Yesterday, I fulfilled a promise to a client and his family. I helped them pack a U-Haul to move to their new home. I really didn't have the time. Honest I didn't!
My To Do list for Tuesday looked like this:
5 a.m. Drop Darlin' at airport to see family
(I'll join her for a vacation next week)
7 a.m. BNI Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Office. Docs to Title? (Offshore closing, foreign national)
8:45 a.m. Check w/Title. Docs received by email. Check!
Call, reassure REALTOR
FUP Title. Make sure docs emailed to Venezuela.
FUP REALTOR
10:00 a.m. Help Dale & Melissa pack the truck
Take clean set of clothes. Shower & get back to office by 2:30 p.m.
Afternoon To Do:
FUP Appraiser
Meet w/Controller re P&L
Finish HONESTY blog for Active Rain contest.
PCLA (Previous Client Loan Application)
We expected (Dale and I) that about 5 or 6 strong men would show up, and that we would be done by mid-afternoon.
We had three men. One had to leave at lunchtime. 
The boxes were packed in the U-Haul by then.
My planned day was unraveling. I've only done one loan outside the US in the past four years. That was for a soldier in Afghanistan. We emailed the docs to the US Embassy in Kabul. The borrower signed in front of a notary, and FedEx got them back to Title in a day and a half. I was confident that this loan--a purchase for a couple in Venezuela--would work just as well.
Between lifting and packing (I used to do this for a living, but that was three decades ago) I called Title. Docs not out yet; please call back...
I called the PC (previous client) and asked to reschedule her loan application. I had never done that before, so I wondered how this would come across. She was gracious, and we rescheduled.
Beds. Dining room furniture. Dishes. Lamps. Violins? Three violins? No, two violas and one violin.
Did I mention we had a little helper? This young lady was moving to her new home! "Good bye, bed! See you at the next house!" Her mood was infectious, and her running commentary on our performance had us in stitches. Pretty soon I was talking to furniture too.
Somewhere between lunchtime and 2:30 I decided that the rest of my day was going to have to take care of itself, because honestly, this is where I needed to be today.
My friend and client Dale wasn't going to get it all done if I left when I'd planned to leave. So I made some phone calls, changed some things around, and explained that I was helping a client move, and things were taking a little longer than we had planned. I bagged the blog contest.
No one had a problem. Everyone was gracious. The docs went out mid-afternoon. Two more men showed up around 5:00 to help.
We got 'er done, as we say down south.
Honesty is doing what you say you're going to do, when you say you're going to do it. It's meaning what you say.
Honesty is sticking with it until the job is done. What I didn't tell you is that I didn't have anything to do with the loan for this house. I was not involved in the real estate transaction in any way.
Dale and his family were Previous Clients. And I told him more than a year ago that if he ever needed help, I would show up. He could count on me. When I said it, I honestly meant it!
On the way home, our Creator treated me to one of the most beautiful sunsets I've seen since I moved to Tucson in 1998.
Tell me if you see something like this from your Albertson's parking lot!
Mike in Tucson,
Your preferred Tucson, AZ mortgage lender
