It is Friday night and you are trying to schedule your kids ball games, a date with the wife, some rest time, the USC football game on ESPN and the phone rings...the out of town client wants to look at homes all day tomorrow! Where is the balance in this job we call real estate? How do you balance family and business? What tips can you provide to help other agents become great agents and great parents and great spouses and great friends? I have some thoughts, but I would love to hear how others have managed to live a balanced life and still achieve at a high level.
Scott
2 Comments on Balancing Life with Real Estate
It took me a few years to figure it out-but I just got strict and set some limits and I share that with clients from the get-go. They no longer expect me to work between 5-8p (dinner and bath/bedtime for my kids) or on Sundays (worship and family time). You just have to treat your family like clients and schedule stuff in. There is NOTHING wrong with saying 'i'm booked, how about xx date/time?'. folks will respect you for having limits and you'll actually do more business since you'll attract better clients. Good luck-it's hard to do at first but worth the effort.
Scott, you know there's no hard fast rule. It always depends on the situations we face. If the family stuff is not long overdue, if it can be made up, if the client is real... and ready, our cash flow... there are always a lot of factors to consider. And we hope we get it right always.
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It took me a few years to figure it out-but I just got strict and set some limits and I share that with clients from the get-go. They no longer expect me to work between 5-8p (dinner and bath/bedtime for my kids) or on Sundays (worship and family time). You just have to treat your family like clients and schedule stuff in. There is NOTHING wrong with saying 'i'm booked, how about xx date/time?'. folks will respect you for having limits and you'll actually do more business since you'll attract better clients. Good luck-it's hard to do at first but worth the effort.