So, I just got done with one of my hardest transactions in over a year...

So, I just got done with one of my hardest transactions in over a year... like, literally just now... where I wasn't sure if it was going to close or not until literally the last minute of the closing.

Literally.

My client wasn't present -- we were working back and forth with her remotely up until the very end. Then finally, a breakthrough: my client signed her docs, we were done, we were closed.

Just as soon as hands were shaken, necks were hugged, keys were exchanged and everyone started to head out, I asked the attorney if I could stay behind in the conference room for a couple minutes to communicate with my client to let her know she'd just officially sold her house. So I hung out and exchanged a few final texts with her for about five minutes, then I closed my computer, shut off my phone and packed up to go.

On my way out of the conference room, I noticed a nice plush couch in the lobby and I thought, let me just sit here for a minute and collect my thoughts, everyone else is gone and I'm here by myself so no one would mind if I just took a breather for a spell.

So I sat down.

I took my backpack off my shoulder.

I laid back and shut my eyes.

Then I just started laughing. Uncontrollably. And then I started crying. And then I started muttering profanities and thanksgiving all at the same time in the middle of all the laughing and the crying.

Out of the corner of my eye, a pair of double doors to what I thought was a supply closet started slowly opening and a pile of hair sitting on top of a pair of glasses and a face started peering out, kind of like when you accidentally open the newspaper to the middle of the Dilbert comic strip and there's Alice the receptionist staring at you sideways from the fold.

Anyway, this woman leaned back in an office chair through the doors and was like, "Hey, are you ok?" And I'm wiping my eyes and I'm like, "Yeah, I'm so sorry. I was just in a closing that had me running through a rabbit hole for the past three weeks. By the way, why are you hiding in a supply closet?"

Turns out they've run out of room on the 17th floor there and she was sitting in what was her temporary office, and she knew ALLLL about my closing. Someone else walks in and hears what we were taking about and was like "Yep, we know ALLLL about that one!" And then another person, and another, and soon half the firm was standing around my fainting couch telling me I wasn't crazy, I wasn't in a dream, they'd all been busting ass on this closing just as hard as I had been.

It HAD actually taken a small village to get this one wrapped up.

All I can say is, congrats to everyone, thank you to my team John Ryan Alexander and Ruth Beaulieu-Thomas who were amazingly helpful, and thank you ALL from the bottom of my heart to the good folks at Campbell & Brannon who helped steer this one to the table.

On to the next sale.