I am absolutely in love with my job. It can be a very stressful time in peoples lives with all the details of preparing a home for rent or for sale. Dealing with the many vendors and juggling appointments with service contractors can be very overwhelming. Then there is the marketing period of professional photography and vetting fantastic tenants or well qualified buyers! I love removing that stress. I thoroughly enjoy prepping a home, painting, remodeling, landscaping, even clearing it out and moving junk to the junkyard! Finding that home a new steward is extremely rewarding. This being said, I also love architecture, design and style. I love going to open houses and on brokers tours simply to look at how other people live or in a stage house, how they could live!

Covid has not changed my love of Real Estate. However, it has made it much more difficult to show property. If a home is occupied, only 3 people can be in the home at one time, so that can make showings very limited. Everyone also needs to sign a disclosure about the risks of entering a home that could potentially have covid-19. We are also not allowed to do open houses or broker tours so it does make it difficult to meet new buyers and sellers or to meet groups of people wanting to rent homes. Everyone must have an appointment, sign a disclosure,  have reviewed all pictures and videos to try and get an appointment to view the property. In reality, my job has gotten so much busier!

I have learned how to use my video feature on my iphone pretty well! We have to be exceptionally clean and sanitary by wiping down door handles and surfaces, so I travel with a cleaning kit. I drive a lot! I am constantly showing properties since I cannot send clients or potential tenants to open houses. So glad the price of gas is low!