Good Help is Hard to Find

Posted by admin on Feb 21, 2014 in YouBuyHouses Blog | 0 comments

I consider myself a pretty good boss. We run a relaxed office where dogs and guns are always welcome. We provide free soda and real estate advice to our employees. So why is it so damn hard to find people who will actually give full effort during the hours that I’m paying them to work?

Here is my latest situation: We are buying a small package in Dayton on Monday. We just found a buyer for one of them. We won two auctions last night and those properties are unsecured at the moment. We have two more bids that have to go in today. There is a lot to do: Contracts to get, closings to schedule, HUDs to review, locks to change, the list goes on and on.

And where in all this is my well compensated and supposedly hyper-attentive Acquisitions Coordinator -Aaron? Out of the office with almost no warning attending to some kind of personal crap that should have been taken care of during non-work hours.

When I get to the office at the crack of 10:00 each day I expect to find my desk clean, my dog watered and walked and brushed, caffeine at the ready and things getting done. Instead I find Aaron has already skated out and instead of responding to my series of blistering texts with any maturity or sense of responsibility, all I get is a bunch of whining and excuses.

“My wife’s water just broke!”

“She’s going into labor!”

Hey Aaron, do I burden you will all the petty details of my life? As far as I know Friday is still a work day, slacker. Go make me some money.

-Drew