Love Real Estate----and why I love real estate!

There are so many reasons to love real estate---as an agent. As a buyer. As a seller. Yes, I know there are many frustrating moments as well, but there are milestones! Huge milestones!

I have a handicap son--and one of the big reasons I love real estate is that I can wrap my time around his needs! A very good thing, very good!

I also have a large need to help people find happiness and meet their needs (not in a creepy kind of way)--and what better way to do this than the most important purchase?

Then, in these hard economic times---well, I am a solution person. I want to find a solution for all ---even if it means that there is not a solution for today. So, I even enjoy the 'using the brain-noodling-through' any options possible. Good stuff even if it is not good times.

My kids--and there are four of them--yes four! The two littlest like to show homes with me and 'play' Realtor. Specifically my 10 year old daughter is talking about following in my footsteps! Good things. But they see the hard work, the checks, meet the people. So, when one of my customers told me he has Hodgkins lymphoma and later we were saying our dinner prayers (he was included in the prayer)--they know who he is. They know his face. They care.

And at the end of the day real estate pulls us out of ourselves and broadens our horizons! If we were comfortable just being day in and day out people who would have other careers. We would do something that is the same all the time.

So, as we start to make our 2010 goals---and focus on the upcoming New Year---I hope we all can create our own list of why we love real estate. And if you are a buyer, or seller, I hope you have a list of why your experience has been good. And if it has not been------then change it.

(this blog is not intended in any way to solicit business from another)