As a
Realtor, I have the opportunity to engage with individuals from all walks of
life - including those who share their spiritual beliefs. The client you are to
read about below is one that has genuinely shared her trust and belief in God
with me. It is the life she lives and
demonstrates to her friends and family that brings her faith alive.
My client wanted to move out of the Miami area.
She was ready and eligible to retire and her goal was to begin to live
her golden years. However, to make her
goal become a reality, it was vital for her to sell her house and relocate to
an area of Florida where housing was more affordable. Being able to sell her home would afford her
the possibility to make a sizeable profit. With the proceeds from the sale of
her Miami home, she would position herself to financially purchase a new home
in cash and be mortgage free – a goal most people would like to accomplish!
She had
visited my home in the Treasure Coast area.
She was impress her with the area and most importantly was impacted
with the affordable home prices. After
her visit, she contacted me to inform me that she had received a contract on
her Miami home and that she had decided to move to the Treasure Coast. As her
Realtor, she asked me to find her a house on the same block I lived on. I
replied to her was that it was impossible to find a house on the same block. She
simply replied to me, “I will pray about it.” I did not have any idea how I would
find a house on the same block my house was on- or even in my area. FOR SALE houses in my neighborhood were
rare. Her request to find her a house in
my area – and quickly- was a tall order!
Finding a house on the same block as my house was an order much bigger
than me. Prayer, like she said, was the
only thing I could hang onto.
I walk my
dog 2-3 times a day. My dog typically
walks the same daily route. One late night
in October, I walked my dog later than usual. As we stepped out the front door,
my dog kept pulling me to walk the opposite direction from where we typically
walk. I followed her lead and we walked
the opposite direction. As we were walking back home, I noticed that one of the
houses on my block had a lockbox on the door, however, there was no FOR SALE
sign on the property. It is common to have sellers who prefer not to have a
sign on the property. I went home to
access my MLS to find out the price of the house. I was not able to find it on the MLS. It felt like a dead-end.
The next
morning, I woke up early in order to walk toward the house again. I wanted to confirm that I had seen a lockbox
on the door- after all it was late and dark when I had noticed the lockbox. As my dog and I walked toward the house, a
car drove onto the drive-way. I did not
hesitate to greet the man driving the car.
He greeted me as well. Thinking
that he was the owner, I asked him if his house was for sale. He replied that he was not the property
owner, but that he was the Realtor. He
informed me that he was on the property to place a FOR SALE sign. I asked if he would show me the house. He honored my request and showed me the
house. As soon as I stepped into the
house, I knew that the house would not be on the market very long. The house
was very nice. All I could thing about
was that it was the perfect house for my client. “I cannot believe that I found a
house on my block, it was large, it was beautiful, and it was affordable,” was
the only thing I could say. It felt like her prayer had been answered. I shared with the Realtor that I had a
potential qualified buyer for the house.
I told him that I would contact her to have her view the house the same
day. He gave me the opportunity to call
my client. He was kind enough not to place
the sign on the property and waited for Melissa to see the house.
I called my client
to tell her to drop what she was doing, drive north in order to see a house
that was going to expedite her road to retirement. She took my advice, drove to the Treasure
Coast area to see the house located on my block. By 4 p.m. she had signed a
contract. My client was on her way to
begin her new life!
She returned
to Miami to go to work the next day. Her next plan of action was to separate
from her employer. Because the sale on her property was around the corner, she
was on a time crunch, so she terminated her position immediately. She put her
plan into action, bought her new home, and is now mortgage free. For now, she
exerts her free time to her life passion . . . gardening. Through her gardening
passion, she creates and designs English style gardens resulting in colorful
plants and flowers that draw the attention of all her visitors and butterflies.
She refers to her garden as God’s Garden.
Her gardening is, in my opinion, her special way of showing others her
love for God’s natural gift to us.
In real
estate, I have “take-a-ways” away from my clients, take-a-ways that I can apply
to my own personal life. There are times
clients give me food for thought as we share conversations. Some clients help me appreciate things I take
for granted. There are clients that in some indescribable and mystical way
plant seeds in my soul. Melissa was the
client that planted seeds in my soul: It was the seeds of faith and prayer that
caused my doubt to manifest itself into belief. As realtor, I witness faith in action.
Today I do not limit prayer only to times when I need God to answer a prayer
because I have a desperate need. Because
of the seeds my client planted in me, I have incorporated prayer into my every
day business dealings. The results have
been divine!
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