Is your market still stagnant? Or is it you who are the stagnant one? Real estate income is all about contracts. In good times and bad people will move.
What happens more often than not is that we fall prey to our own expectations. In our own neighborhoods, the very ones we are supposed to be the experts in, we are out of sorts. So perhaps the value that the Seller hoped to get is not as high as he thinks he is entitled to. This should not stop you from working.
The best example of this is the new agent who has just come into the market. If they are smart they will shut their ears to all of the stories and comments provided by the older agents around them. STOP DON'T LiSTEN ! It will only bring you down. For the rest of us, look at what these newbies are doing!
Yes they are making money. Why? Simple this is their market reality. They have not been in the crazy times like we have. This is their normal and their normal is the very thing that may be keeping you from making a living.
Maybe there just isn't a big enough market out there for all of us. Perhaps you should consider moving on? So get with it or get out of it!
what a great and valid point - It seems that a lot of the agents on this side of the mountain are laying in fetal postion doing the wow me the market sucks - all the while I am writing contracts