Last weekend Ed and I ran The Crim Festival of Races, a 10 mile race through the streets of Flint MI. It's a fun race but getting to the finish line requires training and commitment. This means running in the rain, getting up early when it's hot or if we you have early appointments and running when you really do not feel like it. Bottom-line it requires a commitment and a goal.
For Ed and I running started back in 2002 - our sons had all left for college and being empty nesters kinda made me feel well kinda empty. So, I decided to raise money for the Arthritis Foundation and run a full marathon. However, I was not a runner and a full marathon is 26.2 miles. Needless to say Ed was not feeling my excitement but he came around once he met the coach with Joints in Motion. We started our training in April of 2001 and completed the Walt Disney World Marathon in Florida January 2002. That meant running in the spring with rain, the heat of the summer, into the fall and more rain, then into the cold and snow of Michigan. Many times thinking I must be nuts but remembering the whole time that getting to the finish line requires training and commitment and we had a great goal.
Since, then we have run the Crim several times, I did the 60 mile Breast Cancer Walk and now we are training for the Brooksie Way, a 1/2 marathon in Rochester Hills. So you can say we know about commitment.
Now you might ask what does all this have to do with real estate? Well if you think about it everything in our life starts with a goal or finish line - even our birth. Then once we are born we are always setting mini goals - to walk, to talk to say our ABC's, to get through grade school, high school and on to college. Find a partner, get a job or start a business. Maybe it's not as clear as running a race but getting to any finish line requires training and commitment. Hang on I am almost there.
Today, Ed sold a home in Macomb Township to a young single mom and she is now one step closer to her goal of owning a home. But it wasn't easy getting to this point. She looked at tons of homes and actually wrote about 5 offers. She started off slow writing just below asking price but she lost out. She searched again this time writing $5,000 over asking but again she was beat out. She viewed homes in the pouring rain, she drove through tons of traffic and again found another home only this time she wrote $10,000 over asking. Darn she was beat out again but committed to her goal she pushed on leaving work early, getting in and out of the car in the summer heat and then finally she found another home, she offered $20,000 over asking price but was beat out again. Back to the goal or the finish line and finally all her training and commitment paid off.
Today she has a place she can soon call HOME - almost to the finish line. Are you setting goals, training and giving it your all? Are you committed?
