I love what I do. I'm excited every time I bring a property to market. Caldwell and Canyon County is a great place to live and to promote. Idaho rocks (bad Gem State pun)! Every day I get to learn something new or head out on the new adventure each transaction brings. I get paid to talk with people all day about changes in their lives and I get to help them along. It's very cool stuff.
This week has been a bit sobering. I've been reminded of the impact our profession has on the lives of our clients and the awesome responsibility that comes with it. I'm humbled by the scope of our duty and the breadth our clients' trust.
I met with a couple today who are contemplating the sale of their home. For a variety of reasons, the time may have come to sell the home they designed and built with blood, sweat and love. We spent almost three hours together, talking about the situation and possible alternatives and it's really looking like a sale is in their best interests. They are heartbroken about the move, in spite of a possible great new job opportunity. They are pained by the stress of the situation on them and on their children. This is, after all, much more than lumber and dry wall to them.
Yesterday I am talking with friends of mine who are also preparing to sell the home they built and have lived in for 14 years. They are leaving the area to return to his home town and start a ministry. The opportunity to go back home, reconnect with family and begin performing a great calling is all very exciting, but there is still that bittersweet taste of loss for the home that has been such a central part of their, and their children's, lives.
As I talk with these couples and tour the homes that they have built over the years, I'm struck by how much these folks are depending on me to do a great job for them. They need me to be enthusiastic about the sale in order to generate the buyers, but they need me to be empathetic toward their loss. They need me to know that this is about so much more than money, but that we need to get every last dime that we can. They need me to love their house almost as much as they do so I can transfer that to a buyer and get a contract, yet they hope I'll find someone who will love their homes as they have. And I have to do it within a limited time frame; life is waiting.
Sobering. Humbling.
I'm so lucky.
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