I have spent this week getting my business cards, postcards, decals and new website in line.
Today, I drove around and took down numbers and addresses of homes with For Sale By Owner signs in the yard, especially noting ones with “Price Reduced.”
Tomorrow, I planned to go to the ten closest Sunday open houses to see how “staged” the homes were or were not, so I’d know what I was up against.
Monday was my day to mail out postcards or letters to the homeowners and call on the realtors from the open houses (if they weren’t staged well) and explain the low cost of prepping the home better for the market.
So, here it is Saturday night and my mom just called. She said she wondered if I was ready to call Brian yet. I said “why would I want to do that?”
She said “I think it’s obvious… to see if you can get your job back, since you don’t have any prospects or anything going on. I mean I know you want to do that staging thing, but what if it doesn’t work out?”
I was tired. I responded that I had open houses planned for tomorrow and she hadn’t even given me one day on the job to fail. I wondered why, at this point, after all this effort to make something good happen, would she think I should give in and give up and not even try it out? It wasn’t going to cost me any money to visit houses or contact some realtors that I think are more progressive. It’s so disheartening when you’re about to take part in a race and hear someone say maybe you shouldn’t try and your chances aren’t good.
Damn.
Here’s some examples of what I’m trying to do:
And, here are some from a site that shows after on the left, before on the right. No idea why. Maybe they’re Brits. 
Anyway…
I don’t have pictures on my site yet,
but I did redo the HOME page today.
Annie’s New Website
still in progress,
but coming along
Suggestions welcome, or any
typos/grammar issues also
regarding website. Thanks
hello?
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