Your name saw this post on The ActiveRain Real Estate Network and thought it might be of interest to you. Please see the link below to review the post.

If Your Call Is After 5:30PM, I'll return it the Next Business Day?
Written in response to How often do you check your e-mail (which didn't seem to have anything to do with e-mail)
WRITTEN TO OTHER AGENTSI can understand what you are saying and thinking but I've lived on both sides of this.
Real Estate is a business, so I treat it like one. You call any business after their posted hours and they will not be picking up the phone. What do customers do when the don't reach them, move on to the next one. If I lose a customer or client due to my "hours" it's ok.  Think about it?  If I have someone upset about my posted hours and expectations and they want to violate that, they will do that later on too.
That's what happens in real estate most of the time.
I never could get realtors that weren't 24/7 realtors, until someone asked me: "Is there anything I can do at 6PM that I can't take care of in the AM?" NOPE
So why do I need to take a call from you (the other agent) at 6PM? I have a family I'd rather spend time with, sorry. You're not even 3rd on my list of people I ... more

__________________________________________________
Are you on The Rain? Grow Your Network!