03/11/2024
BREAKING NEWS! The 2nd hire for Pete Ewing Realtor (we will come up with a better name) is none other than Molly Ewing! To say this is a dream come true for me is sizable understatement! We don’t know what all this will entail, and after she spends this much time with me for a whole week she may quit Friday, but I hope it’s the start of something that for her one day is BIG! It’s already ENORMOUS for me because we’ve spent all day together, she attended her first closing on day one, got to pull up her first yard sign, open her first Lock Box, walked her first new construction and met some fantastic people. The first person she met has been a wonderful friend of mine since she came to Buchanan when I was in the 3rd Grade, Collin Cash! I was so thankful that Collin gave me the opportunity to list her home and then to be Molly’s first closing on day one couldn’t have been better (more on that later). She got to meet Craig Burnsed, Karen Broome, Chelsea Lawrence, and some of the other gang at Talley Richardson and Cable! At lunch we bumped into Brian Maddox, then to wrap up her time in Dallas she got to me Danita and Sam Elrod! Everyone that met her was so gracious and excited and even had some very nice things to say about her ole Daddy!
All of her life when I would ride her around our property I’d clear off a new area and when she’d jump on the Gator with me I’d point it out and say “Molly Frances, this would be a great place for you a house one day”….her answer for the last 10 years has been and I quote “Dad I’m not coming back here”…..I’d find a prettier spot on the property and clear it off and work like a dog….I’d tell her to jump on the ATV with me….”Now Molly THIS would be a great spot to build a house one day…..Daddy I’m not coming back to Haralson County”….she’s been back here since August and I’ve been making “suggestions” for things for her to do here professionally…including help me (no chance)! If you have tried to buy a land tract recently and needed to have a “Perc Test” done you know it takes about 2 months to get someone on site. I’ve been thinking about things I’d do again if I were a young man and Soils Scientist is one of the things I would 100% look into doing! In the old days if you could operate some post hole diggers and had a couple of 5 gallon buckets you could get a perc test done tomorrow. Now it requires a bachelor’s degree in Ecology, Geology…. or one of several other ology majors, she graduated from Ga. College last August with a degree in Bi”ology! She could complete about 18 more Semester Hours and then work with a Soils Scientist for 4 years and then I could really put her to work! In the meantime I’m encouraging her to get a real estate license….just because! In the short term she’s going to look at taking the required Course online with UGA for the Soils Scientist idea, I’m going to teach her how to photograph real estate, use drones, handle our social media, organize my business and start doing clerical work for me and just hang out with Dad!
I’m under no delusions that “my plan” will work out, but it just might! I loved being a banker for a long time and it made me better at what I do now….but if I could have made the transition into real estate sales about 15 years I’d go back and do it in a minute! I’m excited about all of the possibilities, but at the very least I get to spend time with my adult daughter and that is another little MIRACLE that has happened to me, and I hope her too!
Let the fun begin 3-11-24
