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What is so bad?
What' So Bad?
It was Thomas Paine who said "These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country." While we are not fighting for our individual liberty, we at Schuler Bauer are fighting hard. But over time, we forget all that is not important, or relevant, to the situation in which we find ourselves immersed. Just so is today's REAL ESTATE MARKET. Having the disadvantage of age, I remember too much, and too well, the bad old days of the past. Entering the real estate market place as a new licensee in 1980, I confronted a market where unemployment was historically high. Marble Hill had just shut down. What is Marble Hill you ask? It was a nuclear power plant project east of Charlestown that was stopped, throwing the local economy into a dither. Labor unrest at GE, and Ford, also had Louisville's metropolitan area employment confidence at a low spot. Couple all this with mortgage rates at 16%, due to out of control inflation, and you have a terrible market. As terrible as that market seemed, it was a great time to enter the ... more

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