Some like it hot.

But not Texas hot, is what I would add. This week one of my tasks is to pump up an Open House I have scheduled for this weekend. I have my websites all set with the information. I have postcards made and two thirds of them are already handed out. Yes, you heard me correctly. I walked the farm neighborhood for the home I have for sale in hopes of finding that one family that is ready to move up to the nicer house. I am looking for the family that is doing well in this economy and feeling good about their prospects enough to move from a smaller house to a larger one. I am looking for the person who is ready for the nicest house of the block. My belief from much of what I have read about real estate is that that person lives in a house that is twenty to thirty percent smaller, and less expensive than the one I have for sale. These people, according to NAR stats, will move within a five mile radius of where they live now because they have chosen the community, the just want to upgrade the house.

Tagging one hundred houses a day for four days in 105 degree heat is a chore. As I have been walking the neighborhoods new to me I am not thinking of the heat for the most part. I am observing the lawns, the artifacts of children in the home—like bikes in the yard and baseball gloves, I am looking at the roof and the front door that this family is so familiar with and wondering if they would like to walk through the door of the home I am hired to sell in the market. As I wipe the sweat and push off to the next front door and the next I am imagining all the families I am touching and what that message I am sharing with them is. Our desire to move forward in life is always about the attitude in which we approach each and every task. Would I prefer not to have to walk around in this heat, yes! Would I trade it for something else, yes, if I could be assured my message is conveyed. But here is the thing, I can’t be sure my message is being delivered unless I deliver it. Sure I could hire someone to do my work, but then I am not in the neighborhood understanding it from their perspective. So today the last batch will be delivered and on Sunday night I will know if it worked or not. I am anticipating success for this underpriced and wonderful home.