Tip # 99 Real estate: clean up before the doorbell rings
Your real estate agent already warned you once before: dont wait until the last minute to clean up the yard and tidy up the house. The open house is going to take place any day now. Youve put it off until the day before, and the cleaning up is taking longer than you thought.
Next day, the doorbell rings, and the weeds were not pulled out, the shrubs not trimmed, the hallway not cleared of clutter, and the kitchen faucet is leaking. The closets are unrecognizable. The books on the shelves are covered in dust. The flowers are wilting. And you forgot to do thisand that
The buyers said thank you anyway, and looked at another house.
Grab it and find your way out of the dark hole.
The Great Procrastinator
Perhaps this is too simplistic a statement or merely echoes another familiar marketing come-on, but it does translate into a variation of the work ethic.
One of the large companies we worked for had at least five different reports on inventory: inventory of return merchandise, inventory of obsolete parts, inventory of parts on allocation, etc. It prevents you from thinking and acting intelligently, hence you procrastinate. Tip # 49 Arrgh, here comes the collection bag again Do you know how much time is wasted when people go around collecting money for things like birthdays and retirements? |