22 Wonderful Things about my real estate job.

22 Things I Like About My Real Estate Job ...or maybe not.
by Annette Lawrence

Real estate, in all it's forms and disciplines has proven to be the most incredible and resilient, innovative industry on the planet.

What I like most is knowing I can endure:

1. Continuous extensions due to title company findings regarding adjacent property
2. Missed dates because underwriter 'found something' in credit file
3. Lenders/title company/attorneys still using fax machines
4. Buyer agents who don't show up.
5. Buyer agents whose buyer does not show up and don't call
6. After contingencies full-filled buyer agent submits further price adjustment.
7. Eboxes without keys
8. New clients without email.
9. Buyers who are not looking for anything specific, just looking for a deal.
10. Purchase offers where every numeric entry is wrong
11. Knowing I am going to have to take care of both sides of the transaction, and still pay the other agent.
12. Buyers who have no time line
13. Sellers who have no time line
14. Sellers who say, "I need to get $xxx for my house."
15. Buyers who ask"Will you give me a kick back?"
16. Condo buyers whose family is comprised of 2 pit bulls.
17. Agents wanting 45% referral fee.
18. Hearing people knowingly repeating false data
19. Emotionally intense buyers and sellers
20. Finding seller items in house at walk through
21. Buyer requests 'all' things on inspection report to be repaired on 'AS IS' listing.
22. Agent responds, "I don't use email or text. Deliver everything to my office."

What I love is that every agent encounters ALL of these issues repeatedly every year.

Collectively we can celebrate the realization

• we possess solutions,
• we possess ingenuity,
• we possess the skill,
• we possess the authority,
• we possess the temperament,
• we possess the insight....

...to address all of these issues and deliver to those who trust us the best possible outcome.

What I LIKE about my job as a real estate professional is knowing this job is not easy, but we, as a community of 'called' professionals, make it appear so.

Best of success to all of you.