Sandy's Blog

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.