在巴塞罗那的盒子外面思考
It’s amazing to think that I am now one month into my internship here at Casamona International SL. On my first day, everything seemed knew to me – the country, the streets, the languages…everything. At first it took me a little while to start responding in Spanish automatically and I would even get nervous speaking to clients on the phone in Spanish. In my first 2 weeks, I only found 4 properties and had a 12% success rate in contacting owners, but with good organization skills and use of all resources I quickly improved. After one month I feel very adjusted to the changes. Since I have to speak Spanish everyday while I am working I am definitely more comfortable speaking the language at any time. My office is very international, and here there are many people that speak other languages, like Catalan and French. I have the opportunity to improve in those languages as well, although the most common languages spoken in the office are English and Spanish.
A typically work day for me starts at 10:00 and ends at 18:00. Usually I am in the office much later, because it is very important to me that I am keeping up with the daily goals that I create for myself. My main task in Casamona is to find new properties in Barcelona for rent and for sale. It may sound simple, but there is a whole chain of activities that occur just to acquire a property. Allow me to explain: once I know what I am looking for (for example, a studio apartment located in the trendy neighborhood of El Born selling for less than 350.000,00 eur or renting for less than 1.000,00 eur per month) I begin to search through various portals, newspapers, and forums to sort out properties that meet this criteria. An example of something I will find would look like this:
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然后，我通过打电话询问更多有关其财产的信息直接与所有者（称为特定）联系。然后，我安排了与他们的会议，以查看该物业，采用专业的Foto，并填写有关其财产的合同和基本信息。通常，我在巴塞罗那旅行，这非常令人兴奋，但是很容易从城市的一端到另一端。这是当它有井井有条的时候。
最后，一旦访问完成并签订了合同，我将回到办公室将其进入房地产数据库Dezrez，并在公司网站上发布信息。接下来，我必须在房地产门户网站上销售该物业，并将我的同事通知我的新物业。
As of two days ago, I have been paired with a specific sales agent to find properties for her specific clients. Prior to that, I would accept specific “flat finding challenges” sent out by all the sales and rentals agents. This definitely helps me to stay focused when I am filtering through a continuous list of possibilities in Barcelona. On a normal day I will usually have about 2-3 or more visits with property owners. To stay organized, I pretty much turn every surface into a whiteboard…which works since I am a very visual person.
