AND WE'RE NOT HAVING FUN, WHY?

Purchasing a home as a primary residence is a fun experience. I agree we should treat it that way. I am sure many obstacles were overcomed to close on the home.

While having fun, we have to be careful about making the first remark about a funky paint job in a home. The buyer may just say they like it.

Tish, We've been lucky lately.  We have had FUN with our buyers and looking.  Most of our buyers have just had us sell their home, so maybe the fact that the relationship is usually already there helps!

Yes Tish, you have put your finger on something great. I would love to have more fun, and for my clients to have more fun with the process. Time to  get back to that thinking (while minding the professional details of course). I liked the seven dwarfs:)

Tish!!!! Thanks for a great start to my day.  While I've not been "in the field showing" for quite a while, I can still relate to this post. Now, perhaps more than ever, a sense of humor is an asset.  No doubt, you've got this area covered!!!!

Now, I've heading to "whistle while I work!"

Good Morning Tish! You are right we all should be having a great time while we are doing a job that we love!

I enjoyed your post Tish, but honestly I enjoyed the video more! Gosh I haven't seen that in a while! Thanks for posting it. Yes dear, I do have a child in me!

Hi Tish - we should always enjoy what we are doing. And I like the video as well.

Tish you nailed it, it should be fun and exciting. The birds reminded me of one of my more unexpected surprises during a showing, 2 huge iguanas that were hanging out in a window with the blinds closed. I pulled back one side of the blinds to check the condition of the windows in the home and froze, the clients at least found it amusing, I was a little surprised that there was not some sort of note in the showing instructions.

I try to remind my buyers that are looking at distressed homes as a way to afford a home they might never have been able to purchase before - "Let's all bring along our senses of humor!"

Your post is absolutely true.  We need to make a sense of fun in our lives to be truly happy. Attitude - attitude - attitude.  Love the vid too!

I love this post! Not sure when we lost the fun in this business, but I sure wish it would come back.

Tish - I'm sure YOU make it fun for your buyers!

I like to tell my buyers we're going to do some real important prep work BEFORE we get started (that's an extensive pre-qualification and buyer needs discussion, along with a good explanation of buyer agency and "how we work together"), and THEN we are going out to look at houses and have some fun and find a house!  By taking the time to get all that stuff out of the way up front before we look at houses, they get the opportunity to see me as someone who knows my stuff, that they can trust, (and hopefully, someone who is working differently than my competition). Then they can relax a bit more in the process and we DO have some fun.