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What's LOVE Got To Do With It?

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Hey, I am a real estate agent and I help folks buy and sell the home of their dreams or hoped for dreams. I make a living doing this, but what's LOVE Got To Do With It?

Sometimes there are emotions involved when buying or selling a home. Emotions involving growing up, parents past, neighborhoods when you were young or a new place and a new job and a new family that is still yet to come. Marriages, divorces, loss of loved one, an emotional relocation. Emotions creating joy, laughter, tears and fears can run deep along side an important purchasing decision, usually the biggest purchase a person makes in their lifetime. I am involved and witness all of these things while doing my job.

But back to the original question, 

What's LOVE Got To Do With It?

As Tina Turner sang,  "What's LOVE Got To Do With It? It is only a second hand emotion!"

Is LOVE a second hand emotion?

Can one love their job?I guess so but at what expense? In my book love is for God and then next to family and possibly your country.

However, can one as a real estate agent "love' their relationships with people and clients going through the emotional experience of buying or selling their home, my job? Can one "love" their home, with family memories and pleasant surroundings?

Hobbit home

Can one love a home no matter how cute and memorable? (Hobbit home, Pixabay)

Well, I guess I really don't know if I can love my job. Love does involve emotions, even if it is a "second hand emotion" as Tina Turner sang in her famous song.

But to have a job as a real estate agent, where you can be part of a person's journey or family and their huge family emotions involving the last stage or next stage of their life, I have to feel it is a privilege.

Maybe not LOVE, but a privilege.

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Roy Kelley
Retired - Gaithersburg, MD

Let's continue to spread love and kindness every day.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Feb 13, 2025 11:36 AM
Jeff Masich-Scottsdale AZ Associate Broker,MBA,GRI

LOVE your comment Roy. Jeff

Feb 13, 2025 11:45 AM
Lew Corcoran
Better Living Real Estate, LLC - East Bridgewater, MA
Expert guidance. Exceptional results.

This is such a thoughtful piece, Jeff Markell! I appreciate you sharing your perspective on the emotional side of real estate and how you navigate those big life moments with your clients—it's definitely more than just a transaction.

Feb 13, 2025 12:01 PM
Jeff Masich-Scottsdale AZ Associate Broker,MBA,GRI

Hi Lew, this is Jeff Masich. Thank you for your observations. Emotions can  equal LOVE, but LOVE does include emotions. Real Estate and a home can be very emotional. Jef

Feb 13, 2025 12:05 PM
Rosalind Nicholas
RE/MAX Condos Plus Corporation, Brokerage - Toronto, ON
Toronto Condo Real Estate Agent, Toronto ON

I like your hobbit home picture!

Here is my picture of hobbit homes that I took while visiting NZ a few years ago.

 

Hobbit homes

 

Can you see the tiny hobbit homes in the distance?

Feb 13, 2025 12:02 PM
Jeff Masich-Scottsdale AZ Associate Broker,MBA,GRI

Way cool Rosalind. People can LOVE a hobbit home I believe. Strong emotional bond it seems. Jeff

Feb 13, 2025 12:07 PM
Dorie Dillard Austin TX
Coldwell Banker Realty ~ 512.750.6899 - Austin, TX
NW Austin ~ Canyon Creek and Spicewood/Balcones

Good evening Jeff,

You are right it is a privilege to be part our clients journey in home buying or selling. We feel so close to families, and their emotions as they move onto different stages in their lives.

Feb 13, 2025 03:08 PM
Jeff Masich-Scottsdale AZ Associate Broker,MBA,GRI

Yes a privilege Dorie. Folks due trust their real estate agent with many emotional aspects of their life journey in the process of selling and buying their next home. Some of it just spills out when I ask the question, "What type of home would make you happy". Jeff

Feb 14, 2025 03:19 PM
Anna "Banana" Kruchten
Retired Broker/Owner - Phoenix, AZ
602-380-4886

Jeff I have no problem with saying love is involved when working with so many our our clients over the years.  Many of them started with me in the early days and we've been working with each - and enjoying each others company for years now.  In fact many of our clients know each other and we get together quite often as a group for parties. Is that love.  Yup!

Feb 13, 2025 03:17 PM
Jeff Masich-Scottsdale AZ Associate Broker,MBA,GRI

For sure Anna, those long term relationships can be a type of love. It is wonderful to stay in contact all of those years. Hop on the Banana Express! Jeff

Feb 14, 2025 03:21 PM
Carol Williams
Although I'm retired, I love sharing my knowledge and learning from other real estate industry professionals. - Wenatchee, WA
Retired Agent / Broker / Prop. Mgr, Wenatchee, WA

Hi Jeff,
This is an interesting perspective.

Feb 13, 2025 04:05 PM
Jeff Masich-Scottsdale AZ Associate Broker,MBA,GRI

Thank you Carol. Love or a privilege? To enter the experiences and emotions of other peoples lives.

Feb 14, 2025 03:22 PM
Kathy Streib
Cypress, TX
Retired Home Stager/Redesign

Hi Jeff- I love what you said ...it's a privilege!!! It's something I envied and admired while working as a stager. I rarely saw my sellers more than once. 

Feb 13, 2025 04:26 PM
Jeff Masich-Scottsdale AZ Associate Broker,MBA,GRI

Interesting Kathy that you may have enjoyed having  a deeper relationship with your clients and to see "how it all turned out". It is a privilege to become so involved with a real estate clients life and the last stage ending and the next stage in life starting. Jeff

Feb 14, 2025 03:25 PM
Pat Starnes-Front Gate Realty
Front Gate Real Estate - Brandon, MS
601-991-2900 Office; 601-278-4513 Cell

I can love a lot of things, and Tina Turner is a favorite. I also believe we can "love" what we do. If not, I would never have lasted in this business. The type of love is different than the love we have for our family and friends. We can agree that we encounter a lot of emotions in every transaction we are a part of, and it is indeed a privilege to assist our clients through the challenges of buying and selling a home.

Thank you for participating in the February "love" challenge!

Feb 13, 2025 04:30 PM
Jeff Masich-Scottsdale AZ Associate Broker,MBA,GRI

Thanks for the challenge idea Pat and for reading my post. I do agree with you that there are many kinds of love. I like another line from Tina Turners "Whats Love Got To Do With It". She sings "Who Needs a Heart, cause a Heart can be Broken".  Love has that attribute as well. However it is a privilege to be amongst the emotions of buying and selling a home and for a time being part of their lives...sometimes longer. Jeff

Feb 14, 2025 03:28 PM
Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
Pasadena And Southern California 818.516.4393

Hello Jeff - time spent in real estate, participating perhaps but practicing it for sure, can open one's eyes to a lot of situations.  Financial decisions are evident, but they combine with emotions in all sorts of mixed-up ways.   Now there's a challenge that Tina Turner could ably turn into a lyrical treat.  

Feb 14, 2025 04:28 AM
Jeff Masich-Scottsdale AZ Associate Broker,MBA,GRI

I like it Michael. Mixed up emotions and financial decision all come at me as a Realtor and yes Tina Turner singing about it would have made this situation clearer and toe tapping that my post does. At least I have her video that Whats Love Got To Do With It! Nothing but a second hand emotion. Who needs a Heart when a heart can be broken" Now we are talking! Jeff 🙂

Feb 14, 2025 03:32 PM
Ed Silva, 203-206-0754
Mapleridge Realty, CT 203-206-0754 - Waterbury, CT
Associate Real Estate Broker

Emotions can overcome the reality of the activity. Just because the sellers have the strong emotions doesn't mean it translates to a high sales price.

Feb 14, 2025 05:08 AM
Jeff Masich-Scottsdale AZ Associate Broker,MBA,GRI

You are right Ed. An emotion from a client such as I really LOVE thats particular house (for any number of reasons) can result in a higher home price. Maybe they just HAVE to buy a home on the street they grew up on and they rarely go on the market. It does happen occasionally. Emotions do get involved. Jeff

Feb 14, 2025 03:34 PM
Gloria Todor
Premier Property Sales & Rentals - Springfield, PA
& Doug Durren (484) 431-3686 in SE PA

Jeff, I hear you weighing the use of the word love to describe your relationship with your work in real estate.  Love can be too strong a word for some things if one equates love with strong emotional feelings. 

Thanks for the song.

Feb 14, 2025 04:53 PM
Jeff Masich-Scottsdale AZ Associate Broker,MBA,GRI

Yes, Gloria, Love may be too strong so I concluded with a "privilege" as a more appropriate word than Love. After all, as Tina sant, "What's LOVE Got To Do With IT? It's only a second hand emotion. What good is a heart, if a heart can be broken". Jeff

Feb 15, 2025 07:05 PM
Patricia Feager
Flower Mound, TX

Jeff Masich-Scottsdale AZ Associate Broker,MBA,GRI - I like an honest salesman. May you succeed by marketing the way you do. 

Feb 15, 2025 03:37 AM
Jeff Masich-Scottsdale AZ Associate Broker,MBA,GRI

Look'em in the eyes and tell them  what is so. Jeff 🙂

Feb 15, 2025 07:06 PM
Wayne Martin
Wayne M Martin - Oswego, IL
Real Estate Broker - Retired

Good morning Jeff. If you love what you do the people you work with have the privilege of your service. Enjoy your day.

Feb 15, 2025 03:51 AM
Jeff Masich-Scottsdale AZ Associate Broker,MBA,GRI

Very nice there Wayne you worked in LOVE and PRIVILEGE. I am with you. Thank you. Jeff

Feb 15, 2025 07:07 PM
Debe Maxwell, CRS
Savvy + Company (704) 491-3310 - Charlotte, NC
The RIGHT CHARLOTTE REALTOR!

We are so blessed to love what we do and it is truly a privilege to meet and build relationships with our clients. Many are lifelong friends and I do love working with them; regardless, it is certainly a privilege to serve each and every one of them.

Thank you so much for sharing such a thoughtful post - and, of course, Tina Turner - in this month's ❤️ challenge! 

Feb 16, 2025 02:37 PM
Jeff Masich-Scottsdale AZ Associate Broker,MBA,GRI

Thank you Debe for your comments. It is a privilege to be brought into the lives and emotions of others. Jeff

Feb 20, 2025 04:50 PM
Hannah Williams
HomeStarr Realty - Philadelphia, PA
Expertise NE Philadelphia & Bucks 215-820-3376

Jeff Masich-Scottsdale AZ Associate Broker,MBA,GRI Working with a buyer when choosing a home and loving it is a privilege. When the seller is looking for a buyer who wants the right price and terms for their home. When it is achieved, their gratitude is incredible. Where is that Feature button?

Feb 20, 2025 09:20 AM
Jeff Masich-Scottsdale AZ Associate Broker,MBA,GRI

Thank you for your kind comments Hannah. Yes a privilege and a blessing when the buyer and seller are happy and we get to participate in the journey. Jeff

Feb 20, 2025 04:51 PM