Here in modern day suburbia many of us WAHMs (work at home Moms) have to get creative with how we make a living. Juggling children, husbands, laundry and play-dates sometimes makes it challenging to fit in all the time we need to blog, network, prospect, follow-up, show houses, take phone calls and everything in between to keep our real estate careers going. I'd like to share with some of you the glories and wonders of being a Real Estate Mom.
Time Management:
No longer having the ability to utilize what some may call "work time" us Moms utilize what we call "In Between Time", in between naps, in between TV time, in between snack time etc. We figure that if we can consecutively steal 10 minutes here and 30 minutes there it starts to add up to almost a full two or three hours. Because we don't get uninterrupted sequential work time we have become the ultimate masters of making our minutes count and sucking the life out of every free second we have. Most of us, pre-children, used to have the luxury of what many refer to as killing time, slacking off or taking a breather. Please don't ever use that type of foul language around a WAHM. Telling a WAHM about how you kill time is like telling a starving homeless person on the street about your ddelicious dinner at the local all you can eat Golden Corral buffet restaurant last night. We just don't get it? We can think of 75,000 pressing demands that we could be fulfilling with an extra 30 minutes in our day and we have the list to prove it.
Marketing and Self Promotion:
Having to make the most of our play-dates the WAHM never misses an opportunity to promote herself. While supervising the toddlers playing at the neighborhood park the WAHMnotices a car that seems to be stopping at every "For Sale" sign in the neighborhood. Moms keen senses smell a prospect and quickly picks her kid up (football style), walks over to the car (sometimes barefoot depending on how close to her house she may be) and strikes up a conversation with the potential home buyer. Toddler #1 starts screaming and having the meltdown from. . . well you know. . .while Mom continues to talk over the ultrasonic, banshee screams coming from her child. She manages to win over the prospect enough to get their e-mail address in which she writes down on a ripped out piece of paper from toddler #2's coloring book (that was oh so conveniently stashed in the diaper bag) with a red Crayola marker thus making Mom the ULTIMATE self promoter! (True Story)
Hyper Focus:
One talent you may have known about WAHMs is that they possess the ultimate ability to hyper focus. While taking a phone call during their children's waking hours the WAHM has mastered the coveted zen technique of tuning out any and all background noises. Much like Superman, the WAHM can successfully have a functional phone conversation while:
a. The children are screaming and beating each other up
b. The baby is spitting up on your shoulder
c. The dog is barking tumultuously at the people outside
d. The house phone is ringing every 30 seconds loudly and obnoxiously
Having shared with you the exciting everyday adventures that the average Real Estate Mom goes through on a daily basis to sell homes, all I have to say now is. . .Let's see Dad pull that off
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