When I was a new agent, I had several settlements scheduled for one day, and everything was crazy.
One house had termites, which were discovered at the last minute because I forgot to order the inspection.
Another issues with the loan approval that was supposed to be a done deal but wasn't - not even close!
The third transaction got a little dicey when the buyer showed up for the walk-through and discovered his little Toyota Corolla was to long to fit into his Dupont Circle 1-car garage. He was not happy.
I needed a magician to pull this one off!
I started to freak out in my wise manager's office. She looked at me, pulled out her little calculator, pushed in a bunch of numbers, held it up to me and said, "This is how much money you're making today. If this job was easy, you wouldn't get paid so much to do it!"
It's not that I expect every transaction to be difficult, but I've yet to have one that didn't take some amount of hard work or skill to make it work. Still, every time I start out with a new project, I ask myself if this is going to be the easy one.
I've had fun ones. I've had nice ones. I've had a few really awful ones. But I've never had a totally easy one. None that were total no-brainers.
Maybe next week!
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