During a real estate class last year, I realized that Realtors speak in code. The class was made up of mostly new salespeople. As I watched the poor newbies in that class, I wondered if they felt like they had fallen into a black hole and popped up in some foreign land where they didn’t speak the language. Those of us who were experienced in the field rattled off conversation that left the new Realtors looking bewildered and lost.
That image led me down one of those spontaneous rambling thought processes that often leads to my blog posts, and it looked something like this:
- You might be a Realtor if your dining room table doubles as a desk.
- You might be a Realtor if your car cigarette lighter doubles as a charging
station for your laptop or IPad, Smartphone, GPS, etc. - You might be a Realtor if your idea of a short sale is a contract that ratified in 12 hours or less.
- You might be a Realtor if your broker is your first emergency contact.
- You might be a Realtor if you have a wireless printer stored in your car trunk.
- You might be a Realtor if you have a vanity license plate that says BUYNOW, combined with a window decal “www.SuperRealtor.com.”
- You might be a Realtor if your first child’s initials are EMD.
- You might be a Realtor if you’ve learned to put on eye shadow, eat a sandwich and set up your next appointment while driving down the highway at 70 mph.
- You might be a Realtor if you’re an REO Specialist with no foreclosure experience.
- You might be a Realtor if you ask the homeowner for unconventional
conveyances. - You might be a Realtor if your sales team includes your spouse, kids and the dog.
- You might be a Realtor if the string of initials after your name would make a PhD green with envy.
- You might be a Realtor if your Christmas cards include a business card.
- You might be a Realtor if every up or down real estate news feed inspires you to post, “It’s a great time to buy.”
- You might be a Realtor if you have interchangeable sign riders that say, “It’s a buyer’s market. Buy today!” or “You know you want it!”
- You might be a Realtor if you have mastered the art of describing a pole barn as “Beautiful country setting, spacious property with plenty of room to expand and wonderful views of wildlife.”
- You might be a Realtor if every listing description ends with “This won’t last long. Act today!”
- You might be a Realtor if your vacation hotel locks you out of their complimentary business center.
- You might be a Realtor if you tell a client, "Sure, I can work you in at 1:15 pm" while on the way to your 1:30 pm appointment on the other side of town.
- You might be a Realtor if your first three speed dial numbers are your preferred lender, your closing attorney and the termite inspector.
- You might be a Realtor if you love helping people realize their dreams!
You get the idea. The list could be ten times longer. So, what would be on your “You might be a Realtor” list?
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