Blind Dating.... Your REALTOR?!?
An awkward first meeting, getting to know each other by email, spending late nights driving around the city, enjoying meals together, sharing personal information, discovering financial details, making important decisions together…it’s what we commonly refer to as dating. Well call us crazy – but we want you to date your Realtor®. Now, let me stop you right there before you take this the wrong way – we don’t want you to ACTUALLY date your Realtor®, but have you ever stopped to really look at dating compared to finding a Realtor®? We have – and in the month designated to couples, we want to talk about dating.
Firstly, finding that perfect partner who will make you swoon will often take some research. You will ask around about that person to see what they’re like, what they do and what their priorities are. Now, maybe you have more insight to this than we do – but if we wanted to know something about someone, we would go to a trusted source who knows that person, and definitely not to another person that we were considering dating!
Secondly, a reliable resource for finding a partner is not necessarily through a billboard that advertises how great they are, by a lawn sign that shows what they’re “selling” or by an online dating service – while these are tools that can certainly be helpful, they do not give a background as to the integrity of a person. When online dating, people will often change or dramatize facts to get a greater response from the “searchers”. You will most likely have met someone special through a friend or because you were friends first, giving you some peace of mind as to another’s character and intentions.
Lastly, since you’re hoping to ultimately build a great relationship with that person, you will want to make sure that they are honest, trustworthy and motivated. Since communication is the key to relationships, you might want someone who you can feel comfortable divulging very personal information to and who will give you honesty in return.
Now that we’ve covered what dating is, we encourage you to think about those same points in terms of finding a Realtor®. With your biggest lifetime investment, we do not recommend blind dating or even speed dating... (calling the listing realtor of the 7 properties you like will only cause you grief!)
Date your Realtor® the old-fashioned way! Do the research; talk to your friends, have coffee with a Realtor®, ask questions and most importantly get comfortable. We don’t want you out there wandering around lost in cyberspace – get active in the process and be sure to take it slow.
(Pssst…and here’s a secret just between us, we know we'd like the chance to date you!)
Brell and Leah