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I heals my first open house on a Friday today. I heard they work. Got one great lead an then nothing. So the verdict is still out.

Sleepless night. January had to be re-admitted for high billiruben/jaundice. Jamieson with cold, stayed at friends and developed a fever, Nic getting it, and slept on a chair next to incubator and I. Drove home at 6 a.m. to tend to JJ. I think I see pink elephants.

Your First Day In Real Estate Episode 0047 50 Things I Hate About Real Estate Agents

50 Things I Hate About Real Estate Agents maybe my most controversial podcast. Enjoy.

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1. When they pronounce Realtor as Real-a-tor

2. When they don’t answer their phone

3. When they talk to fast or don’t make sense

4. When they put their graphics on crooked

5. When their business cards look like crap

6. When they don’t have a website

7. When they don’t use a branded email

8. When they dress like crap

9. When they lie about things, experience

10. When they act all that

11. When they try to aha! gotcha!

12. When they play hero and screw up the deal

13. When they hang up the phone on you

14. When they don’t shut off their cell phones

15. When they answer their cell phones

16. When they do loans and sell homes and Amway

17. When they threaten people

18. When they talk to my client 

19. When they play stupid

20. When they don’t follow up

21. When they make their buyer pretend their not locked

22. When they don’t leave a card

23. When they forget to pull their open house signs

24. When they teach others how to sell in their green years

25. When they the lights on and door open

26. When they watch tv at open houses

27. When they come in from out of area and make me take over the transaction and they get paid

28. When they don’t refer out a deal that’s out of hier area and know they should

29. When they are late…very late

30. When they use the wrong photo. IE glamour shot, high school, banquet, tuxedo, or on the phone.

31. When they smell bad, like smoke or b.o.

32. When they don’t text or try to learn how

33. When they write their business info on the card

34. when they leave the combo un-scrambled

35. When they don’t leave feedback

36. When they treat their clients bad, actually i like it if I get the deal but if it fails

37 When they take timelines casually or nonchalant

38. Write multiple offers on homes

39. Work short sales when they have no clue what to do

40.Show short sales to buyers who won’t commit

41.Show homes after my offer is accepted just in case.

42. When they talk down on the economy

43. When they talk down about an area.

44. When they give advise without the contract

45. When they steal a key from the lockbox

46. When they take terrible photos of a home

47. When they spend their time volunteering at the office

48. When they poo-poo new ideas like the internet

49. When they don’t agree with the new contracts

50. When they do lighten up

 

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Stress or Excitement

The Anxiety app What is it about the moment that you begin to feel this way? Just yesterday i was in a court room not as a player but a pawn. I have been called by a bank I work with to state that an ex-homeowner is currently occupying a property that has been foreclosed on. That is all. And yet I get a sudden feeling of fear and panic as if I am on trial for my life. The process of checking in to the court clerk and walking thought the metal detector is unnerving. Having to strip down to all of my non metals and walk through the X-ray machine. I actually asked my self if I am carrying a weapon? I never carry a weapon. My palms begin to get clammy in the silence of the room filled with attorneys. I enjoy watching them on tv and really enjoy their strength and courage during such intense pressure. Then what the hell is the matter with me that I cannot handle being a witness…if I am even that? Why does the pressure of the unknown bother me? Perhaps the answer to my questions lies in question. Let me re-word that. The unknown pressure does bother me. Really? I ask another question, and another. Is my life or the lives of my loved ones at risk of harm? No. Is my livelihood threatened with no option to ever “work in this town again?” No. So I guess there is nothing to fear right? What if I was to drop dead of a heart attack or blow a fuse and stroke out? Totally possible. Then what can I do about that? Nothing. So then what…..nothing. The people I know will live on and I will adapt or die. The fear of death or bodily damage. That is all I fear. Emotional damage is simply a state of mind. Like being drunk. It will pass. Over course of my life I have suffered three episodes of a panic attacks. And countless anxiety attacks. The difference is that in a panic attack you are paralyzed in fear of nothing other than fear itself, a total meltdown of mind. With anxiety it is a mild form of a panic attack and a fear of a full blown “meltdown.” Both are worrisome and both are real symptoms of a false sense of security or a breach of your security. Those around you will not see any signs. It is not like a cold or a bruise. It all happens in the mind. It is all a mindset. My mother and father were with me in my teen years when these emotions where controlling my life. They took me from therapist to therapist looking for a solution. There was never a solution only a fading of the feeling and it was soon forgotten. I remember that he would ask me the questions I just asked about what the real threat was. I was unable to see through the fog of fear and only time lifted the cloud. The only way I can describe this feeling is like taking the wrong medicine. Perhaps the fear of an allergic reaction, or maybe the fear of cancer. The fear of the moment the doctor calls you and says please come in for your test results. Although you insist on getting it over the phone they refuse to speak it. The doctor insists that you come in. You panic. You rush to the doctor in complete fear and almost get into three car accidents. When you arrive to the office it feels like a lifetime. The doctor finally walks in tells you your test results are fine. Suddenly you feel relief followed by anger. I would question why I had to drive all this way and conclude that he simply wanted the insurance to pay for his billable hours and my deductible for his gas money. Disgusted and relieved you walk out completely wiped out both physically and mentally. That is about as close of a description I can give for those who have never felt anxiety or panic. The after effect of these onsets of internal fear can wear you out physically. I feel as if I had a UFC fight in my mind and I lost. I come out of the ring feeling stronger and wiser but now I have revisited the possibility of fear itself. The fear of the fear passes in time. How much time you give to the thought of the memory of the fear will depend on the time it will take for you to forget. If the fall don’t break me the rise will make me. There are two options when it comes to the recovery of the anxiety. You can live in crippling fear and take the drugs to control your mind or turn the fear into a strength naturally. Because the mind is an intangible there is no real way to diagnose the problem and find the cure with the tangible. Drugs and alcohol only work to mask the problem and could potentially lead to bigger problems like addiction or the fear of running out of refills. I have been on these medications and feel that they do help to dull the mind to the point of ignorance. Ignorance is bliss right? Today I awoke early to finish this post and I am less then 3 hours before I have to go to the hospital for my wife’s scheduled c-section and birth of my 4th child. I question the rationality of the same hormones and adrenaline that will inevitably pump through my body as the moment gets closer. I am certain there will not be fear but joyous expectation and exhilaration. I think of the fear my wife has of the large needle for the epidural to numb her for the incision. She is having an operation to “tie her tubes” at the same time. I know nothing of invasive procedures on my body. I suppose I would focus on the good drugs that come after. Oh, and the joy of a new baby.

Your First Day In Real Estate Episode 0046 Getting Back On Track

Your First Day In Real Estate Episode 0046 Getting Back On Track

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Helping Others

I saw a grown man fall down in Target the other day. I did not laugh and no one else saw. I tried not to stare but he looked really drunk and stunned. Out of the corner of my eye I watched as he struggled to get back up. He stood there staring at the ground for some time. Then walked away. It wasn’t until he left that I saw he actually slipped on a large spill of liquid detergent. I thought of him this morning and then realized that I should have helped him up but I know not to interact with really wasted people. I wonder if he was drunk. If he was not, then I feel like a jerk. If he was, I still feel like I should have helped. Next time I see someone in need like that I will not just stare, I will rush over to help. And they will probly tell me to let them alone anyhow.