{"id":12436,"date":"2022-08-28T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therealdaily.com\/?p=12436"},"modified":"2023-08-28T19:21:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T00:21:26","slug":"realtor-way-of-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/editorials\/realtor-way-of-working\/","title":{"rendered":"How the world is catching up to the Realtor way of working"},"content":{"rendered":"

Until you start working in real estate, you have no idea how many hours per week<\/a> the career truly entails, like how insanely late or early clients will call with urgent needs, how much you live in your car, and how novel the memories of a 9-5 are.<\/p>\n

From the outside, it looks like you can do anything you want when you want, and yes, you have some flexibility,<\/em> but successful agents are seriously devoted to working their tails off. Many sacrifices are made, meals missed, and the idea of a non-working vacation is not usually a reality for practitioners (even when there is an assistant and\/or team at play, but there’s always something<\/em> only you can answer).<\/p>\n

You’ve changed a shower head in your client’s listing to appease a picky buyer and get the dang closing done, you’ve kept your promise to attend every closing (even on your wedding day – true story, my husband did that secretly).<\/p>\n

The internet has only changed the process, not the number of hours worked. Technology has made Realtors more efficient, but as a population, you’ve just added more to your plate and worked even harder.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With the advent of smartphones and wifi, other industries have now adopted the same always-on<\/em> pace and mentality, and it occurred to me recently that the entire workforce has now adopted the Realtor method<\/em> of working all day and figuratively all night.<\/p>\n

“So to the rest of the world, I say, welcome to the club!”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Veteran Realtors can tell you that the pace can be grueling, but that the concept of work\/life balance isn’t some new wave buzzword-filled theory, no, it’s been the Realtor way<\/em> for decades upon decades.<\/p>\n

So when people complain on Facebook about their boss calling them for some arbitrary reason at 10pm, or complain on Twitter that a customer expected an instant response at 1am, just tell them gently, “Welcome to the Realtor way of life!” because you’ve been adapted since the day your license number was issued!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How do you respond to people that complain they’re working at all hours? Just welcome them to the Realtor way of life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335811,"featured_media":19628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[253,1234,1720],"class_list":["post-12436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorials","tag-editorial","tag-real-estate-news","tag-worklife-balance"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/10\/two-people-working.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/335811"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12436"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20582,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12436\/revisions\/20582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}