{"id":10703,"date":"2009-12-24T05:05:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T12:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=10703"},"modified":"2009-12-23T22:27:41","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T05:27:41","slug":"my-car-is-not-a-real-estate-office-in-2010-my-car-is-going-to-become-a-wi-fi-enabled-mobile-real-property-exchange-and-conference-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/10703\/my-car-is-not-a-real-estate-office-in-2010-my-car-is-going-to-become-a-wi-fi-enabled-mobile-real-property-exchange-and-conference-room\/","title":{"rendered":"My car is not a real estate office. In 2010, my car is going to become a wi-fi-enabled mobile real property exchange and conference room."},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is the car we bought for me in July<\/a>. It’s a used Kia Rondo, a semi-unassuming wannabe minivan that I have denominated with this demanding appellation: Prometheus.<\/p>\n

My favorite god, as you might have guessed, from all of human history. Prometheus<\/a>, you will recall, stole the fire of the gods from Zeus and gave it to the people. An alternate reading of the Greek cites Prometheus as having borne the gift of mind to humanity, a rendering of the tale I like even better. If you are a life-sucking real estate broker or any other functionary of the life-sucking National Association of Realtors, the memes that move me will tell you a lot about my long-term plans for you.<\/p>\n

But: Sometimes a minivan is just a minivan. I chose the Rondo because a client of mine rented one when he was in town, and I realized it was the perfect real estate car. I had looked at more expensive so-called “crossover” vehicles, but we have practiced and perfected the art of being cheap bastards. At ten grand out the door, the Rondo seemed like the optimax choice.<\/p>\n

And this has it proved to be. I’m in it a lot, and it is a very comfortable roaming office for me. I don’t know how other Realtors deal with all the lengthy phone calls that go into selling real estate, but I take down a whole bunch of them from my car. I can make anywhere from one to five calls between stops, and if I were not doing those calls from behind the wheel, I wouldn’t be doing them at all.<\/p>\n

But wait. There’s more. I bought the Rondo because I knew I would be doing more and more real office work from the car. The vehicle has three cigar lighters, and I have 300 watt 110 volt power inverters plugged into two of them. That is to say, two three-prong outlets in the front seat and two more in the back. I could be working on my laptop, an assistant on another and a client on a third, all of us plugged in to Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the car we bought for me in July. It’s a used Kia Rondo, a semi-unassuming wannabe minivan that I have denominated with this demanding appellation: Prometheus. My favorite god, as you might have guessed, from all of human history. 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