{"id":9423,"date":"2009-08-01T13:44:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T20:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=9423"},"modified":"2010-04-01T20:49:07","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T03:49:07","slug":"realtors-in-the-coffee-shop-and-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/9423\/realtors-in-the-coffee-shop-and-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Realtors in the Coffee Shop and Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time for a little fun, and time to laugh a little at my own profession and at myself. Okay, I’m in a coffee shop. I’m doing some work on my laptop, checking and answering emails, and writing some articles. So imagine the humor in the following scenario. I’m a Sequim Real Estate<\/a> agent writing on my real estate blog when a customer walks into the coffee shop. Now I rarely pay attention to what other people say, but if they speak loudly and the words catch my ear, I can’t help it.<\/p>\n

I hear one of the employees serving coffee say to a customer, “Oh, you’re a Realtor?” The reply was from an older woman whose health did not look good, and carried little enthusiasm, “Yes, I work for [so and so broker],” to which the young female employee loudly and enthusiastically replied, “I’m a real estate agent too!”<\/p>\n

I laugh to myself, because one of my observations is that every Tom, Jane, and Mary got a real estate license because it seemed like an easy way to make money. Does anyone not have a license?<\/p>\n

I look around the coffee shop. There’s an old man with thick spectacles sitting two tables away, apparently reading the classifieds. He doesn’t move at all for minutes. Has he died? No, he turns to the next page. I wonder. Is he a Realtor?<\/p>\n

A woman and a girl about 13 years old are sitting across the room at a little round table. Is the little girl a Realtor? No, I remember you have to be an adult to get a license. I think.<\/p>\n

Two bicycle riders stagger into the shop, all sweaty and obviously hot and tired. Are they Realtors? Could be, but I hear no dialogue on real estate issues emanating from their mouths. But I do pick up some phrases, like “It’s hell out there,” and “a person could die in stuff like this,” and “I don’t know if I can make it.” Wait a Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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