TRUST ~ I MUST!
Lasting relationships are built on trust.
Trust I Must!
I want lasting relation-ships in my life so...
Trust I Must!
There are different kinds of trust just as there are different kinds of relationships.
I trust my husband.
Trust, I must!
I trust that he has my best interest at heart, and he does, often over his own. In this case, trust is all wrapped up in loving someone. He trusts me in the same way.
It's often the little things that give people confidence that they can trust you in the big things and
Trust we must!
I like to believe that my clients trust me in various areas. I don't think I'm going to be their agent very long if they don't trust me and
I can guarantee you that they are not going to be my clients, if I can't trust them.. SO
Trust I must!
They trust me to get their home sold if they are a seller and to find them a home if they are a buyer.
They trust that I will keep confidential information exactly so.
Often though it is much more than that...as we interact with our clients, their personal lives are shared with us. We know that their mom is in bad health and they are worried about her. We know that they haven't talked to their 30 yr old son in three years.

We know... well, you know... what you know, that they've allowed you to see... and they've shared with you.
You're not telling anyone even though it's not part of the transaction.
They trust you.
They trust you beyond what's required for you to help them sell or buy a home.
At that point, they trust you to be their friend.. a true friend. They need that or it wouldn't happen.
Trust they must!
Trust.. it breaks my heart when for some reason, it seems that someone doesn't trust me.. Even That buyer that I sold a home to, but when they got ready to sell, they called someone else. Was it a trust issue? God, I hope not.
I trust my bank to take care of my money.. (Don't laugh at that one!).
What options do we have?
Trust I must!
Part of that trust is wrapped up in trusting our Federal Government and the FDIC.
(Did I hear an even bigger guffaw??)
I have to trust them.
That kind of trust is not very solid at times but
Trust I must.
I trust Active Rain to be here for a blogging platform and real estate community of professionals. For ME to blog..

As I've watched the changes over the past year or so, there were times that I wondered how the company structure was going to change.
- Was it going to change to the point that I would feel the need to leave?
- Watching the staff restructuring,
- the ownership changes,
- the sometimes seemingly drive to turn it into something UN-RAIN-like
- But Active Rain has come full circle for me. I believe it's going to be bigger and better than ever
- AND that the family-like atmosphere will remain..
- There's a lot of blogger nurturing, i.e. training and sharing happening here.. maybe more so than ever and
- I really don't want to take on the SEO etc to have a WP blog be my main blog.
Trust I must!
I trust my children and grandchildren to be what I've taught them and expect them to be. I know that it doesn't always turn out exactly so but I trust that in the end it will be.
Trust I must!
Trust? I've learned a new trust.. right here in The Rain. With new friends... real friends... comes trust. Trusting people to be your friend that you've NEVER met.. How can that happen? Hopefully who you are and who I am comes out in our blogs.. sometimes that leads to phone calls, texts, emails.. you begin to feel that you know them.. trust them.
Trust we must.
I trust my Lord to take care of me when I can't. I believe we are to do for ourselves but there are times in life that we do not have what it takes.
Sometimes we can't handle what comes our way and sometimes no one else can humanly help us.. it's then that I trust my heavenly Father to hold me in his hands and take care of me..
When I leave here someday and I will.. we all will... I've never known anyone who was able to stay here forever.. I trust that He will be there and it will all be alright.
Trust I must!

We even see trust in our animals. My puppies trust that there is going to be food in their bowl tomorrow and they are going to receive kindness from me. I trust them.. They are BIG puppies, weighing close to 70 lbs now, I know they are NOT going to attack me, bite me, etc..
Trust I Must!
We are continually revealing to the world whether they can trust us. Call it vibes, ESP, intuition or whatever.. people often get a feeling about whether they can trust someone, even when they meet them for the first time.
It is important to come across as someone that can be trusted and then it's important to live your life in a way that backs up what you're putting out.
So should you wear a T-Shirt that says in big letters
"TRUST ME...I'M A REAL ESTATE AGENT"?
Not quite... that would probably have the opposite effect. Trying too hard to convince someone that you are trustworthy usually has the opposite effect, or at least it affects me that way when I encounter someone trying too hard.
Trust ~ Confidence that someone will do the right thing. Faith in someone's or something's integrity, strength, and ability to do so. You can't invent it on the spot.
People that others place their trust in, have reason to do so, whether it's that intuition, observance, recommendation, or a long standing friendship. It is perhaps the most important word that others can use to describe us.
Trustworthy.. Without trust in our lives, both giving and receiving, life would lose it's joy and peace...
Trust I Must!
Photo Credits: The Dr. Seuss photo is courtesy of What What it was available on Flickr under the Creative Commons Licensed Content for adaptation, modification, and building upon.. I modified and built upon it. Thank you What What for making it available. Some of the other photos are from Morguefile and some are mine. This post is a submission to the ActiveRain / Adobe EchoSign Trust Contest. I could possibly win a prize. Want to know about the contest? It's going on right now.