I'm Sam, and I love independent estate agents.
I love you because you give your heart and soul to what you do. You miss parties and nights out; you stand in the rain on a Saturday watching your kids run around a muddy field, then go straight to a viewing. Your alarm clock always goes off too early; you miss your favourite tv programmes because you just need to send that last email. You see a chink of blue sky and rush off to photograph the front of a house, or bring washing in when you’re on a viewing, because your vendor is at work.
You shoo cats, stroke dogs, smile at unruly kids, pat the hands of worried pensioners, you can reel off the numbers of the best window cleaner, conveyance...