{"id":7726,"date":"2009-04-08T08:41:38","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T15:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=7726"},"modified":"2009-04-10T10:00:37","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T17:00:37","slug":"if-for-the-real-estate-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/7726\/if-for-the-real-estate-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"IF (…for the real estate crowd)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A little Hump-Day fun.\u00a0 (Apologies to Rudyard Kipling<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n

If you can keep your deal when all about you
\nAre losing theirs and talking of failure to you;
\nIf you can trust your client when all clients doubt you,
\nAnd understand their doubting too;
\nIf you can wait and not be tired of writing offers,
\nOr, being lied to, don\u2019t deal in lies,
\nOr, being rejected, don\u2019t deal in scoffers,
\nAnd yet don\u2019t look too good, nor talk too wise;<\/p>\n

If you can dream of clients – and not make clients your master;
\nIf you can think of volume – and not make volume your aim;
\nIf you can meet with REO agents and short sale specialists
\nAnd take pride in what you do just the same;
\nIf you can bear to hear the comps you\u2019ve spoken
\nTwisted by appraisers to make agents fools,
\nOr watch the escrow you gave your all to broken,
\nAnd start again with new marketing tools.<\/p>\n

If you can save 10% of all your winnings
\nAnd run through a prospecting plan,
\nAnd gain nothing, and start again at your beginnings
\nAnd never make complaint or show you ran;
\nIf you can force your assistant and lender and staging pro
\nTo serve your turn after they want to be gone,
\nAnd so hold on to that open escrow
\nWith nothing but the Will to say: \u201cHold on\u201d;<\/p>\n

If you can talk with banks and keep your virtue,
\nOr walk with Brokers – nor lose the common touch;
\nIf neither real estate coaches nor time vampires can hurt you;
\nIf all clients count with you, but none too much;
\nIf you can fill the unforgiving minute
\nWith sixty seconds\u2019 of marketing done;
\nYours is the farm and all the transactions in it,
\nAnd – which is more – this profession will be fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A little Hump-Day fun.\u00a0 (Apologies to Rudyard Kipling.) If you can keep your deal when all about you Are losing theirs and talking of failure to you; If you can trust your client when all clients doubt you, And understand their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired of writing offers, Or, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,29],"tags":[533,78,111],"class_list":{"0":"post-7726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-flourishing","7":"category-group-therapy","8":"tag-marketing","9":"tag-short-sales","10":"tag-success","12":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6516,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/6516\/please-no-more-listings-i-cant-afford-them\/","url_meta":{"origin":7726,"position":0},"title":"Please No More Listings! 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