Cold but Productive

Even though Tuesday was supposed to be the coldest temperature on record here since 1988, it was a productive day.  Sometimes when it's cold (and I'm not used to cold), it is easier to skip the morning walk, sleep in a little and avoid the outside world.  Well, I DID skip the walk - but not the avoid the world part.

I quit talking about it and made an agreement with a great agent to do transaction coordination work for me.  There's a lot of paperwork - on-line paperwork that is - in this business, and it's important to my broker that it be done both accurately and on time.  A great transaction coordinator - and Jen Link is great at detail - will do that for me.  So we've agreed to give it a try.  At long last, that'll free up time to do more business generation.

My client accepted a good offer on her duplex on Raintree in Sun City.  Inspection period begins today.  Assuming all goes well during inspection and subsequent appraisal, she'll be able to proceed with her move to the Midwest.  This is exciting stuff for her - and accepting the offer is just the next big step in her project timeline.

We got short sale approval on another listing in Sun City, with a closing date that gives my client plenty of time to complete the estate sale that she has planned.  I love it when good things happen.

Two new leads came in - one through a colleague in Prescott, Gerald Semanski, who refers a client from Chicago.  Looks like I'll help him search for a condo in Glendale or Peoria.  The other lead came from an internet search:  a couple from San Antonio looking for a retirement home in Sun City and they want to be moved in by April 30.  Buyers are  a blessing.

I'm serving on my office's Agent Leadership Council again this year.  We had our first meeting of 2013 - some new agents are serving and our meeting format is a little different.  Looks to be another group of  top producers with good ideas and big hearts.  It is a privilege to work with them.

Twenty-nine agents in my office have signed up for Family Reunion - February 16 in Dallas.  I'm one of them.  Family Reunion is Keller Williams all-agent conference held every year - a coming-together to meet with other agents, learn more real estate technology, be exposed to what top agents are doing to help their real estate clients be successful, learn what's going on in the business both in the nation and in Canada, and get jazzed up about what we do for a living, why we do it, and how to do it better.  That's one long sentence.

And on a personal note - found a sale on ruffled scarf yarn at Michaels, had lunch with my friend and assistant, Denise Myrick, and went to choir practice.  A productive day.