When I started in real estate...

It started out when I was only 19, being fascinated with homes, architecture, décor- you name it.  I attended a real estate licensing class during the year I took off from college to see if I could break into the business, but alas, it was very expensive and I was BROKE.  So, back to college… twice!

After being a nurse in Spartanburg, South Carolina for six years and still having another four years to pay off my student loans, I quit my nursing career to once again try my hand in the real estate business.  It’s funny now that I have been in the business for a decade, I know all too well that you don’t “try out the real estate business, it tries you out”.  That was a saying I heard many years ago and I am confident that the real estate business has accepted me for who I am with all my faults and uniqueness.

This is the beginning of my 10^th year in the real estate business and I am so glad this is my chosen profession.  I love getting to meet new people and be faced with a different kind of challenge every day. I have fun showing houses, love to negotiate, feel challenged to see what it will take to get a house sold in any given market, still enjoy the decorating and so I encourage a great deal of home staging.  All in all, this career choice has been great for my family too.  I may have to work crazy hours, but that flexibility has allowed me to participate (or be a spectator) in so many things I am sure I would have missed throughout the past 10 years.

Thanks to all of you that have made me a success during this crazy time in the real estate industry and please know that I am NEVER too busy for any of your real estate referrals!

Falling back into the swing of things...

So the blog sounded like a great idea (months ago) and it still does.  However, many of my so called great ideas come and go, as did this one too.  Time management, content to write about and LIFE in general get in the way of blogging.  So, my first attempt to get serious about this blogging thing is to make it routine.  I don't mean like a habit that I have to do it for 30 days none stop and then I won't think about it anymore.  I want to write interesting information and want honest feedback on it.  I am NOT a writer by any sense of the word, but I want to convey fun and hopefully useful information to anyone who stumbles upon my site.  I now have "Blogging" on my calendar twice a week and whether than mean write one day and publish another or publish both days remains to be scene.  My goal is to blog not less than one time a week and NOW that goal is in writing.

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.
Fitzhugh Dodson