Prospectations

     Today was my day to work on prospecting FSBO properties, and to start working on my new Craigslist campaign.  I participate in a Listshare program in my office, which allows me to advertise a few of my peer's listings along with my own.  Recently, our office made some changes to the guidelines for advertising Listshare properties on Craigslist.  Unfortunately the changes will affect the volume of leads that I'll be able to gather with my current strategies, but thankfully my preferred lender has presented me with a free method of lead capture.  This tool will allow me to post Craiglist ads with a text message, contact-capture mechanism.  It will also allow me to double post my listings, as I can now advertise the same listing in two different formats.
     Sadly, I did not accomplish my goal of scheduling three listing appointments; however I was also calling on a Thursday in the middle of the work day.  I'll spend some time making calls this weekend, when I'm more likely to catch people at home.
     As I mentioned in an earlier post, I signed up for floor time this Saturday from 10:00am to 12:30pm.  I was planning on doing maintenance on my website with this time, before another agent approached me about helping him finish some reports, and he offered me $10 for each one.  It shouldn't take me longer than around 10 minutes to pull the necessary information to complete each report, so I'm really looking forward to playing the "Floor Time Lottery", and getting payed $50-$60 an hour at the same time.
    I was a little bummed to receive the news that the buyers on one of my listings had rescinded on the contract.  They were gracious enough to leave my sellers the earnest money deposit and not use the inspection clause to walk away leaving my sellers empty-handed.  Although I am a little frustrated because of the lost time, I think we're priced well and shouldn't have a hard time finding another buyer.  The buyer's agent is from my own office, and I'm very impressed with his honesty and promptness in notifying me of the buyer's decision.  I work with good people :-)