You're starting to take after me my friend! I don't know either and I couldn't be happier about it!

YAAS!!!! 

I'm glad that I'm not the only one with these kind of days!!  Well as they say take the good with the bad!! 

Its a rollercoster of a market.  Just keep fighting the good fight.  Great Post

Paul - Awesome post, as usual.  I would love to see some of the photos of the excursion to the police department.  Can I steal the line about the liquid from the telemarketer's eyeballs?

I love this business.  (edit suggestion on last one)

I settle in with a little tender keyboard affection with my Active Rain buddies that give me so much joy at the end of my love/hate relationship of what we call business in the Real Estate World. I just love Active Rain!

Paul- You are so real and I so enjoy your humor, creative writing, are you for hire? I sure could have a little bit of your creativity in my corner! I have come to really look forward to your posts daily. Great, Fantastic Post!

Here is my end of day I love this business;

I so look forward to reading all my new AR friends thoughts, ideas and suggestions and snuggle right up to my pillow and laptop to end my day perfectly!!

What's there to look forward to if you know exactly what to look forward to, eh Jen?  Many agents list the uncertainty of our business as a negative.  Not me.  I like putting one foot in front of the other, and just going where I go.  Thanks, as always, for catching my drift.

ROFL!  Fabulous....no...terrible!  No....fabulous! ;)

Thank you Christy.  What I might have failed to get across is that this is more a summation of our industry, not just the snapshot I presented here.  The point is that I actually love the whole topsy-turvy nature of the thing.  It's all over the map, and that's what makes our profession truly wonderful.

Thank you, Gary.  Right back at you.  The market is a bear right now, but that just means we need bigger guns.  I appreciate your comments.

That line is yours whenever you deem it appropriate, Jason.  I'm planning on doing a blog on that particular Busy Bee excursion, so I'll have some good pics to share.  In the meantime, my wife might have already posted a couple to her site.  You can check the link in the post if you like.  Talk to you soon, buddy.

You are such a dear, Candace.  I always look forward to your glowing comments on my blog.  Thank you for the support!  I wholeheartedly agree with your ammendment to the last line, too.  One of these days, you and I will have a cross sale, and it's going to be my pleasure to work with you.

Thanks for the laugh, Lisa!

Awesome Paul -- I have a few that could use a showing, could you bring a buyer by, I won't mind! Be honored to have a cross sale with you anyday!!

I've got a lonely listing in area 403 that needs attention, too.  I'll show yours, you show mine, and we'll get this market heading in the right direction again!

Teh love hate i have never put into hours, and I must say my love far outweigh my hate....but when those telemarketers call well, ummmmmespecially when they call and act like my long lost best friend :)  Cut e post Paul.

That's exactly what I love about the business, everyday is different and you never know what to expect when you get up in the morning. Great Post.

Paul, you sound like me. Love it, hate it. It's funny how one person's call can set you off in fits, then within a couple of hours someone can call and lift you right out of the dumps. You said it so well!

Paul, there's certainly more to love than to hate about this business, but we all feel the way you did yesterday from time to time.  I'll take some of the minor annoyances any day for the luxury of not being a 9 to 5 zombie cubicle dweller.

Hi Paul,

A new challenge everyday....How cool is that! I really enjoyed reading your post. :)

Paul - Have you considered Prozac? I just wanted to jump in and say right on, brother! You are on a roll.

Paul -this a great morning -I read your blog,

it's a terrible morning -i have to call the buyer's attorney

it's a great morning - I don't know of any problems yet.

Now, how exactly did you do it all in one day, or did you mean -a year? 

Thanks, Kathy.  If it makes any sense, I even love the parts of the business that I hate.  It's the range of emotions/challenges that makes this job so exciting.

That's exactly what I was hoping to get across, Sandra.  Thanks for understanding.

And then another call to send you back down in the dumps again, Linda.  It's never-ending, but always entertaining!

And then another call to send you back down in the dumps again, Linda.  It's never-ending, but always entertaining!

I'm with you, Brian.  Give me the headaches along with the freedom, and I'll call it a fair trade.

Thank you Suzanne, glad you enjoyed it.  Sometimes it feels like 50 new challenges everyday!

You're too kind, Tom.  Now about the Prozac, I could either go that route ... or get a desk job.  No thanks!  I'll keep the highs and lows.

Buyer's attorney ... ugh, that doesn't sound like a good time, Faina.  I am fortunate that we don't use attorneys out here for selling Real Estate, so that's one headache I get to avoid.  It's amazing how many little challenges can fill up our day in this business, isn't it?  I'm sure today will be no different for any of us.  I appreciate your comments, Faina.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. - Ursula LeGuin

Thanks for the starting my morning off with a smile, Paul!

You are more than welcome, Lisa.  Thanks for providing the great quote.

That's it.  I've been here a week and I've decide who my first blog subscription will be ---yours!  Your sense of humor has already brightened more than one of my days.

You've even gotten me into thinking about constructive uses for a shop vac.  Telemarketers' eyeballs seems to be a worthy test....

One thing we can all say for sure...at least it's never boring! Have a happy Halloween!

Elaine, I'm honored!  I'll be looking forward to your posts as well.

If you give the shop-vac-eyeball thing a test run, make sure to tell me if it stops the calls.  Why do I get the feeling that Mr. Telemarketer will simply don an eyepatch and plow ahead?  Thanks again for following my blog!

You could say that we celebrate Halloween 365 days a year in this business, Kelly!  I hope you have a happy one, as well.

At least you always have a new hurdle to jump.

At least you always have a new hurdle to jump.

Bingo, Keith & Robin!  That's what makes life worth living.

You day sounds similar to mine!  At least the 2 sales phone calls were pretty the same.  Don't forget the 20 SPAM emails about Price Reductions and Open Houses on properties I have never seen and have no clients interested in!

cheers!

Oh the spamanity!  You're right, James, I completely blew past those lovely emails in my summation.  I don't care about your "wholesale properties" or "male enhancement" opportunities just this second, thank you! 

I appreciate the comments, James.

Paul, Well you put in a full day!  At least you should be tired enough to sleep good.  Sometimes when my day is like that and I am dead tired, I don't sleep that good because my mind is still moving too fast.

If you call me again, I will extract the liquid from your eyeballs with a shop-vac! - Flat out laughing my patooty off!  WARNING:  I WILL USE THIS!  ;o)

Thanks for sharing your day, Paul...

Funny you say that, Roberta, as I am much the same.  It's always difficult for me to shut my mind off at night.  Thank you for visiting on commenting, Roberta.

Consider any good telemarketing retort you find on my blog to be a public service, Lisa.  I not only permit, but vigorously encourage usage.  Good to see you(r comment), thanks for dropping in.

I love this post... When I first started in real estate, I couldn't take the emotional roller coaster.  Now I've learned to live with it. Its the life of a realtor!  There must be more good than bad or many of us would leave. 

You got it, Judy.  The turbulence is what makes it worth doing.  Give me peaks and valleys over flatline every day and twice on Sundays.  Thanks for adding your thoughts!