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Top Ten Reasons...You Know You're A REALTOR If...(Humor)

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Real Estate Agent with Keller Williams Realty - Atlantic Shore

You Know You're a Real Estate Agent If...

10.    Starbucks is your favorite restaurant.

9.     You hold open houses just because you want to be able to check all of your emails and post blogs about how ineffective open houses are.

8.     You take a listing but tell your seller from day one that the asking price needs to be lower, and you keep telling them this throughout the listing period.   They get mad and when the listing expires hire another agent and lower their price to what you told them.

7.    You yell at your computer when no MLS photos are posted.

6.    Your car has as many places for files as the filing cabinets in your office.

5.    You can answer the phone, reply to an email, send a fax, eat your lunch, review title work, send a text message and set a showing, at one time.

4.    You've had at least one client who thinks you were overpaid so he gets his real estate license because real estate is easy, right?  After one miserably failed year he goes back to his previous job and you secretly smiled.

3.    The only time that you can be social (outside of work) is at 2am online with other real estate agents.

2.    You schedule a mini vacation and all the business that you've dreamed of comes out of the woodwork 3 days before you leave.

1.    You've read the REALTOR® Code of Ethics.  You follow the 
REALTOR® Code of Ethics.  It puzzles you why 92% of the agents that you do a deal with act as if the Code was written in Vulcan.


This is my edited Top 10 list compiled after reading "You Know You’re a Real Estate Agent If… Top 40 Ways" by Mariana Wagner.

It's Monday - Smile & Share It
Team Honeycutt
Allen Tate - Concord, NC

Number 2 is so true. Just plan to leave town if you want some business!

Oct 17, 2011 10:55 AM
Amy Hahn
Pine Knoll Shores Realty - Morehead City, NC
Realtor/Broker - Crystal Coast, NC

Love this list, but I would have to say, I do my only socializing at 4:00 am vs. 2:00.  Other than that.... Right On!  And just a little more laughter to add to my day.... Thanks!

Oct 17, 2011 11:04 AM
Laura Allen, Lake Tahoe - Truckee Real Estate for Sale TahoeLauraRealEstate.com
Coldwell Banker Realty, Tahoe City, CA (530) 414-1260 - Tahoe City, CA
Tahoe Real Estate Agent Helping Buyers and Sellers

You have to love #4 - real estate is so easy, right?  You made me smile, thanks for the post!!!

Oct 17, 2011 11:14 AM
William Feela
WHISPERING PINES REALTY - North Branch, MN
Realtor, Whispering Pines Realty 651-674-5999 No.

I think you hit the list right on.  I feel this way most of the time also.

Oct 17, 2011 11:48 AM
Debbie Laity
Cedaredge Land Company - Cedaredge, CO
Your Real Estate Resource for Delta County, CO

I just experienced number 2. Great list, and thanks for the chuckle. I hit the suggest button.

Oct 17, 2011 11:49 AM
Vern Eaton
Askov, MN
Realtor 651-674-7449

These are so very right on.  It is hard for people to understand.

Oct 17, 2011 01:14 PM
Steve Loynd
Alpine Lakes Real Estate Inc., - Lincoln, NH
800-926-5653, White Mountains NH

Laura, I just found a file in my car the other day that I have been looking for for over a week.

Oct 17, 2011 01:19 PM
Sally K. & David L. Hanson
EXP Realty 414-525-0563 - Brookfield, WI
WI Real Estate Agents - Luxury - Divorce

Sounds all tooo familiar...good post !

Oct 17, 2011 10:36 PM
Jim Palmer
Chipola Realty - Chipley Office (850) 638-2777 - Sunny Hills, FL
Washington County, Florida

Great list!   #10 does not apply to me however as the closest Starbucks is 25 miles away! Have to make my own..

#2 is just so true!! Amazing how the phone always waits till you set the cruise control to 75 on the Interstate..then lights up like a pinball machine. So much so that I have decided that every day I wake up is a vacation!

Oct 18, 2011 12:38 AM
Randi Brammer
Randi Brammer, Acctg. - Hinckley, MN
Accountant & Tax Preparer

This list reminds my of my Real Estate days.  Now it could almost also apply to accounting..

Oct 18, 2011 02:35 AM
Tony & Darcy Cannon
Aubrey and Associates Realty - Layton, UT
The C Team

Laura, LOL, That is funny!  Number 2 is the reason that it becomes something that we do when things get really slow!  Great list, thanks for the laughter!

Oct 18, 2011 04:33 AM
Laura Sargent
Carolina One Real Estate - Mount Pleasant, SC

Great funny list.  Thankfully you can get fined in our area if there isn't at least one photo in the mls with a listing.

Oct 18, 2011 06:50 AM
Michael A. Caruso
Surterre Properties - Laguna Niguel, CA

Ha ha oh man isn't that the truth! Thanks for sharing, very funny!

 

-Michael

Oct 18, 2011 10:21 AM
Than Maynard
Coldwell Banker Heart of Oklahoma - Purcell, OK
Broker - Licensed to List & Sell - 405-990-8862

Number 2 is so very accurate. I noticed a few other people agree. Tytpically, it hits theday before and the whole time you are trying to get there.

Oct 19, 2011 04:15 AM
Team Honeycutt
Allen Tate - Concord, NC

this list is great for someone new in the business . Lol gives me so much to look forward too. lol ( J )

Oct 19, 2011 04:23 AM
Brin Realty Associates Team At Bean Group
Bean Group | Brin Realty Associates - Amherst, NH
Amherst NH homes and Southern NH real estate

Good one Laura, #2 is so true, happens every time.

Oct 19, 2011 10:45 PM
Gita Bantwal
RE/MAX Centre Realtors - Warwick, PA
REALTOR,ABR,CRS,SRES,GRI - Bucks County & Philadel

Laura, This should be featured. #1 and # 2 are so true and so are some of the others.

Oct 20, 2011 07:02 AM
Nick T Pappas
Assoc. Broker ABR, CRS, SFR, e-Pro, @Homes Realty Group, Broker/Providence Property Mgmnt, LLC Huntsville AL - Huntsville, AL
Madison & Huntsville Alabama Real Estate Resource

Laura, and the worst thing about #8 is that after the next agent gets the listing and reduces the price...the house sells...ARggggh!!!

Oct 22, 2011 12:40 PM