8am: new construction 90-day post-move-in walk thru - builder walks thru the home to make sure that all the cabinets are working, grout/caulking is intact, no leaks, etc... I see a trend that this is commonly done by the larger, national builders but less so for the smaller local developers and builders in our area.

This Saturdy was one of those half work/half home days. It's possible (but not easy) to turn completely "off", but today was not one of those days. 

Started the morning contacting someone interested in selling their family's home in San Mateo and relocating to the Palo Alto area. Played a little phone/email/text tag, but we were able to connect and schedule a tentative meeting for Tuesday. I know there are some agents that think that they must pick up every phone call otherwise they will lose business. I'm not one of those agents. Our business is hard enough as it is with just returning phone calls! If someone is not willing to wait for me to call them back at a more appropriate time, then what value do I have as an agent? Chopped liver is all that I would be. What's your value?

7:31 am: received a random call from someone saying that they noticed that my office hours were posted as opening at 7:30 am (have no idea where that would be) and they were at my office looking for me. Beware of the non-scheduled-drop-in-out-of-nowhere prospective clients… I usually tread very lightly here.