Anticipation

There is always an excitement about going away as the time approaches and the anticipation starts building towards the day or the event. Isn’t that true with you too? For me it definitely is!

Well, for me, next week is rebarcamp Ohio and I am getting excited about it. It is my first barcamp to go to. I am been wanting to go to one of them since I first heard about them in New York City before the Inman Conference. Since then, I have been following the rebarcamps in Atlanta, Charlotte, Philadelphia, Boston, Phoenix, and San Francisco. Here is a link to the sites:

Fortunately for me, Bobby Carroll from Dakno Marketing was there to video stream many of the sessions and I was able to participate in a small way and pick up some good ideas and tips. Use this link to watch the next one if you can’t attend the next one.

You might ask, What is a rebarcamp? It is an unconference where real estate agents and others get together to learn from each other. It has grown out of a desire for real estate agents to network and improve their business by using social media.

Since their inception last year in August at the Inman Conference in San Francisco, they have sprung up all over the country. Once again real estate agents are taking the lead to use and promote the newest technologies in their business.

Are you? If you aren’t call me, no twitter me at @RochesterREguy and I’ll get you started.

Crazy Job! With People or Alone?

This job of real estate that I have been working at for the past 31 years is a crazy job! From the outside looking in, it seems as though I would be with people all day, driving buyers around to houses, showing them through the houses, writing up offers, negotiating on the offers, spending time at home inspections, sitting through the mortgage appointments, and on and on!

However, the truth of the matter is I spend most of my time alone!

Does that surprise you?

More of my day is spent researching and searching for homes for my different buyers, phone calls following up on showings of my listings for feedback, calling contractors for quotes on repair items, phone calls to the mortgage companies to find out what documents they still need for the mortgage application, phone calls to the buyers and sellers, driving to listings to show buyers and their agents through my listing, and on and on!

The fun part of this job is when you are with people. However, you can’t have one without the other. The time I spend working alone is what pulls it all together.

So if you are thinking of looking into real estate as a career, a question I would ask you is, “How do you do working on your own?” Have you done anything like that before? If you aren’t good at working alone or have never done it before, this job may be very difficult for you. I love this job because I love being with people and have the ability to work well on my own.