What is it that people love about real estate? Aside from having the potential to turn a HUGE profit margin (and no, I'm not exaggerating here)? Real Estate also offers you the opportunity to work with some amazing people and to develop a career somewhere that doesn't involve cubicles or punching a clock to the tune of "9 to 5".
If you're particularly savvy at investing and you're getting started in real estate on your own, you may not need to work in an office at all. Grab the opportunity of establishing a workspace in your own home instead.
Working from home is a modern-day aspiration. It's quite an attractive proposition to be able to stay at home, not even get changed out of your pajamas if you don't want to, and still earn a wage. To take your work to the park on a wonderful summer's day. Or even to be able to still do business when you're on your travels.
Of course it is. But working out of an office isn't always as easy as it sounds. Here are some tips to help you figure out how to work out working from home.
1) Have a dedicated workspace. I strongly recommend setting yourself up an office if you're going to be working from home. Telephone calls and conferences and meetings can be constantly interrupted by screaming children, chiming doorbells and neighbors that just want to "stop by for a second". That's bad news if you're working out of the corner of your living room.
2) Buy a filing cabinet. Paperwork is still a necessary evil. Since there's no chance you're going to be dealing exclusively in digital files, make sure you have someplace to keep all of the documents you really don't want to lose. Because otherwise, they're going to be gone.
3) Keep to a regular work routine. While there are times you obviously won't be able to do this, it's a good idea to keep to routine hours of work. Why is this important? Because otherwise, a lot of your friends, family and neighbors are going to conveniently forget about the "work" part of "working from home", and just assume that as you're at home you're available for visits. During the hours you've set aside for work, don't answer the door or the telephone, unless an emergency crops up. That way, people will soon realize that you're at work.
4) Decorate your office to your own personal style. As your home office is going to be a place where you'll be spending lots of time (and where you may also want to meet clients), make sure it's decorated in a way that reflects your personal style, but which is also professional. Personally, I favor wood and warm colors in my home office, so it's nice and bright in the winter-time.
5) Run an Ethernet cable to your computer. You can and should work on a laptop when you're out and about, but the last thing you want to do is run into a battle for bandwidth when the kids come home. The next thing you know, you're halfway through the inquiry you were responding to and you have to start all over again.
6) Enjoy it! Working from home is a lot of fun, but not if you're sitting there worrying about all the other things you should be doing. So enjoy it! Put the dishes and the laundry on hold, kick back and enjoy the fact that your job rocks.
If you're particularly savvy at investing and you're getting started in real estate on your own, you may not need to work in an office at all. Grab the opportunity of establishing a workspace in your own home instead.
Working from home is a modern-day aspiration. It's quite an attractive proposition to be able to stay at home, not even get changed out of your pajamas if you don't want to, and still earn a wage. To take your work to the park on a wonderful summer's day. Or even to be able to still do business when you're on your travels.
Of course it is. But working out of an office isn't always as easy as it sounds. Here are some tips to help you figure out how to work out working from home.
1) Have a dedicated workspace. I strongly recommend setting yourself up an office if you're going to be working from home. Telephone calls and conferences and meetings can be constantly interrupted by screaming children, chiming doorbells and neighbors that just want to "stop by for a second". That's bad news if you're working out of the corner of your living room.
2) Buy a filing cabinet. Paperwork is still a necessary evil. Since there's no chance you're going to be dealing exclusively in digital files, make sure you have someplace to keep all of the documents you really don't want to lose. Because otherwise, they're going to be gone.
3) Keep to a regular work routine. While there are times you obviously won't be able to do this, it's a good idea to keep to routine hours of work. Why is this important? Because otherwise, a lot of your friends, family and neighbors are going to conveniently forget about the "work" part of "working from home", and just assume that as you're at home you're available for visits. During the hours you've set aside for work, don't answer the door or the telephone, unless an emergency crops up. That way, people will soon realize that you're at work.
4) Decorate your office to your own personal style. As your home office is going to be a place where you'll be spending lots of time (and where you may also want to meet clients), make sure it's decorated in a way that reflects your personal style, but which is also professional. Personally, I favor wood and warm colors in my home office, so it's nice and bright in the winter-time.
5) Run an Ethernet cable to your computer. You can and should work on a laptop when you're out and about, but the last thing you want to do is run into a battle for bandwidth when the kids come home. The next thing you know, you're halfway through the inquiry you were responding to and you have to start all over again.
6) Enjoy it! Working from home is a lot of fun, but not if you're sitting there worrying about all the other things you should be doing. So enjoy it! Put the dishes and the laundry on hold, kick back and enjoy the fact that your job rocks.
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