Sometimes it takes some perspective to remind us of how important our profession is. When it comes right down to it, what we do as REALTORS® is help our buyer clients find an environment that will become the backdrop of dreams and memories.
I recently returned to my hometown of Rockaway, New Jersey for the first time in many years. Thanks to the prodding of childhood friends who found me on Facebook and insisted we have a small reunion, I found myself in Rockaway standing across the street from the house I grew up in. As I stood there, the house, which as a child seemed enormous, looked far too small to contain all the wonderful memories that were formed there. Family holidays, Lifecycle Events like my Grandfather's 60th Birthday Party & Clambake, Planting in the garden with my dad, BBQ's, my childhood pets, and, as my friend Sheril reminded me, the party I had in the basement where we all played spin the bottle.
It was a great house to grow up in. I wonder if the REALTOR® who sold my parents that house knew how wonderful a setting it would be for our family and my brother's and my childhoods? Hopefully I will do as good of a job finding the perfect homes for my clients and their children!
Remember when working with buyers, it's not always just a property... it will be somebody's home.
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