So, yesterday was one of those days that makes me love and hate my job all at once.  This job is certainly not for the faint of heart and not for any individual who is unstable in any way as the stress will send you right over the edge!  Anyway, my office manager was on vacation this week and frankly I was struggling to complete any task as I was answering phones, submitting ads, etc so I was not in a proper frame of mind anyway.  By 9:30 I was on cloud nine as I walked in to find 2 offers and to my surprise within an hour I had 2 more.  In this market, I know I should be doing cartwheels but as you read on you will know why I wasn't.  So I had 4 offers on 2 listings and I was running around trying to deal with these four offers while meeting ad deadlines and so on.  Well, by 3:00 that same afternoon, I was left with only 2 offers!  Let me explain my frustration with the other two.  ONE WORD:  FINANCING!  One offer was from an agent who said she had been working with a couple for 4 months only to discover that the buyers didn't qualify and had to clean up their credit before they could get approved for anything.  I am wondering why she put these buyers in the car in the first place and secondly why would you write an offer without a prequalification letter?  The second offer fell apart because the lender told the buyer the day before that they were prequalified but the following day their debt to income ratio was too high.  So, now down to 2 offers there are problems in paradise with both of them.  The point to my story is that I have been working my butt off, spinning my wheels, working 50-60 hours a week only to make squat!  I was so frustrated that I went home and made myself a big bowl of macaroni and cheese and opened a beer at 3:45!  I am good at my job but some days I am left to question why I do it.  My husband even had the nerve to tell me that when all is said and done with one transaction about to close that I would have made more money per hour at Chik Fil A!  So much for support at home!  Anyway, I am fortunate that I have business at all, but I tell you I work harder now than I ever have trying to earn a living.