This Sunday was the first day my eight-year-old son Coleston mowed that lawn.

I remember when I started mowing lawns. I always looked at it as an inconvenience that I had to do every week.

I never truly understood the life lessons my dad was teaching me at the time. He was setting a standard for me to follow.

That standard lead to me mowing more lawns to earn money, doing a paper route and shoveling snowy walks. 

Now as an adult I’ve run my own business for the last fourteen years.
I’ve found over time that how you start something is how you’ll end something.

Start off on the right foot and things tend to go really well. The same goes for when you start off the wrong way.

I see this all the time in real estate. It’s always my goal to sit down and lay out a path for my partners to follow. Nobody likes to be left in the dark.

But this can be a crazy business filled with the excitement of buying a home. When that happens it’s hard to stop the momentum.

It’s easy to forget about the process when you want something. Things that mattered before to you start going out the window. Especially in a seller‘s market.

I know, it’s happened several times with my partners before. 

Ya, that’s right. I don’t have a perfect system. Nobody does.

That’s why it’s always important to sit down before you ever go look for a home and set the tempo.

How you start something is how you end it. If you lay things out in the beginning then almost always things will go as you plan.

If you wait until the last minute and try to throw everything together all at once then you’re most likely going to have a lot of problems with your financing, structuring of the offer and much more.

Nobody likes doing boring stuff, including myself. But it’s those simple things that when done right lead to much bigger things themselves.

And that’s getting the home that you truly want, not one you settled for.

Have a great week.