The moral of the story is Expectations are real

What kind of experience is your client expecting you to deliver? Are they expecting you to find them a home in a matter of day, weeks or months? Is your client expecting you to sell their home for over market value in a matter of a week? These are all things that the client is likely expecting whether or not you bother to find out. So do yourself a favor and find out the clients expectations from the start so you can manage them effectively. Ask yourself, what kind of experience is the client looking for me to deliver? Failing to know the answer to that question could cost you in a big way. I will share my personal experience of how I personally failed to manage my own expectations and paid the price.

• My wife and I are in the process of buying a home. We knew going into it that it was an active market but we thought our situation would be different since I was our realtor. As you can imagine we did not manage our expectations going into the house hunt. I had failed to manage the expectations of my client (my wife) and it led to unnecessary anxiety and stress. 

• Managing expectations is important with buyers but it is equally if not more important to do when working with sellers as well. I have clients in this market that regularly feel they can price their house high because there is shortage of houses out there. This is not the case, houses that are overpriced tend to sit for a while and only after dropping the price do they get serious interest. 

• At the end of the day all you can do is advise your clients what the best route to go is. What route they choose to take is up to them, but it is important to manage expectations from the get go regardless. Failing to do so could result in it negatively impacting you and your clients relationship. A seller that overprices their house with the expectation that it will sell quickly is not going to take kindly to the reality that it hasn’t sold after a month or more on the market. If you don’t clearly define the expectation the seller is likely to blame you for less than desirable result. 

The moral of the story is that you can’t control what people will or will not do. You can to some degree control how they will or will not react to a given situation. Managing expectations ensure that you and the client are on the same page. A good rule of thumb is under promise and over deliver. No one is going to get mad at you because you delivered exactly what they expected. People will quickly get upset if you under deliver though. This goes back to managing expectations, what kind if experience is your client expecting you to deliver? Answer that clearly from the outset and you will be much better of for it.  

Why do people insist on taking politicians at their word? 

In what other industry or professions could you get caught blatantly lying and disregarding written laws without consequence? I can’t think of one other than politics. Where lying and deception seem to be the status quo. I am tired of the status quo and I think its time for the country to say enough is enough. 

When will people stand up and say enough is enough? 

• I have always been a conservative and I love America. Not what America has become, but the America that used to stand for something. Don’t get me wrong, I believe it still exist in the hearts of many Americans. Despite the spineless behavior of our elected officials I believe that America can be great again. 

• I am not even talking about Republicans or Democrats. The sad reality is that it is to the point that I cant even tell the difference between the two parties most of the time. The political class has no respect or fear of the people that put them in office. We have ceased to be a government of and for the people. Unless you are connected to the agenda of the current administration or the ruling class than you don’t matter. The sad reality is that despite the Republicans being in control of both the house and the senate there is no conservative change. 

Why bank robbers and illegal immigrants are the same!

• When we will we stop the madness that is political correctness and start calling a spade a spade? We can’t call illegal immigrants illegal because it is racist. What would you call people that sneak into our country illegally without any right to be here? If you said undocumented immigrants than the next paragraph is for you.

• How illegal immigration any different from a person who walks into a bank and take a bag full of money that doesn’t belong to him? The bank robber is just making an undocumented withdraw because he wants a better life. This is illegal and prosecuted with prison time (as it should be) but who is really hurt by this? The bank is insured and the depositors are protected so it is a victimless crime. Unlike illegal immigrants who come to America, get on welfare and/or take jobs from American citizens. Both are crimes however one is costing the American people jobs and money and one is not. If you look at it from a strictly logical perspective then illegal immigrants are by far worse than bank robbers. I am all for people coming to America for a better life, but there is a system and laws in place for a reason. By all means come but do it legally.

We the people…

When half the country is being supported by the government with no incentive to find work where does that leave the rest of us? It leaves the middle class being crushed between the rich who get richer and the welfare class that keeps growing. 

We the people who elected the spineless beings that are politicians need to stand up and fight. The constitution was designed to give the power to the people and keep it there. Washington has forgotten its place and it is past time that things changed. Do more than vote, get involved and make a difference. It is the start of an election cycle and the country is at a tipping point. There has never been a more urgent time than now to act.