Real Estate Business and Phones

The up side to real estate is the big money that’s involved and how you can get a large percentage of it if you play your cards right.

I have sold many houses that were more than 50% profit, this is huge.  If you look at other businesses the percentage of profit they make is so much smaller I really lose interest.  I keep thinking about reading that a grocery store has to be very careful about shop lifting because they only make 1% on many of their items.  Of course they move a lot more stuff but to me it just seem like a lot more work.

On the down side - I was just thinking:

• When you’re in the real estate business and the phone rings it costs you money.


• If you don’t answer the call then it usually costs you more money.  

I would get 200 or more calls per day, my cell phone would keep track of the minutes I talked and it came out to 4 or 5 thousand minutes per month on my main cell phone.  Plus I talked on other phones a lot too.  

Your life really revolves around your phones, and this can really get old.  Carrying around 3 cell phones all the time is a hassle. But I was afraid I would miss a call, at one time I even put a phone in my shower.  There is always a problem that is costing you money and if you don’t take care of it, tomorrow it will cost you more.