Real estate blog entries tagged with a day in the life of a broker by Tammy Lankford,, Broker GA Lake Sinclair/Eatonton/Milledgeville (Lane Realty Eatonton, GA Lake Sinclair, Milledgeville, 706-485-9668)

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a day in the life of a broker: Is it spring yet? - 12/02/13 12:28 PM

I'm getting into my winter funk. When it's dark when I wake up and dark when I get home from work and it is cold and dreary outside I fight depression. So today I started my count down. Since it's technically still fall it's way too soon to start counting the days until spring. Like my business goals, I take baby steps. There are 19 more days until the day with the least amount of sunlight will come and go. So I'll count down those 19 days. Then will come Christmas 4 days later. Then New Year's. Next my brother's birthday, … (17 comments)

a day in the life of a broker: The Blessings of a small town bank... - 11/25/13 07:00 AM

Last Friday my office had a 5 p.m. closing with a mega law firm in Buckhead in Atlanta. The entire journey of contact from attorney to the closing table had been a bumpy one. There were issues with understanding the title and blah blah blah... issues that could have been avoided if the buyers had used a local to the property attorney, but I digress.
Needless to say with a 5 p.m. closing with an out of state lender we didn't really expect the closing to fund on Friday so we went prepared with wiring instructions for our commission check. … (12 comments)

a day in the life of a broker: Don't shoot the messenger (please) - 11/18/13 06:37 AM

Our firm lists REO (foreclosure) properties and well... sometimes it's a big ole' headache.
Just recently we had an asset manager (the messenger standing between us and the bank that actually owns the property) who was on a little tiny bit of a power trip. We thought we had a closing, but she insisted we didn't. We'd made a change to the contract via an amendment. Well that just wasn't acceptable.
Instead of the amendment we had to have the ENTIRE contract (all 29 pages of it) resigned in blood ink by all parties. It ended up not being returned to … (43 comments)

a day in the life of a broker: Good news all around today.... - 11/14/13 07:53 AM

My HUD bid got accepted. Jennie's listing went under contract. Nancy has an appointment tomorrow. Had lunch a new loan officer (who is back in the business) and I am excited about that. It started off freezing cold, but actually got up to the low 60s today.
Lane Realty currently has 9 contracts due to close between now and the end of the year and that puts us on the track I set out to surpass last year's totals in both volume and $$$.
Donald and I have been invited to dinner Friday night by a couple I sold a home … (9 comments)

a day in the life of a broker: A day in the life of a broker (complications and solutions) - 09/12/13 06:05 AM

The story of the REO manufactured home title and it's many complications.
Fortunately: We were supposed to have a closing today.
Unfortunately: The selling bank, asset manager and out town attorney who represents the selling bank didn't have their ducks in a row.
(When selling a manufactured home you have to do one of two things...
Transfer the title to the buyers Retire the title and obtain a certificate of permanent location And in this case that had not been done and frankly could not be done. Why? Well because some previous attorney had not even transferred it into the … (24 comments)

a day in the life of a broker: Now and then.... visiting a post from 2008 - 04/06/13 02:17 PM

I was feeling all "reflecty" today and decided to go back and read my early blog posts. This was number 12 written in September of 08. I thought I'd "update" it. In. A. Different. Sort. of. Way.
I have always on most occasions when done with a deal when working with the buyers ended up adding a friend to my circle of friends. Of the agents that have and do work for my over half started out their affiliation with my company as a buyer/client. There have the rare people where I was just ready to get it over with and … (21 comments)

a day in the life of a broker: Just another day in the life of a broker - 03/13/13 01:52 PM

Well woo hoo, It's here. We're going to be seeing color color everywhere on ActiveRain. And even perhaps EVERYONE (please) will be making their font size at least 14 pt. which I always thought should be the default. After all I've been using my eyes a long time, they are old and tired and wearing out a little more each day. I'm so happy to see this... It's the awesome spot in my day.
And I'm getting down to the nitty gritty on my class I am taking to obtain my real estate instructors license. I will have a few more … (32 comments)

a day in the life of a broker: Married to your best friend... - 02/14/13 08:58 AM

The best laid plans...
People plan... God laughs
I don't know who said those things, but yeah, I do know they are true. Today my Donald sent me a text early in the afternoon and said dinner? movie? both? of course for Valentine's Day. I got I love you texts from him too. And a dozen red roses and a beautiful card that he wrote himself saying I'm the best part of him. Yeah, I know ewwwy mushy. But also super sweet.
Well at 6:00 I was still at the office with a deal crumbling before my eyes. I realized I … (23 comments)

a day in the life of a broker: It's 5 O'Clock somewhere - 02/12/13 07:29 AM

It happens all the time... I'm ready to walk about the door at a quarter before 5 and the phone rings, people walk in or an email comes that takes me an hour to handle. Today it was the latter, the 4:55 email. I could have put it off until in the morning, but that would likely have cost my purchaser a day of nothing happening with his loan. So I was at the office for an hour past when I wanted to leave. Oh well. It happens.
I got the email from the loan officer asking for an amendment to … (7 comments)

a day in the life of a broker: Expect new listings this week... - 01/27/13 12:17 PM

I wanted new listings and so I have been marketing to sellers about how I advertising listings and what I offer sellers. I spent all weekend doing CMAs. I have been working on getting them ready to send out to the sellers and I really expect to be listings some new homes this week.
Today one of my agents (Tee Shaw) listed one at an amazing price. $139,900 for a 4 Bedroom, 2 Bath manufactured home with screened porch and wharf dock.
I am waiting on a few of the details before I get it syndicated and on line, so you … (13 comments)

a day in the life of a broker: The completeness of frustation on behalf of my buyers - 11/27/12 12:22 PM

Two weeks ago I actually believed it was going to happen. But then at about 7:49 p.m. Friday night I got an email from the loan officer that new conditions had been placed and they needed two more documents from me (a new addendum about the HVAC and a more legible copy of page two of the termite inspection). Let's see the HVAC was repaired November 1 and invoice showing the repair submitted and they'd had the termite letter a week before that.
With this 11th hour request I felt like closing Monday was a long shot, but I was still hopeful. … (14 comments)

a day in the life of a broker: Just when I thought it was going to slow down... - 11/19/12 12:03 PM

This is usually the time of year I can relax a little. I have always said that between Thanksgiving and New Year's it wouldn't even matter if our office was open. Even during the height of the boom back in 2006 our Lake Sinclair real estate market has been seasonal. But I'm thinking based on current activity we can expect a better than the average of 6 closings on January. That's the average of the past three years. Even back in 2006 we only had 9 closings in January. I am thinking we just might break even that number based on … (17 comments)

a day in the life of a broker: Don't worry- let me do it for you! - 10/22/12 07:54 AM

I can't even begin to count the number of times that I've solved problems and jumped through hoops and gotten things fixed before I ever call my client to alert them that it's a problem. I have to give credit where credit is due to having a proactive attorney on my team that does the same thing with me too. At least 50% of the time he has a "solution" before he alerts me to a potential title problem. I always do the same for my clients. I try to at least know "how" they can solve a problem before I … (15 comments)

a day in the life of a broker: Adapting to change, happens every day in real estate - 10/21/12 01:16 PM

Today when my Donald headed out to walk Glen I thought, wow, with his new schedule I haven't walked a dog since Monday! And while that's good, it's also bad. First of all, those walks are exercise, second I love to get to see and visit with some of my neighbors and of course I can't make my Donald do all the dog walking even if he is willing to take that task.
When I was walking in the warm sun today it was a beautiful 71 degrees outside and I'd been feeling chilly inside all day long. When the wind … (9 comments)

a day in the life of a broker: Well this is the best Monday I've had in a while - 10/15/12 05:36 AM

I'm always sharing My Donald stories and today is no exception. I had only shared with a very few facebook group of friends that my Donald had once again applied for a job that would take him "outside the fence line" at work. (a good thing when you work for the Dept. of corrections). Well earlier today I was on a call at the office with a client and missed a call on my cell phone. After I was done with my client call I listened to the voice mail...
I'm jumping for joy. He got the job. So I'll have … (18 comments)

a day in the life of a broker: A nearly prefect Monday - 09/10/12 01:53 PM

My phone rang before 8 a.m. I wasn't even out of bed yet and I didn't answer it. It was a call I was expecting at some point today, but my business opens just a tad later than theirs. The next call *still early, was from my daughter who wanted me to meet her for a mommy daughter morning. I had to stop by the office first. Had an agent writing an offer and needed a little technical reminder for the program. Then I was off to meet Abigail.
Not only do I now have pretty toes, I got to spend … (14 comments)

a day in the life of a broker: It's a bird, it's not a plane and it IS superman! - 08/28/12 02:57 AM

I'm a smart girl and yet sometimes I do dumb things. Like this morning for example when I spotted a bird on the screened porch at the office. I went out to let the little scared thing out by opening the screened door. I moved very slowly because I was trying super hard to not scare the bird. I edged the door open ever so slowly and proped it open and then turned around to look for the bird. Oooops, I left the door to the office open and of course the bird is now IN the office.
You are laughing … (17 comments)

a day in the life of a broker: Some days are almost perfect! - 08/01/12 06:00 AM

There are good days and then there are great days. Yesterday was one of those great days. And it had absolutely NOTHING to do with business or money. It was family. First my daughter came to visit me after she voted and brought lunch and we had lunch and talked and visited. And she gave me a really fabulous idea for a future closing gift for clients. Can't wait to debut those a little later. Working on design and it will take a little while to get it right. Then she headed out to visit her Grandparents.
So after a long … (5 comments)

a day in the life of a broker: The customers you just love... - 06/10/12 12:58 PM

Sometimes I have SO much fun with clients. Today was one of those days. I was running late, they were running late so I still got to the office first. He forgot to tell me about one house on his list. We were late for one of our appointments, but in an area where I had no cell service so I couldn't call to alert the agent or the owner. But all throughout the day we laughed.
We took an adventure to the "other side" of the lake today. Nice house we saw, but not the water depth or view we … (10 comments)

a day in the life of a broker: I love when I get to help - 04/03/12 08:32 AM

Hi,I have been reading your information on TITLE issues to mobile/modular homes. My husband and I purchased a new home from XXXX in XXXXX. When interest rates dropped we decided to do a streamline refinance with the mortgage company that had held our business for all of our payments but we found out through this process that there is NO recorded information at our county tax office on our home. I was just wondering if you could give us any names of lawyers who have helped you deal with your title issue problems. We are having an awful time finding a lawyer to … (16 comments)

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