As Real Estate professionals we must never forget this. I know we all try to put a positive face on what’s been happening in our markets but there is real human suffering and personal devastation behind all these foreclosures statistics. But for the grace of GOD, go we.
I was talking with a title rep this morning about this subject and how we don’t hear very much in the press about the human trials all this economic and housing crisis has created. Talk about the “Inconvenient Truth”, that book title might have better been saved for the book to be written on this subject.
We talk these days about remaining positive and keeping our business on track but we also can’t escape to nightmare that is just below the surface of our marketing data. And yes, we try to stay focused on the job we have to do. And I am not suggesting otherwise. But we also can’t ignore this as just an enigma either.
And while I am on the subject we should also applaud the many thousands out in our communities across the country that are trying to help. The subject came up in our conversation about these wonderful volunteers helping with the many pets that have been abandoned when the cars are packed up and these devastated families feel the need to leave the littlest one to fend for themselves. I don't even want to go there in this post but for sure there has to be better ways of handling it.
I read an article somewhere about the services set up to help all the little ones ( the family pets) that are displaced and try to find them suitable homes. None the less as a pet lover, I can’t but think about the great tragedy of the events between being abandoned and then finally getting them new homes. And that got me thinking that as real estate professionals that if we might know of some of these situations coming up, we need to help this families by providing them the names of the all the vital services in the event we could fend off the secondary tragedy of abandoning these helpless little ones.
The exent of all this suffering needs to be in our consciousness to be sure that we don’t become complacent in the humanities of all this.
I hadn’t read much about all this in our real estate writings so I am speaking out about it. Yes, I know that we need to remain positive in our actions and conversations. There is no particular action I’m suggesting here, just a reminder that as we go about our daily business lives, not to forget about this personal part of it. It’s real suffering and we can best keep our hearts tuned, if we don’t fail to think about this aspect of the crisis that we are all scrambling to try and help remedy.
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Thanks for the reminder. When you said "little ones" I immediately thought about the children. Imagine being a small child and dealing with losing your family home and the stress that creates. Indeed the toll is high, and I think the much of the fallout is ahead of us. We all need to remember what is important in life.