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The office my wife works in is terrible and she avoids it at all cost. A bunch of catty women and non-producing agents sitting around nosing into other peoples business trying to steal clients or gossip and waste time. These losers should stay home and do some prospecting instead of just hanging around the office doing nothing.
funny how that never changes....was the same 10 years ago....again, no one ever made a fortune sitting around the office waiting for the phone to ring. We also had people that used to hang around waiting to snag floor time from people who don't show up or show up late. We had an old agent with the patience of Job that would sit at his desk for hours on end waiting for floor time slots to open up per people not showing up. Many would call him asking to cover for floor time. He made a good living for a retiree solely from up calls, but that was seven years ago. By 2003, people were just calling listing agents directly from signs and realtor.com, and floor time became almost a dinosaur overnight. After that, even retirees with nothing to do didn't bother taking it.
To sum, the office is the great time-waster bar none......
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The office my wife works in is terrible and she avoids it at all cost. A bunch of catty women and non-producing agents sitting around nosing into other peoples business trying to steal clients or gossip and waste time. These losers should stay home and do some prospecting instead of just hanging around the office doing nothing.
Man does that sound like my very first real estate office. 1979. I used to show up at 8:00 and everyone else showed up at 9:00. Guy calls and wants to sell his house and I started to play the Tommy Hopkins game with him (I'd just been to a seminar) and the guy says get over here now! I take the listing below market with FHA VA terms on it. I think I still have the scars from the fingernails of the angry housewife real estate agents. Man they were competitive! Sold it that night for the market price with agents and clients in the cars outside.
I knew I'd never be able to work or manage a place like that, I'm sorry to hear they still exist.
My office has desks / cubicles available. Non are assigned however. Most of my agents work out of their home offices and come in when necessary to turn in paperwork etc. I do have some however that come in religiously everyday as working out of their home distracts them.
I have an office at the brokers and a home office. I use a transaction management system and store everything as electronic forms. That way, I have everything in either location. If I receive something at the office that I need to see at home, I email the clerical staff a bar-coded cover sheet and have them fax it to me. This sends it to my email and to transaction management. Since I live 20 minutes from the brokers office, this saves me from having to run into the office or hang around waiting for documents.
The majority of my work is done from home. I have the office at the brokers so I have a place to work in between appointments, a place to leave the paper files. We do occasionally get floor calls which are transferred to my cell phone if I'm not in the building.
I think it's important to spend time at the brokers office. It gives you the opportunity to interact with other agents, promote your listings, discuss ideas, etc etc. Maybe our office is unusual - we actually work together, help each other. Of the 65 agents, about 20 of us are there either every day or on a regular basis. Those 20 are also the most successful, if you measure success in transactions and dollars.
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Hi, i am doing an A-Level Design project and I would be grateful if you could follow the link below to my blog where I have written a few questions to help me with my research section
My project is to create a workspace for study using space that already exists so no additional space is needed, this is likely to be done by using existing bed space so that the bed can be used as a chair. The desk would also be designed to be stored away, possible against a wall.
If anyone casn give me any advice, it would be very helpful
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