I love real state even when the market is not busy I still love it!  I love marketing homes of all kinds.  I love the previews broker caravan day.  I enjoy the people who are attracted to this profession.  I believe we are the glue to holding the economy together and we need more glue right now.  The economy will recover and our industry will be the catalyst.

i got my real estate broker's license in the summr of 1979 and worked hard for 3 years then I had a long sabatical.  I left when interest rates were 18.5% and it was super hard to get a mortgage.  Money was tight then.  We were  no computers, no internet, no cellphones, no pagers, no VCR's, no fax, no GPS, no DVD's, no Iphone, no ipod, and no lock box key.  I typed or wrote by hand a listing and kept in a 3 ring notebook.  I sold lots of houses and then the interest rate when so high and my sales got reduced.  It is hard believe that none of those things were around and yet we all lived pretty nicely.  I love those technologies and I am always looking for the latest new techology.  The world of technology facinates me.

I was really young then and by the way i am biologically still YOUNG.  Some days I feel younger than I did then.  I remember being tired back then.  Then someone introduced me to some unbelievable stuff and I was like a whirlwin and no it was not drugs.

Aside from all that I hear one day we have bottomed out, then I hear we have not reached bottom then I hear from Warren Buffet that there is no sign of recovery.  For one thing, I hope he is really wrong.   I believe that our real estate industry will help bolster up our economy if only they would do a few things for everyone, like give all home buyers a tax credit of $15,000  whether they are first time buyers or not.  Afterall we are the ones that are taking the hit for all these bailouts. That would stimulate the economy so much in so many sectors. 

I just feel like the real estate industry is key to our recovery and the sooner we fix the housing industry the better.  Our first priority is to fix our economy and everything else will be taken care of.

Pat Baker, Realtor, Green, ABR - Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, Needham, MA 617-435-3471 www.patannbaker.com