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Feb. 7th, 2015 07:05 amThank you for the supportive responses to my last post -- it's just like I said; my friends are amazing and wonderful and make me feel good. I love you guys so much.
In professional news, real estate is really picking up! I have one sale pending (I am the buyers' agent, and it is set to close on 3/16), and all of a sudden I have several new clients that I'm working with. I'm taking a family out on tour tonight in SW Portland. I met these guys when I had a fish tank emergency last week and was in and out of the aquarium store all weekend. On one of my later visits, the guy who was helping me mentioned something about going to lots of open houses with his wife. You don't say! So I asked him if they were working with a Realtor yet, and when he said no, I gave him my card and told him to get in touch. He's been taking AMAZING care of me with all my rookie fish tank problems, and I'm going to take equally amazing care of his family when we look for a house. His wife called me the next day and I've been sharing listings with her all week. Looking at 5 tonight, then probably 5-10 more tomorrow. Suddenly all my free time is filled with clients and I have some direction in my work. It feels great. Makes me wonder about my insurance job, though, and how much longer it makes sense to stay there. Even with all this business going, the paychecks are slow to come in -- I don't get paid on anything until a few weeks after a successful closing, and I put weeks of work into it before that happens. So even if I start making deals left and right this week, it'll be at least six weeks before I'm paid for any of it. So, even though I'm much busier with real estate, I have to still squeeze it into my time off from claims for now. I have been feeling extremely busy and overscheduled. But I'm happy with what is on my schedule, so it's okay.
My aquarium now has 5 fish. We had a bit of a tank catastrophe last week, and I'm still working on fixing that, but thanks to my fish guy, I've got temporary fixes in place for while I figure out the major stuff, and the fish are content. I got two bright orange clown fish, and one really beautiful Bangai cardinal. I'll add pictures soon, but I haven't had any time to photograph them because it's been nonstop maintenance for a while. Fish tankin' is hard work, y'all. But I'm doing it, so there.
In professional news, real estate is really picking up! I have one sale pending (I am the buyers' agent, and it is set to close on 3/16), and all of a sudden I have several new clients that I'm working with. I'm taking a family out on tour tonight in SW Portland. I met these guys when I had a fish tank emergency last week and was in and out of the aquarium store all weekend. On one of my later visits, the guy who was helping me mentioned something about going to lots of open houses with his wife. You don't say! So I asked him if they were working with a Realtor yet, and when he said no, I gave him my card and told him to get in touch. He's been taking AMAZING care of me with all my rookie fish tank problems, and I'm going to take equally amazing care of his family when we look for a house. His wife called me the next day and I've been sharing listings with her all week. Looking at 5 tonight, then probably 5-10 more tomorrow. Suddenly all my free time is filled with clients and I have some direction in my work. It feels great. Makes me wonder about my insurance job, though, and how much longer it makes sense to stay there. Even with all this business going, the paychecks are slow to come in -- I don't get paid on anything until a few weeks after a successful closing, and I put weeks of work into it before that happens. So even if I start making deals left and right this week, it'll be at least six weeks before I'm paid for any of it. So, even though I'm much busier with real estate, I have to still squeeze it into my time off from claims for now. I have been feeling extremely busy and overscheduled. But I'm happy with what is on my schedule, so it's okay.
My aquarium now has 5 fish. We had a bit of a tank catastrophe last week, and I'm still working on fixing that, but thanks to my fish guy, I've got temporary fixes in place for while I figure out the major stuff, and the fish are content. I got two bright orange clown fish, and one really beautiful Bangai cardinal. I'll add pictures soon, but I haven't had any time to photograph them because it's been nonstop maintenance for a while. Fish tankin' is hard work, y'all. But I'm doing it, so there.
