Relocation Clients are a different client. Different in the fact that its all rush, rush. You can't squeeze in a couple of houses over a few weeknights.

Normally, as it was this weekend for me, it was a "hit the pavement fast and hard". We began early (9:00am) and I made the schedule begin with a vacant home. It's early to ask sellers to leave their home on a weekend. Normally I start at 10:00am, but we had a lot of homes to visit in a short amount of time.

Unfortunately, I only got word on Thursday that Mr. Buyer would be in town. Talk about clearing the schedule - fast. I knew exactly what would happen if I wasn't available.

I verify ahead of time who my passengers will be.  If kids are coming along, I allow extra time at homes, breaks for meals, supplies for entertaining in the car, and 'different' snacks.  This was just the Mr. so I grabbed both of us a large bottle of cold water and some snacks. No break was planned.

After we toured about six homes, we were able to cross a few off of the list. It's tough to pick them when he doesn't really know what PA homes look like. Hard for me to chose when I don't know his taste until we are out.

My camera is always within reach - and it came in handy to take some pictures for Mrs. Buyer who stayed with the kids in FL this trip.  The plan is that she'll visit me for a weekend and we'll spend it together as well.

I also have a hard clipboard with a container. I have the Client Copy of the homes we will visit & a map of the area on top. In the clipboard I have mints, hand santizer, highlighter, pen, pencil, paperclips, and index cards. (I have permanent marker with "Please return to Kim" at the top) *This is always a big hit.

It was a productive weekend. We narrowed down his area and also what his preferences are. I just hope Mrs. Buyer has a similar idea of what she would like when its her turn.