While we're not moved to our new home yet, we do have a camera that sends a photo alert when the motion detectors are triggered. There are plenty of deer on the mountain, but a couple of weeks ago the camera gave us our first bear photo. Just a little after sunset, the bear was ambling down the street.
The nickname Wild Wonderful West Virginia isn't just advertising based on wishful thinking, it's a reality. Our current home just north of Cincinnati doesn't have much in the way of threats other than coyotes and the occasional hawk that might think a Chihuahua looks like an appetizer. But where we're heading, black bears aren't uncommon, eagles, and the nope ropes come in copperhead and eastern diamondback varieties, so we do have to consider how we set up our bee yard and our dog exercise areas and keep the buzzers and barkers safe.
Part of our real estate business is determining which expenses we want to continue to bear :)
How many domain names do we REALLY need? With Go Daddy not the $9.99 shop they used to be and seeing some .info domains asking $42/year, is it time to stop "bearing" it and strip those off our expense list? Small bites in the big scheme, but small bites add up.
As retirement nears, is there value in keeping two licenses active?
Should I get a West Virginia license after we move? While I could learn what I need to, starting over in a new area with all that comes with that doesn't appeal to me at this point in my life. We'll test drive the referral only model for a bit for any customers from our patio home and IDX search pages, and it that doesn't work out positively, maybe a 100% retirement from real estate will be what's in the picnic basket for us.
One of the perks of ActiveRain is you can see every type of business model and how to approach retirement from someone in the community. Keep going 100% or gear down anywhere between 100 and 0%, someone here is living that life and blogging about it.
As it is, I'm doing more cherry picking lately about our potential clientele. I'm less willing to bear bad behavior than my early years in this profession. Life is busy, and those who are happy to waste time are costing me something I can't get back. There's a limit to how much I'll grin and bear it :)
Until next Tuesday, just Ask An Ambassador if you need help,
Bill & Liz aka BLiz
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