, and everywhere in between.
Some on their meds.
Others wanting someone's head to roll and eying yours.
Rise and shine, go get them Mr Brokerman, tiger if you have what it takes to peddle property for profit.
Possess the affliction, disease, unique life spark to hold down a career called real estate.
Time is ticking, use of it is precious to maximize the day. You literally CAN make more time in your day by better use of it. But here is an area where your time is drained, bled out without much control on your part..that just comes with the territory.
First, you schedule a showing for a new property listing and tell the property buyer you will meet them at the property. Good call if you are heading in that direction and checking off other items on your real estate to do list along the way. SOLD sign panel on this listing, new images without snow in this, this and this property. Bad call, decision if the prospect is not qualified to buy. Or does not show up at all. Is hopelessly late while you talk on and on with the seller in a smokey kitchen of a chain smoker owner. With six cats wanting to be your friend. Have you stratch behind their ear. Rubbing your leg to catapult some fleas, to share and take home to your own cats.
Or you are ker plopped, stalled, sitting in an empty house using your cell phone to try to make something constructive come out of the delay, time derailment, waiting. Meeting at the office so you can work like a little real estate beaver on other projects, be available for those walk in buyers and sellers suddenly seems like a better call, move. Your best days are when you list a quality property, a fairly priced real estate listing you 
know will sell if promoted correctly.
And days at sunset, when you look back over the hours, take inventory of your energy spent, you get agood productive feeling. An Eagle's like "Peaceful, Easy Feeling". A ton of items removed from your over booked air traffic control real estate to do list.
Hit, brought down a lot of real estate ducks flying over. Made a lot of people happy.
Dealt with many folks from brokers, buyers, sellers, lawyers, bankers, appraisers, carpenters, plumbers, electricians in bang bang bang like clockwork fashion, Were a superman, with iron will stamina, strength. It does not just happen though. It's plan you work, work your plan instead of helter skelter, willy nilly real estate by the seat of your pant's brokerage.
Those types make more work for other professionals who have to clean up, make excuses, run interference for sloppy real estate operations with tons of slack.
Any lessons learned on how to avoid time wasting, with you the culprit or new ways to corral, contain others who will bleed you try at pitstops along the way that go way way longer than you would like? How do you handle them? What have you learned?
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