This phrase is practiced among Realtors® worldwide. Often we as agents are asked questions that only licensed professionals like Attorneys, Accountants or Doctors can answer. (Well, maybe not so much the doctor questions.) So it is important and behooves us from a liability perspective to say this phrase often and with meaning when one asks us a question out of the realm from our licensed profession, which is Real Estate.
I recently learned a valuable lesson in applying this phrase to my life as well. Spring fever hit and I have been outside trying to touch up our landscaping that has grown boring and mismanaged. We have 2 rows of beautiful hedges that seem to be maintained and groomed well in front of our home (at least from the street when you are driving by at 20 mph). But on the side there is another shrub that due to motivationally challenged teenagers and busy schedules it has been neglected. It had rogue branches that appeared to be having a race with the chimney to the roof of the house and unruly growth that appeared to be growing out of the house. While my teenage son and husband went away for a day on the weekend I thought I would surprise them and take care of this scoundrel (I think I remember my son calling it "evil").
I got my clippers and started clipping, I cut and cut and cut and cut and cut and....well, you get the idea. I cut till my arms began to ache and every car that passed by I would glance at, hoping they would stop long enough to say, "Okay, I think you've cut enough. You can stop now." Or better yet, "Why don't you cut the bottom more and the top less (or vice versa)" This hedge took some form that really can't be described as a square or a rectangle or an orb, in fact you couldn't really describe it as a hedge. Yet I continued to cut. I had just finished up what I believed to be the last cut and my 5 year old came outside and stood next to me. She took a good long look at the efforts of my manual labor I smiled, took off my gloves and brushed the clippings out of my hair and said," What do you think? Looks pretty good huh?" She nodded sweetly and said, "Yes....but not perfect."
It was at that moment I realized.... I am only a Realtor®, not a landscaper, and in the future I will practice as such.
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