Realtors have to watch the spread of the H1N1. We are around so many people and touch so many things, that we can spread illness quickly. My husband, who is a Realtor with me, started coming down with something, and I put him right to bed and isolated myself from him. I got him bottles of this and that and told him to sleep and get well. Five days later he is feeling a little human and is trying not to go back to sleep. His ribs feel like a horse kicked him from the coughing.
As people in sales we aim to please, so when someone calls to see a house or to talk about listing a house, we are there in a moments' notice. Stop, the client we are meeting really does not want our germs, the cough, or our running noise. I remember a number of years ago in my excitement to help a buyer buy a house, I drove her around coughing my head off. At one point she rolled down the window to I think get the germs out of the car. A fellow Realtor of mine thought he could still show houses with the stomach flu. He called from the bathroom of one of the houses he was showing and told me to get their fast and finish his showings for him. You should have seen the face on his buyers when he stayed in the bathroom and I escorted them to my car. A good friend of mine got sick while listing a house and had to ask the seller for a change of clothes and kept saying she would send someone back to clean up the bathroom. None of us need to have these bad stories in our roster of stories.
We can call in sick. We have a right to help ourselves feel better and to help those around us not get sick. I know once we agree to sell houses and be a Realtor, we agree to work 24/7, but this stuff is not worth it. To bed the sickie needs to go and always remember there is another day to fight the good fight in the world of real estate. Can someone get me a Kleenex, please?
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