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So you just got your real estate license? Can you come here for a second?

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Real Estate Agent with RE/MAX Compass 0524642

Congratulations! You just got licensed! i'm so excited for you! I wanted to personally give you this gift. I know you don't like purple, but this bag is very durable and you'll soon learn to appreciate quality over quantity in this business. 

 

Betty Bookmark opens her purple bag and finds the following:

 

1. small nails, tacks, washers, screws and heavy dbl sided tape.

2. towing rope

3. hard hat

4. Pancho.

5. Vaseline, aspirin, vodka and smoke.. along with a baseball bat.

6. A 3 pound sledge hammer, regular hammer, screw drivers, measuring tape.

7. jumper cables.

8. 1 roll of don't squeeze the Charmin toilet paper - the good kind.

9. wading boots.

10. emergency deodorant, comb, nose hair clippers, q-tips and mouth wash.

 

Betty Bookmark rummages through the bag and immediately pulls out the vodka and much to my surprise drinks the entire bottle.

Confused and shocked (even impressed) I ask... what the hell are you doing?!?!

Betty replies,

"I'll be dammed if my ass is going to have a break down on the side of the road with no toilet paper, a dead battery, a picture that needs to be hung in the freezing cold while wearing wading boots in an ugly ass hard hat!! I don't even wanna know what that damn sledge hammer and baseball bat are for!!!

 

Greg:

I guess we can talk about the vaseline & screws later.

Posted by
Greg Nino
Realtor
RE/MAX Compass 
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Realtor since 2004
Mediator & Arbitrator for the TX Assoc. of Realtors
Member of the Professional Standards Committee for the TX Assoc. of Realtors
Arbitrator for the Comptroller's office for the State of TX for Arbitration of Property Tax Values

 Member of the RE/MAX Hall of Fame & Platinum Club

 

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Comments(28)

Bryan Robertson
Los Altos, CA

Could you really pass this along to all the newbies who sign on for this business so they get some measure of understanding how it really works?  While it's not necessary to have quite all the stuff in the bag, most of it, especially the vodka, would come in handy after trying to sell a few homes. :)

 

Jul 29, 2011 04:43 AM
Evelyn Johnston
Friends & Neighbors Real Estate - Elkhart, IN
The People You Know, Like and Trust!

Okay, Greg, you out did your self on this one.  I laughed out loud...

Jul 29, 2011 04:47 AM
Emmary Simpson
Las Cruces Homes and Land - Las Cruces, NM
Serving Las Cruces, NM

You forgot the cattle prod.

Jul 29, 2011 04:48 AM
J. Philip Faranda
Howard Hanna Rand Realty - Yorktown Heights, NY
Associate Broker / Office Manager

True story: The guy who came up with the "Don't Squeeze the Charmin" ad campaign is from my town. He passed away last week. 

Jul 29, 2011 04:54 AM
Susan Emo
Sotheby's International Realty Canada - Brokerage - Kingston, ON
Kingston and the 1000 Islands Area

Send more Vodka please!

Jul 29, 2011 04:59 AM
Anna "Banana" Kruchten
HomeSmart Real Estate - Phoenix, AZ
602-380-4886

So what I want to know is what is in the brokers bag?  lol

Jul 29, 2011 05:02 AM
Steve Loynd
Alpine Lakes Real Estate Inc., - Lincoln, NH
800-926-5653, White Mountains NH

That is just the stuff to keep in your trunk...the stuff in my desk and office closet, represent the serious stuff.

Jul 29, 2011 05:48 AM
Alan May
Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL
Home is where the hearth is.

my first year in the business (biz-nass), I went through a 55-gallon drum of Vaseline... the "good" stuff.

Jul 29, 2011 05:56 AM
Larry Story ALC
Total Care Realty - Greensboro, NC
Beneath it all is the Land, Covering all of NC

I think she was on the right track.  I would have gone for the vodka first also.

 

Jul 29, 2011 06:11 AM
Doug Rogers
RE/MAX Coastal Properties - Destin, FL
Your Real Estate Resource!

You might want to include a new liver in the goody bag...

Jul 29, 2011 06:57 AM
Samantha Smith
214.422.0729 www.SamIAmHouses.com - Rowlett, TX
Sam I Am Houses, Simply Texas Real Estate

Ha~larious! Gotta talk to my broker to pick up my bag!!!

Jul 29, 2011 07:43 AM
Karen Winters, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Koenig Rubloff Realty Group - Chicago, IL - Chicago, IL
Chicago, IL

They should pass that bag around on the first day of pre-licensing class. 

Jul 29, 2011 07:58 AM
Justin Dibbs
Fairway Independent Mortgage - Ashburn, VA
Mortgage Advisor

Vaseline....too funny.  That and the baseball bat, priceless.

Jul 29, 2011 09:19 AM
Kaera Mims
Liz Moore & Associates - Fort Monroe, VA
Associate Broker, e-PRO, REALTOR; Hampton, Newport News, York Co.

I wish someone had given me a bag when I got in the business. Don't forget duct tape - duct tape fixes EVERYTHING! 

Jul 29, 2011 10:31 AM
Brenda Mullen
RE/MAX Associates - San Antonio, TX
Your San Antonio TX Real Estate Agent!!

That's a very scary bag...cept for the Vodka :)!

Jul 29, 2011 11:01 AM
C Tann-Starr
Tann Starr & Associates, Inc. - Palm Bay, FL

LMAO!!!! The handbag from hell. I love this (LOL). :-)

Jul 29, 2011 11:24 AM
William J. Archambault, Jr.
The Real Estate Investment Institute - Houston, TX

Greg,

Did "Happy Hour" start early today?

Bill

Jul 29, 2011 12:45 PM
Ruthmarie Hicks
Keller Williams NY Realty - 120 Bloomingdale Road #101, White Plains NY 10605 - White Plains, NY

Lots and lots of Vodka...I was never a drinker until I started in real estate....no - I did drink while doing the last leg of my thesis.....

Jul 29, 2011 04:59 PM
Carla Muss-Jacobs, RETIRED
RETIRED / State License is Inactive - Portland, OR

What no "straight jacket" with a Realtor(r) pin, or emblazoned with the brokerage's logo??

Jul 30, 2011 06:58 AM
Kathy Schowe
California Lifestyle Realty - La Quinta, CA
La Quinta, California 760-333-8886

This is awesome!  What about Q-Tips, and and a toilet plunger??  Rat-traps and Wasp-spray?

Jul 30, 2011 12:46 PM