Crikey! You miss a call or two, people forget about the joy of emailing instead of calling and all of a sudden folks are wondering if we are still in business!
We are alive and kicking and very, very busy. You may have seen that our listings on rightmove and bluedoorlettings.com are numerous and splendiferous at the moment and this has led to lots and lots of viewings on lots of lovely properties. When I have been on the phone I've had a few tricky conversations with landlords this week about hitting the 'sweet spot' regarding rents. Thankfully (for them) those landlords seem to have come round to my way of thinking.
Humourous advert + ouchy rent = a good laugh but no interest.
Humorous advert + sweet rent = instant response from interested parties, very often within hours.
Would you believe that we had 61,715 summary views on rightmove in the last 28 days? The blog data is very much smaller and I am so ashamed that I am not going to post how may (few) hits we've had this month at all.
We have also been struggling with taking Bluedoor's back office into the world of terminal servers and remote desktops necessitating new printers and some rethinking. This is mainly all good but as a result of all this hocus pocus our statements will be printed in black and white from here on in which is a bit of a sad moment for us as blue is our thing. Perhaps blue paper is the way forward?
There aren't enough hours in the day to run the business and think about paper colour....