A Day in the Life: Real Estate Agent

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Instructions

Read through a Day in the Life of your new job. Use the word bank to drag and drop the missing words into the correct spot to complete the worksheet.

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You arrive at your hottest 1. ______________________ , a suburban split-level house, at 9:30 am. You let yourself in, open the curtains, and check that the place is clean. The owners have followed your advice: repairs are made, the house is tidy, and the lawn is mowed. Some agents use air fresheners and other cosmetic effects to impress buyers, but that’s not your approach. You know that most buyers want facts and figures, so you have them all in your folder: the age of the furnace; repairs made since the house was built; locations of banks, schools, and grocery stores; property 2. ______________________ ; and more. You even know which flowers will bloom in the garden next spring. A car pulls in, so you turn down the ringer on your cell phone and greet the first set of prospective buyers. She’s a psychiatrist at the local hospital and he’s a computer software engineer who works at home. You take them through the house, pointing out its features, answering questions, and helping them visualize his office in the room overlooking the backyard. He loves gardens, so you also give them a full tour of the outside property. They inquire about the lowest price the sellers might accept. You know what it is, but don’t reveal it. Your 3. ______________________  is based on the final selling price, so, of course, you want it to be as high as possible. Instead, you tell them about offers that have been refused and what the appraiser’s 4. ______________________  of the value of the house is. You also mention you’ll be showing the house to three other couples this morning. After your last appointment, you go home for lunch. Then you tour a newly built 5. ______________________  with other real estate agents. The tour ends at an open house hosted by the 6. ______________________ . They hope you and the other agents will help them pre-sell the new houses. Afterwards, you drop in on a client with a historic house downtown. You’ve had it listed for a year, but there hasn’t been much interest. You encourage the owner to do more decorating and repair work—just enough so that prospective buyers can see the building’s charm. Then you head home and spend two hours answering phone messages and reviewing the city-wide listings on your computer to see what sold today. As a treat at the end of the day, you work on the plans for the most beautiful dream home of all—yours!