I should have gone to church today, but Terri and I are trying go get ready to leave town for Keller Williams® Agent Mastermind Training down in Austin, Texas beginning tomorrow through Tuesday.  She has to make some changes to a purchase contract and submit an offer on a house before we leave on our journey.  So here I sit for the moment writing to you folks until she is through (I'm starting to like this blog thing).  One of the great things that Keller Williams® does well (and probably better than any other real estate company out there) is train its agents.  We had our licenses under a broker associated with another nationally recognized company a few years ago and believe me, the training was almost non existent there.  In general, real estate agents and educational requirements have changed tremendously over the years also.  Todays agent is required to have so much training every year to meet licensing requirements.  Keller Williams® encourages its agents to go beyond those requirements and helps them (us) actually be better at selling, customer service, listing, buyer assistance etc.  Agents go beyond merely selling real estate, they have become truly more and more professional due to the sophistication of buyers and sellers in today's market and due to the fact that standards and practices are so much more rigorous.  Now, our team closed over 150 transactions last year and we get lots of practice to add to our experience but Internet marketing and the expectations of buyers and sellers are changing all the time.  In real estate sales, its not too different from so many other things that people do...you never know it all and you're always learning something new.  I have a passion for this business since I want to do it so much better than my competition.  Also, The Christian Group was the top sales group in Keller Williams®, Fort Worth in 2005 and 2006 and I don't want us to loose our edge.  So, I believe in training, training and more training.  I'm looking forward to our visit in Austin this week and hope that Terri and I can come back and treat our customers and clients with an even higher level of service.  The reward of all this effort is receiving your business but it is our repeat customers that tell us we've done something right.  So I leave you with this quote (I just love it) by probably someone famous, "In the land of the blind..the man with one eye is king".

Would love to hear from you!  Hope you're having a great weekend!

Bernie