A real estate agent, friend of mine, yes, Realtors are people too, and I have been known to socialize with their kind from time to time told me he received an office wide email stating,
"Please stop by the front desk to sign up for floor time in April. With floor calls picking up in the last couple months, the schedule has been filling up very fast, so if you won't be in the office in the next couple days, I would suggest that you email or call me with the days that you would like to ensure that you don't miss out."
Floor time, is something that allows agents the opportunity to take calls for that day that come into the office, or walk-ins, (buyers or sellers who come into the office for information and/or a realtor).
Until 2006, where here in Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tempe, Fountain Hills, Peoria, Glendale, Paradise Valley, Desert Ridge, DC Ranch, Troon and Grayhawk,
the phones rang off the hook from buyers seeing for sale signs and wanting information, and sellers asking for help to sell their home and find another. However, that activity died rather abruptly, and Floor Duty was what most realtors would say is a ‘waste of time' (although, I am not sure what else they had to do?) as no one walked-in to the office and the phone didn't ring.
My friend, the Realtor, has been taking a day a week and a day on the weekend Floor Duty. His fellow agents, said, in not so many words , that he was a "fool" for wasting his time waiting for a phone that would never ring and a buyer who would never walk-in the door.
He shared with me yesterday over coffee that an out of state Seller, who had inherited a property recently, walked into the office on a Sunday, when (my friend the realtor was wondering if he himself was a fool to be working that day) This out of state seller need an agent and asked him to list her $1.2 million house.
He was even more excited that he received a call from a buyer who wanted to see a house they had driven by. He showed the buyer the house. Buyer did not like that house. However, they found another house that same day and had an offer accepted for his ‘New' client.
I assure you, he is humble, and was this way before the real estate market decline forced all of us to be, and is not one at all to gloat. However, understandably, was proud of his commitment, encouraged about the real estate market, and had to ask to those naysayers ," Who's the Fool now???
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