Agent Will

It can be pretty hard as a realtor to balance work, family, and personal pursuits. Think about it. As a client you likely work Monday to Friday, 9-5 (plus all those undocumented overtime hours). When you need your realtor to be active is likely after 5pm weekdays and on the weekends. In other words, my busiest on time is likely your off time.

So when do we get breaks? Well, we do not have to be in the office by 9am. Just ask the last realtor who told my clients realtors do not work in the morning (Thank you for telling them that, I found four including myself who do). All the same, it is rare for us to be in the thick of things at 9am. That’s one perk to being a realtor. We get to work our own hours.

And that’s the one real downside to being a realtor. We get to work our own hours… not days. It can be pretty hard to take a day off. Unless you schedule it. Which is what I do. I do not work Wednesdays. But this post is on a Wednesday? Ha! It was written yesterday and delayed on the publishing.

No. No Wednesdays, unless it’s an emergency. You’d do the same for your clients/company if they really needed you on a Saturday on Sunday, right? I also try to take off, though have only been marginally successful, Tuesdays. That’s my “weekend”. Tuesday/Wednesday.

Oh, yeah, I answer calls and respond to emails but I try to limit the amount of interference my career has on when it is family time. Oh, and that picture above? That isn’t me. I don’t even own a hammock. My father did and he would rest in one every weekend when he wasn’t too busy with sports or work. Maybe that memory served as the inspiration for down time as a sole proprietor.