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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry, I find it hard to believe that a law firm associate was completely exhausted and overwhelmed by the stressful world of residential real estate. Just....no.[/quote]

Another agent and new to this thread.

I was going to comment last night but got distracted. (Working. Until 11:30 p.m.)

Anyway, I'm not surprised by this at all. We had a lawyer do the same thing, left her firm to join ours. She didn't make it a month. The things she needed to do to hustle and build up a business were too difficult for her and she went back to a steady paycheck.

It's not easy for sure. We do things that end up resulting in nothing - spending a lot of time on them. I've spent time searching with clients for 4-5 hours a week or so, for 7-8 months only to have them decide to stick to renting. That's 150 hours (almost 4 weeks of regular job time) of working without pay.  I've had a client come in from out of town who needed to buy a house in the weekend and spent all day Fri/Sat and Sunday with her only to have her come back and do it again another weekend (which I cleared for her and pushed off other clients) and then she hijacked another weekend and tried to write an offer of $450,000 on a $600K house.

Rare is that slam dunk offer that someone looks at a few houses or goes out in one day and finds something.

I could go on and on. You just have no idea what we do until you actually step into our shoes and do it. I haven't had a vacation in a year and a half. This Christmas will mark 2 years. Last year I was looking at houses on Christmas Eve and New Years Day. Your life really isn't your own. I love it so I don't mind, but it's not just like we sit around all day doing nothing.

Today I have to go to a property and get it ready for pictures, clean it up, move some furniture around and make it as bright as possible on this cloudy day. Then the pics come in and I go through them and select the ones for a brochure, write that, send it off for processing, put the listing in the system, set up the open house times, confirm with clients that those times work, etc. It's just a shit ton of your own admin work. And I refuse to trust an admin I would hire because it's my own business and I can't let go of control like that because it's my reputation on the line.[/quote]

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