Brian Foxworth post today inspired me to share this post today. I'm not much of a writer or blogger by the end of the day it's tough to spend a couple of hours reading through great blogging or writing something I think is important enough to share that I think people will benifit by.
Lately My wife and I have been conducting a number of open houses to generate leads. (so far we have been pretty successful). For three week we held open a home In Sun City Summerlin, an Adult Community. We were holding up to 4 opens a week and we were getting pretty good response.
We met people from all over the country coming in and chatting and we heard all the stories of where they came from. In Las Vegas almost everyone is from somewhere else. A lot of snow birds at that time of the year.
One gentleman we met, a elderly gentleman, approached us wanting to purchase a home in the community. Turns out he worked in the same area of Los Angeles where we had our business so we had something to talk about.
A few days later we drop off some listings for him to review and a few days after that we took him out to view homes.
He shared with us he had lost his wife of 64 years last year and he had also lost his son in the same year. Our hearts went out to him and we shared some thoughts as we went from home to home to view. He only has a granddaughter left in another state. He has a very nice home but was thinking of Purchasing a smaller home in the same Sun City community. He had ask me me to search sold comps for the home we viewed and to call him and let him know what they were.
When dealing with the elderly I don't want to rush. I like to give them time to make decisions, so I waited a couple of days and went back with the comps which he was very appreciative of.
He begin to share that it was difficult for him to make a decision as to what to do. So I tried to to help him through the process of why he wanted to purchase another home.
At that time he begins to share how depressed he was at the loss of is wife and that he had not done anything in the past year but hang out at home with-his elderly dog for the most part. He lives pretty much on TV diners and seldom goes out to eat. He told me the other day he was a wood carver and as I looked around his home he had many great figurines he had carved all over his home. He really does great work. But he said he hadn't carved in over a year.
I encouraged him to go to the community center where there are plenty of people to make friends. But he says he has a hard time meeting people. After 64 year friendship I guess he didn't need to meet anyone else.
I thought of my mom when she was starting to get up in years. She had always been a house wife and didn't get out much and really had no friends. When she came to live with us my wife took her to the WomenClub where she just came out of herself and she begin to come alive. Then you couldn't keep her home.
So I thought of what me wife did to get my mother going, and I just knew I would have to do something. It bugged me for 2 days. As I prayed the Lord reminded me of all the people we met as we did those open houses and there must be something we could do or someone to call to help the situation. There was one woman we met who is also elderly and a great lady. She seem to know quite a bit of what was going on in the community.
We wrote an offer for her on the house we had open and if she got the house we would list her home. Well she didn't get the home but we still stayed in contact. So I called her. Explained to her the situation and I asked her if she happen to know of another gentleman that could use a pal. After a little conversation she was open to the idea of them meeting for lunch or something. I hope this works out as a companions for these two. They both could use a friend.
This is not about match making. It about taking a moment of time out of a busy life to give to someone in need. It's about my opportunity to come out myself and to do something I wouldn't normally do. It's not always about money. I know that many of us go to church and give but what about giving a little time, it will go a long way.
This isn't about making a sale anymore, because my guess it's not going to happen for either of them although they are both financially capable, they really don't need to buy anything they both have very nice homes. They just need to stay busy.
We have enjoyed meeting people in this community. All of them the have so much to share because of thier life experience, they just need to find a place to share it.
Well we'll see if this turns into something over the next few days. I'll pray for them and hope there will be a connection for them.
Who do you know who could use a phone call? One of those past clients or prospects that you know about in a special situation. Who do know that can help them? What opportunity presents itself to you today? Will you take that opportunity or are you to busy to even notice. STOP! Go ahead make the call or knock on the door, You'll be blessed.
Ralph
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