Tips For Setting Up A Home Office For Your Real Estate Business

A lot of people really love the real estate business

. Why? One reason is that by working in real estate you have the opportunity to generate a potentially enormous profit margin (with no exaggeration intended). You get to work with wonderful people. You can also establish a career that isn't based on clocking in to work humming "9 to 5" to yourself and sitting in an office cubicle all day.

If you're starting out in the real estate business on your own, and you're a shrewd investor, it's possible that you can avoid working in an office altogether. Instead, make the most of your home by setting up a workspace there.

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.

Although it's a great idea in principle, working from your home instead of an office isn't always easy. Here are some ideas for making working from home a lot more straightforward.

1) Dedicate an area in your home as your workspace. It's a very sensible idea to establish a home office space if you are going to work from your house. You really don't want your business calls, conferences and meetings to be continually interrupted by noisy kids and neighbors who have just dropped by to see you. So avoid working from a corner of your living room if you can.

2) Get yourself a filing cabinet for your paperwork. You're going to end up with paperwork to file, whether you like it or not. As you won't be dealing with just digital files anytime soon, make sure you've got somewhere to file the paperwork you can't afford to lose. It'll be gone if you don't.

3) Stick to regular work hours. Obviously there may be times this isn't possible, but for the most part, you should try to keep regular work hours. Why is this a good idea? All too often otherwise well-meaning family, friends and neighbors will not make the connection between "working from home" and the actual working part of that phrase. Instead, they'll assume that because you're at home, you're on your own free time and they can visit. During your regular work hours don't take phone calls or answer the door. People will eventually get the message.

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) Make sure you attach an Ethernet cable to your computer. When you're on the move, the best idea is to work on a laptop. When you've picked up the kids from school, however, you don't want to be competing for bandwidth. It's a frustrating experience to find you're halfway through responding to an inquiry, only to lose your information and have to start over.

6) Enjoy the experience! It can be a lot of fun working from home, but not if you're fretting about all the household chores that have to be done. Try to put the laundry and dishes aside for the time being and take comfort in the fact that you have a really great job.

by: Angie Tewis

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