Baltimore Real Estate Real Exciting
Looking back over the ten years whilst in the real estate business, I came to the conclusion that real estate agents have a serious load to carry.
Why Do I fell like this? The Baltimore real estate is, that different most other jobs, you are looked at with doubt, the occupation carries a stigma which is a vicious sore to your persona. To turn into successful Baltimore Real Estate agent you have to develop a defense mechanism, it took me years to perfect it, although I eventually did.
Working in the small community of Fells Point added more pressure, one incorrect move, when someone feels they have paid too much for a house, can really have a catastrophic affect on your status and upcoming prospects.
I remember a blusterous prospective buyer storming into our office, his wife following him, and telling all in earshot that “all real estate agents are wicked “.
urgent action was necessary, so I invited him into my office and told him that if what he said was accurate, he may as well buy with the nicest of the crooks, me! I sold him a home that day, we still are great friends, and three years later I sold it for him at a gorgeous profit.
Baltimore Real estate is not every ones cup of tea. I was well into my twenties when I gained my license; I was a newlywed. Weekends were frequently moderately productive, other than one bracket of buyers were my most feared group. They materialize on weekends, more often than not without making an appointment.
He was the rich boy, out to make an impression, usually someone else wife or girlfriend. He had no intent of buying a home in Baltimore Fells point neighborhood; nevertheless she was not to distinguish this. Squiring these sorts around and wasting a couple valuable hours, was a common episode. You had to get it right, what say your judgment proved wrong, and the guy was a legitimate home buyer?
From his point of view, he was to give her the impression he was going to buy and with any luck share with her a very nice love nest. She thinks this guy is loaded and making a rosy future for much future week-end fun. The reality was generally that he was paving the way for tonight and tonight only. The only one to miss out was, you guessed it, the poor Baltimore real estate agent, who wasted fuel and time, and possibly missed genuine enquiries while looking after Prince Charming.
The upside of the job was meeting dozens of first class people to whom it was a pleasure to serve. We have maintained many close friendships from my real estate days, and we value them highly. Earnings were unpredictable; you never knew from one day to the next what lay ahead in the way of sales. You could gain several good listings only to find lenders were more demanding than usual by way of deposit or equity, and lose sales as a result. Maintaining a sense of humor, at all times, was a must, and in this department I was lucky.
Your real success always came through referrals, happy customers being visited by friends, finding out how well their agent treated them, put butter on the table. I thrived in this area, I learned all about first class service from day one as a 16 year old bank employee. I have never forgotten it, it works in every single business, not the least, real estate. Nothing made me happier than to meet a new resident in the street, and be told their friends simply loved this town, they are putting their house on the market and will shortly call on you to find them a nice house like ours. Not hard to take.
Posted by HUD Baltimore Homes on April 24, 2009. Filed under HUD Homes.
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