Here is an excellent question

When does blogging, tweeting, facebooking, and linked-in all become too much in this techy driven era?
I have been getting into tweeting and blogging lately along with uploading youtubes all in an effort to increase my profile and business in the world of real estate. All of this just to buy and sell houses and of course attract clients who want to buy and sell houses. This is not all, in the real world you also have to put the rubber to the cement and actually prospect for clients. I know that my tiny spot on the wide world of the internet is doing something because I am getting traction. I had a client call me because somehow I got a great rating on a site that rates realtors, go figure. so it must be paying off, but tonight as a lay awake while my spouse soundly sleeps, I lay awake trying to come up with my next blog just to make my little mark in the www. and I am writing this blog in the dark so not to wake my sleeping spouse. Then my thoughts run into my next tweet, facebook, linked-in, company blog, ext......
I hate to date myself but I graduated High-school before the Apple/Windows war and now I have to work on my texting lingo....... Jeeze I wonder if I could make a gazillion bucks by inventing the bubblewrap so we can just have bubbles burst out of our heads of what we want to say, tweet, text, or blog...... maybe then my poor tired laptop will have a breather from the ravages of those who get great glee out of hacking and creating viruses.......

well I guess this is my blog for tonight.....
by the way I got out of bed and I hacked my spouses computer password just so I could use their computer to write this blog, LOL   The irony of it all

why is Real Estate like fly-fishing?

You may find this topic a little weird but I have decided it is very true. So now why is Real Estate like fly-fishing?


If you are a fairly knowledgeable fly fisher person you will realize that in order to make the experience of catching Trout enjoyable you have to know the basics and you also have to have finesse. However, there is also the importance of working with the right tools, to make your job of fishing easier. Not the priciest but quality tools, and then you have to practise the art of catch and release as well as patience. The fly is also very important because it is not always the big flashy ones that work; sometimes it is just the simplest, honest, interpretation of the bug that you are trying to replicate to land the big trout. One other point is, If you really want a fish, (here Fishy Fishy) that will be the day that you are not lucky. Trout smell desperation, and feel stress and will stay as far down the river or lake as they can get because they know when and if you catch them you will just yank them in and there is no guarantee that the fish will stay on that fly. Fly Fishing is an art, from the presentation to the bringing in that beautiful trout, either to keep or release. Along with this art is the enjoyment and Zen that brings peace.


So now here's where I compare Real Estate. In Real Estate to be successful you have to know the basics and you have to have finesse. But most importantly your success is also based on the tools of the trade and how you use them. Do you use the biggest flashiest advertising and do you look at each client with desperation and are stressed because you need them at almost any cost? Or do you look at the basics and the finesse as well as the tools and hone them every day so that you can create an artistic, and peaceful, Zen environment, where your clients will trust you because you know and they know that you are working as one to make the experience of buying or selling a home as enjoyable and stress-less as possible.


I learnt a long time ago things never come when you want them to; they come when you need them to. Next time you are passing a stream where they fly-fish, stop and watch the art of the catch. Relax. Now doesn’t that just make you wanna go fishing?

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