Gift Realty NM

Eloise Gift
Gift Realty NM

First Day

Today marked an important milestone in my life and business. I completed the final step in launching my own brokerage by finally going to the New Mexico Real Estate Commission to request the transfer of my associate real license for that of a qualifying broker and am not sure why I waited this long to make the change. As they say where I grew up, the longest road has a turning and so I have come to the turning in my real estate career road.

Deciding to activate my qualifying broker’s license is a significant yet insignificant step. The more things change, the more they remain the same. What’s different and what’s the same? I have given up my former de jure physical address to which most of my mail was sent and now I won’t have to drive five miles to pick up my mail. It will arrive at the mailbox at my previously de facto and now also de jure office. I have the same phone number, same email address, the same clients and customers wanting same information, attention and results.

Tomorrow I will awaken, go to the gym, return home have breakfast, get dressed and walk across the hall to my office as I have done most mornings for five years. I will make and return phone calls, read and reply to emails, write or update contracts, read and reply to snail mail, pay bills, write thank you notes, break for lunch and in the afternoon, go out on appointments or preview homes.

With respect to responsibility for getting things done, the buck now stops with me, as it should have always. But in real estate, the QB bears ultimate responsibility for most of the sins of the associate brokers. They get hauled over the coals if their associates err. If I screw up the QB will still be taking the heat. But, guess what? Now I am the QB, the go-to person, the chief cook and bottle washer, the decider; and the buck stops with me.

First Day

So how did I spend my first day as a QB? This day started with a very illuminating tour of a neighborhood park construction site. Then it was clean-up day. After leaving the office of the Real Estate Commission, I spent several hours in between calls updating online and hard copy files. We leave footprints in so many places so I retraced my footsteps at some sites and made new footprints at others:

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In keeping with my customary schedule,I ended the day with a listing appointment before heading out to one of my community activity board meetings. The more things change, the more they remain the same.