Nestor was working on his laptop in our home office at his desk on our expired program. I was just finishing up writing a blog on Active Rain in our office when 'Sweet Thing' by Rufus and Chaka Khan started playing on my computer from our favorite on line music listening source, Pandora.com. As the music began to play, Nestor stood up and walked over to me and held out his hand. I extended my hand and stood up to dance with him to this song as our bare feet felt the softness of our hand stressed wood floor. Enjoy listening to Chaka Khan and Rufus singing 'Sweet Thing', the link will take you to YouTube. Embedding was disabled by request. 
As he held me close I was thinking about how blessed I am to have my husband be my partner and that we love each other. Is everything always bliss, of course not! But those moments we share when we can stop the world and hold each other for a moment are blissful treasures.
I am fortunate to be a couple partnership. Someone I know understands the emotional ups and downs of the real estate business and someone who can fill in for me and I for him in a moments notice. There are times when we just know who should answer the phone. There are moments when each of us can step into the shoes of the other when stress mounds or moods sway. Balancing each other out is a benefit that goes without saying.
We each have our strengths and in a partnership we can allow those strengths to shine.
Connecting with the sellers is a huge benefit to being in a couple business relationship. When one of us is talking to a seller in person, whichever one of us the seller begins to connect with will be the one that takes point and the other will drop back. This is also a move that we use in negotiations too. Whichever one of us is being able to communicate better the objectives will be the one that takes the lead in negotiating. On the phone we also apply this. When this one buyer called who wanted to buy a home for 1 million dollars plus in the Aero Club here in Wellington Florida I was the one who answered the phone. I could tell within the first 3 minutes of our conversation that I was not going to click with this man. I knew that Nestor would be the better match. So when we looked up the information for this buyer Nestor was the one who called him back and connected with the buyer in a way that I was not able to. We closed a sale with this buyer 4 weeks later for 1.3 million dollars.
Having a partner in your Real Estate business has proven to help your bottom line. But being in love with your partner is the best boost you can get to your income production.
Nestor and I met in a CIPS real estate course.
You can read our story of how we met in Romancing Realtors Part 1 and Romancing Realtors Part 2.
Katerina Gasset, CIPS, Realtor ®, Business and Life Coach, Speaker and Author. Reach Katerina at: 561-753-0135
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