I utterly enjoyed working my business this week. The traffic to the site has been very encouraging indeed if you’re looking for early signs of what 2007′s market may bring. As measured by daily unique visitors, traffic this month is higher than for any month out of the last eleven, and some 23.3% higher than the average during that period. On Tuesday the call and email volume got to be so high that frankly I got a bit grouchy (you know, chocolate is great, but too much chocolate will make you sick), so I had to hand off taking the calls to one of my referral agents for a few days to catch my breath.

I had a transaction in Folsom I was nursing this week that didn’t come together, so we’re going out to look at more homes tomorrow in El Dorado Hills and Elk Grove. These clients, by the way, are looking for something newer, four bedrooms or five preferable, 2,500 to 3,000 square feet, up to about $580,000 list. They need to have a bedroom and full bath downstairs. If you’re a seller just thinking about selling such a thing, call me and we might be able to save you money with a private (non-MLS) transaction: (530) 672-9160. Of course, if you prefer to list your home in the MLS to take advantage of that huge buyer pool, plus take advantage of exposure with a company that gets lots of Internet buyers through many different consumer friendly sites, we can get that done for you, too.

Several other clients are in the getting ready stages, and my team’s transactions are coming along nicely as well. Bridget is doing a fantastic job by any definition you’d care to apply, and as a broker and sales manager, I probably couldn’t have asked for a better first hire. I finally hunted down the cheat sheet for transactions that I’ve been saying our profession should publish for about a year now. It’s been there all along, I’ve just relied on others when I had questions.

I’m always amazed at the extent to which Realtor® education is good in the realm of general background, yet skips over many important fundamental “mechanical” elements of the job we do. It would be as if you let a surgeon go through medical school (though it’s nothing hardly that intense), and without a surgical internship you handed him a scalpel and said, “Here, go out and see if you can find some patients and I’ll show you where to cut.”

And many in our profession leave early, because they don’t have the patients for it.

If there’s a lowest common denominator pun to be had, I hope you’ll feel you can count on me.

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