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.
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