Another agent and I had a discussion recently - okay, yes, you can call it a pity party - about stress and the concept of "making time for ourselves" - which is often, particularly at this time of year, much easier said than done.
She told me she recently had picked up a new Buyer, had met with her for a consultation and even showed her several properties. The Buyer was not going to be ready to move until at least November.
Ironically, the agent had been debating with herself whether to take a weekend off to attend a friend's wedding because, well, we're wired to always be there for our clients and maybe she shouldn't go. She finally decided she deserved a break and by golly, she was going!
She let the client know she would not be available for the upcoming weekend, as she was going out of town to a wedding and while she would be checking her email and phone messages on occasion, she would not be readily available over the weekend. The client said that was fine.
Well, this client apparently emailed and attempted to call her over the weekend, despite her telling her she was not available - she had seen a listing that not only did not even meet her stated requirements, but was way out of her price range. Never mind she wasn't even going to be ready to seriously look until the fall.
But despite all that, she just had to see it right away.
When she got back in town, the agent called the buyer - who told her she had found another agent who was "more attuned to her needs." The agent was floored - and for a few moments, she felt as if she had made a mistake taking the weekend off.
So, we commisserated for a few minutes about the unfairness of it all and how we really have no time we can ever call our own, then we both laughed and I said, "Wow, you dodged a bullet!"
While no one likes to lose business and it stings when someone says they prefer someone else, sometimes you are better off saying, "next" and moving on with no regrets.
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