Stick Season In Montpelier and Barre
I will admit, the phones aren't ringing as steadily, and I'm getting fewer email inquiries about our listings as I did throughout the spring, summer, and early fall...but it's not dead. Not by a long shot.
Two weeks ago I had three offers come in (2 are accepted, one is a short sale, so you never know when that'll land). Last week I added another offer and a new listing. Today I'm headed out to see about a listing, and then this morning I had an email inquiry wanting to know about selling her house.
I'm not going to count any chickens before they've hatched, but this is certainly a busier November than I thought I'd have. Back in January when I started (I can't believe this is my first year...I should've been doing this for a long time!), people assured me that it was the worst possible time to start a career selling real estate. My (perhaps naive) response then was that if I could make a go at it and stay in business when the market's down, when unemployment's up, and when people think it's a bad time to start a career selling real estate, then I'd have a grand old time when things turned around.
I think I was right. When I hear veteran agents talking about how this was the strangest, least profitable year in which they had to do more work to close fewer deals than in recent memory, I smile to myself. You mean it gets better than this?
Perhaps I better bookmark this posting, and read it again in January to cheer myself up. Then again, I spent all summer telling my wife that she'll get enough of having dinner with me come November. Well, here it is the week before Thanksgiving..
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