People often me if I’m staying busy in my real estate work. I always answer that yes, I’m very busy. In fact, in real estate work, there are two kinds of busy. One is being busy trying to find clients to work with, and the other is being busy working for my current buying and selling clients. Agents are always challenged in managing their schedules to spend plenty of time working for their current clients so that they earn a reputation for doing high quality work, the kind that makes clients happy and sparks referrals. But they also have to spend a certain amount of time working on getting the next new client(s) since each closing means that there will likely be no more transactions with that client for a while unless they are investors. We need to be working with a steady stream of clients in order to be able to make a living doing this (we are not on any kind of salary).
Lately, I’ve been spending more and more time working with clients that call me and ask me to list a property or help them buy a property. Of course that’s a great way to be busy, and at least for me, it does seem that business is picking up. Spring is just around the corner, and that usually perks things up. It’s just comforting to see people interested in buying and selling real estate again. I did some comparisons with last year, and the winter and spring back then were quite slow because of everyone’s concern for the fate of our economy. This year, it looks like we’re seeing more confidence, even if it’s somewhat cautious, that things are moving in a positive direction.
I’m happy to be busy working with clients. If you notice that I don’t post to this blog as often for a period of time, take that as good news that I’m too busy to blog! Yay!
