Hmm...interesting question and while I can't recall the last time it occurred, I have spent an entire day with clients showing property.   Usually there is some kind of break for sanity's sake.  Theirs and mine.   

What you just described is a regular thing for me with my relo buyers. I regularly have people fly in to San Diego for the day. My tour with them starts at 8:00 am at the airport and ends with me dropping them with me dropping them off around 5-6pm. But, I build in a lunch break into the tours, 30 minute gap between homes around Noon and often they buy me lunch, sometimes we go Dutch, the repeats I treat.

That's life in America's Finest City and I enjoy it. Typically they are $500K-$1.5M clients that do this.

I had a relocation buyer who was in town for a long weekend.  We viewed properties Friday, Saturday and Sunday all - day - long.  We viewed a total of 81 properties in that three-day period (with a couple of quick lunch stops)... I don't remember how many hours total, but I was thoroughly exhausted at the end of the tour (younger, too).

All weekend with out of town buyers until under contract & delivered back to airport

and when I hear those stories, I'm thankful we are listing agents....

Mine was 10am meeting time, done at 8pm.  Near the end their daughter had a melt down in my car and the Mom refused to get a hold of the tantrum.  So I invoked my own mother and told her if she kept it up I was going to take them straight home and not stop for dinner.  I had a migraine, was exhausted and realized that I didn't like Mrs. Buyer and her bossy attitude at all.  She and I parted ways two days later at my request.

Some of ours take weeks, big chunks of land.

Kathleen, I don't have anything close to that-maybe five or six hours max.

I did, however, have a no- nonsense investor who viewed twelve homes within two hours.  He was in the door and out within 5-7 minutes.  No wasted time.

I do remember driving eight hours straight with three different groups of kids in Drivers Education one summer, and that was pretty brutal!  I had one quick 5 minute restroom break between carloads.

Your buyers are so fortunate to have you, Kathleen!

When relocation buyers come in, that is tyical as they have 2 to 3 days to find a home period. For local buyers, i try to break it up to a morning, or an afternoon or an evening.

I've started at 9 or 10 in the morning, wrapping up, going to dinner at 7:00 PM with relocation buyers.  I will say that the time does fly and I love every minute of it but, when you get home from those long days, it's a race to midnight to catch up!  

I have never stayed with a buyer that long. 

It's exhausting isn't it? No one even figures out there is prep time & waiting for the appts to confirm that you can go.  I'd say you had a 12 hr day.

I think it was about 9 hours for someone who was transferring into the area.  I don't usually recommend that since they will usually start to confuse the homes.  Most of the time, I try to limit it to about 6 homes at the most.  2-4 hours time usually or less.

Kathleen Daniels I've spent many hours showing commercial properties. I hope you will get an offer written for your effort.

In the early days I pulled a similar tour of duty.

These days 4 hours at a time max.

3 hours longest for me

Out of town buyers and had to get lots in , was a 7 hour day with them but mission accomplish

Kathleen,

It can take a whole day including lunch.  A

I've had some 8/9 hour days with relocating clients on a short time frame.

You remain a leader in your field....

I have investors who fly in and it is unusally one to two days depending on how  many they buy.

The whole day, with many short stops to narrow the choices! They kept going in circles until I finally circled the wagons! Tough day for them to choose the first home well after dark!

The ones that take so much time usually sit on the fence till the home is gone and then want to start over.  I will just say too much time on some.

I always believed that working with buyers are harder and can be very time consuming, especially with first time buyers who have no idea what they want and where. 

Kathleen Daniels - I must say you are a super woman!

I used to do that - one relocation buyer took a whole day, including a lunch free from me for these buyers!(

I have experienced working non-stop with clients for 10 hour days. I try not to make it a habit because it can become overwhelming for the buyers and unproductive.

6 hours...out of state buyers

I have had clients from out of town that wanted to start at 9am and go to 6. We did take a lunch break but remember looking at 17 houses. I was pooped.

6 hours max has been the most I've spent with a buyer. 

Yikes - I try to limit my tours to 3-4 hours.  I think my longest ever was about as long as yours though - very tough!

Kathleen Daniels Once, I spent almost the entire day with a client.

A few full days with upwards of 16 homes seen on one day. They did buy!

When I did more relocation buyers your day would sound like a normal day. Over the years I made the decision to move from 75% buyers to 75% sellers. It works much better for me and my current lifestyle.

5-6 hours

     In your car?   Yikes!

Nothing nearly that long. Unless they were coming from out of state and needed a set period of time to look then I would consider an extended day such as you did

Probably 13 hours - 8am-9pm.  These days used to be frequent with relo buyers.  We did schedule breaks for drinks, bathroom, lunch & dinner.  We always re-group at lunch and talk about what we've seen so far and what is to come and do the same thing again at dinner. Often that is accompanied by another day or two just like it as the relo buyers are in town for 2-3 days specifically to house and area hunt.  -Kasey

No more than two hours.

Once we saw 15 homes in one day; were very focused even though several towns were involved and managed it in about 5-6 hours.