So we Moved!

"Dear Goodness Gracious", as my mother used to say!  Moving is so much harder than it looks and is so much more time consuming.  I would imagine that is partly due to the fact that one cannot see the many complexities involved in planning and executing a move all in one look or glance in time.

My office moved back to its old digs at the Columbia Lakefront near Lake Kittimaqundi in April.  What were they thinking?  It gets us back on the ground floor which is good in the real estate business and I am settling in.  I personally did not have a lot to move as my primary office is and always has been at home.  Last Thanksgiving I moved my office into a separate room for the first time ever in my home.  What a difference!  Still a lot of work. New connections, equipment, new hiding places for things I need and cannot find. So organized.  Just got that sorted out and our office moved, including replacing our printers and updating our computers which of course meant delays and confusion, but miraculously I had the best Spring in my 30 year career and I want to thank all those who have worked with me this year to buy or sell real estate.  You are all awesome and I am loving my job!

As systems improve and processes are mechanized and computerized, our office is getting into the 21st century by shifting to DOTLOOP which will allow my office to find new ways to go paperless. It presents challenges as those of us who have seen contracts mushroom from 3 pages to over 50 have to leave the carbon paper of the 80's behind and learn to fill out and sign the on-line forms of today.  When ever it takes me twice as long to prepare an offer than it did in the past, I remember that I am not having to get in my car and drive to 5 different real estate offices to get 5 different sets of keys to 5 different properties to show buyers who would show up after I had collected all the keys, then I had to keep them separate and not loose them before returning them all to the correct offices after the prospective buyers had left my office. That is what helps me look forward to the new challenges in the world of real estate.  As my mother used to say, "Never a dull moment!"  Enjoy the rest of your Summer!

P.S. I have not had time or the ingenuity to replace the old office address on this blog with the new one.....maybe over the winter I will get to that! Phone numbers are the same though!