Sandy's Blog

Walking on the beach in the winter at sunset.  Myrtle Beach winter is normally sweater weather not bulky coats, hats or gloves.

 The Grand Strand is sixty miles of coastal property that includes several island beach's in North Carolina and heads south to Georgetown, South Carolina.  The towns you see to the west of Myrtle Beach are also considered part of the Grand Strand.

     You're looking at a unbuildable

section of an island beach in North Carolina.  As you can see the shallow ocean water is blue-green.

  There are Fishing Piers throughout the Grand Strand.  

  Did the sunset look like this where you are this evening?

Many Realtors have faced the same daily feeling of "should I stay or should I go" during the past year.  You keep paying for your dues, license fees, required continuing education, advertising, insurance, supplies, and let's not forget, gas, while feeling like a hamster running in a wheel.  

I've been lucky enough to have a steady stream of contacts requesting information about buying property but, as I've written about before, many of them get scared when they hear a media report that basically says, "The sky is falling".  (Yes, things are bad now, but just take a minute to think of who really started the avalanche.)  Then I've had a more than normal group of potential buyers who contact me and several other real estate agents to look for the same type of property.  Those people don't know the hours I spend searching for properties and they probably wouldn't care if they did know.  The problem is, I care!

I became a Realtor because I wanted to remain my own boss and wanted to actually help people but because I work 24/7 there are fewer and fewer days when I feel any sense of accomplishment.  Why have I stayed when so many others have gone?  It's days like one last week when I found the perfect property at a great price for a young couple I had been working with for several years.  It seems like fate, that each time I am ready to go something happens and here I stay.