One Fine Day

Real Estate Q & A with Real Estate Mogul-in-Training, Michael "Ziggy" Danziger:

Q: How many property showings did you have scheduled today?
A: Three

Q: Not bad. How many did you go to?
A: Three

Q: Good. Just making sure! How much driving did you do to today get to and from these appointments?
A: I drove 73 miles.

Q: Wow! You know that's a rate of almost 27,000 miles a year? Is that normal?
A: It happens. That's a pretty heavy day of driving though. Two of these appointments were almost 30 miles away from my office.

Q: I see. Very interesting. And how much time did you spend traveling to and from, and being at these showing appointments?
A: Two hours and forty-seven minutes, plus a few minutes at the office preparing for each.

Q: That's a lot of the day, huh?
A: It was, indeed.

Q: Now, how many of these appointments did you solicit?
A: None of them. The meetings, and the times for which they were scheduled, were all requested by the other parties.

Q: And did they all show up?
A: No.

Q: You mean one of them didn't come to a meeting that they asked for?
A: I wish that's what I meant!

Q: What do you mean?
A: None of them came to the meetings that they asked for.

Q: None of them showed up?
A: Not a one.

Q: Is that normal?
A: More normal than you would think. Unless you think that a lot of people have very little consideration for other people's time and effort. Or unless you think that a lot of people really don't know how to use calendars. Or unless you don't think. Ever.