Small updates...

So in conclusion to the last post that I wrote about.... my clients love the home. I am so relieved, you have no idea!! But since then, Chris's truck got broken into parked in our own driveway! First time since I have lived at the home has something like this happened. The cops got several other reports the same day so someone targeted our neighborhood that night. His truck is always a target so it is no surprise that his car was hit where as our roommate's car was not. They were parked right next to each other too. We have since put up the brightest motion sensored light in our driveway and Chris is now parking in the garage. We were getting lazy with not putting stuff away in the garage so this has taught us an important lesson. Over the weekend, we cleaned and dejunked. We found places for everything. He got some suits stolen, a check which we have cancelled, his check book with his acct numbers (the worst thing of all to have stolen since he had to close his acct and reopen a new one), and a bunch of little odds and ends. What JERKS!!

Trust!

The house...
I don't normally share work stories but I am going to today. It isn't everyday when something new happens. Well, new experiences happen all the time in real estate but usually they are along the same wavelength. But today... I want to share a first for me.

So in all my years of selling, never have I had a client trust me with the house they bought so much that they never have seen it themselves!! So get this, I have a military family moving here from Wisconsin. They searched online before they came out- for weeks. I went out and previewed homes for them and sent them pictures. We got a huge list of homes to see when they got in town. I think we saw about 50 homes atleast when they did arrive in town. They were in town for a week and we looked at homes everyday. We placed 3 offers in that time. Due to us being outbid on the first home (this is typical- buyers have to miss out on one home because they want to "offer a lot less". They get stung with reality and then they make normal offers after that. It's normal and I deal with it on every client almost). We got that out of the way. On to our second offer which the seller decides at the last minute that they want to rent their house now instead of sell. Tough luck lesson #2. So we are back to the drawing board a day before they are leaving to go back to Wisconsin. They are starting to get that freak out feeling since they can't take more time off work to come out and look at houses. They pick a home the day they leave and place an offer. We go under contract and move forward.

I still looked at homes after they left. I don't know why but I just did. Turns out, I found one that I thought they would like and I sent them photos. I went back again and again to the house. In my mind, I think they will love it but I am not sure. You never know. They talk it over and want me to place an offer. Ok so I move forward still not totally thinking it will go thru. That was 3 weeks ago. They just closed on the home today. It is officially their home. They have never seen the house!! They relied 100% on me. I feel so much pressure. Tomorrow is the moment of truth. They are in route here from Wosconsin with a moving truck and I am so nervous!

small painting job

BEFORE (paint and fixture upgrades only) photos....
Gawd awful vanity and floor I know. One step at a time....
BEFORE photo of office
AFTER photo after paint and fixture change (light, towel bars, etc.)

AFTER photo of office
Not major improvement but every little bit counts. One glorious day, I will get a new bathroom vanity and travertine the shower and floor. I am excited for the happiness of that future day. Until then, this small improvement will do. You have to celebrate the small victories in life right!

Dream board

To make a FREE online dream board (that you can print), go to www.digitaldreamboard.com. I love this website!! It turns out amazing!! You put images from the internet on it so you don't have to go out and buy magazines and get a close version of what you want. I love putting my goals up so this dream board is my new favorite thing. I put it together in about an hour and it is the best dream board I have ever done. I even put it as my desktop background. I hope someone loves it as much as I do!! Again, it is free and so easy. And when you accomplish a goal, your dream board is saved so you can go in and easily replace the one image with another. Such cool stuff!

Moving work offices

our old building

Old office
Old conference room in old office
New conference room in new office!!
Our new office building
Next to Famous Daves-yummy barbaque!
We are upstairs on the second floor. You can see the reception desk thru the window.
Here we are packing (photo to come) up the old office as we prepare to move to a nicer building in Midvale area. Most real estate offices are downsizing and a lot of offices have closed their doors even. Luckily I am with a brokerage who is expanding in this crazy market. I am grateful to be with Everest Realty Group even after being there almost a year. After going thru an interesting previous year with Remax...(basically them not living up to the hype that they build plus some other things), we are very content in our new or not so new office. We still pass our old Remax office everyday and we see the car numbers shrink as more and more of their agents have and still keep coming over to our company. It makes me chuckle because we were the first ones to jump ship close to a year ago and a steady supply of agents (good ones I might add) have followed us. We are in a great environment which we hope continues. You know when things are good, sometimes you wonder how long can they really last as they are?? Well, I continually ask that and in my head, if I stay happy with Everest for 2-3 years, what more can I ask for. Anything more will be icing. So that is all I give it in my head. I've found it is sometimes better to have lower expectations than higher....old age maybe too.

So anyway, we are still getting our office settled with the move. Our building is next to Famous Daves if any of you are familiar with the area. Every time I walk outside around lunch I smell yummy baked beans and meat. That place probably gets a lot of traffic from our building. How can you not want to eat there every stinkin day!