Dear Fence Riders (You Know Who You Are!):

To Those That Are Capable of Buying A Home But Choose Not To:

There are plenty of good reason to be buying a home right now: Up to $8000 in FREE money, interest rates at an all time low, and home values at an unprecedented low. Yet there are a significant amount of people "riding the fence" between homeownership and well.....no homeownership. I am hoping to get the answer once in for all from you.

On behalf of (literally) hundreds of sellers in Shiawassee County: Why are you choosing not to buy a home right now?

Don't get me wrong. There are quite a few active buyers in Shiawassee County looking at homes in the frigid cold Michigan winter. I have good reason to believe that with all the incentives and current buying conditions that there are more people out there that could (and should) be buying their next home right now- they are just choosing not to.

So I present you with a challenge that, if accepted, will reveal the answers to questions that sellers, other buyers, and people in the real estate profession would like to know: Tell us all what your reasons are for not choosing to take advantage of all the perks of buying a home right now versus waiting until conditions become less favorable.

Share with us what it would take for you to buy a home right now. Are there more incentives you need from the government, is THE perfect home for you just not there? Please SHARE with us so that we might LEARN the reason this market has not improved as many of us have hoped it will.

If enough of you choose to ENGAGE in this discussion we might be able to decipher the mystery. We may finally know the real reason that the Average Days On Market for a home in Shiawassee County in 2009 was 150 days and why the average sales price in Shiawassee County in 2009 was only $75,000. By the way, that is out of only 463 single family residential homes.

So please respond to my challenge. Enlighten us all. So that we can do our part to make conditions better, or understand why you are not willing to come down off of that fence and own your own piece of Shiawassee County (yet).

We will be waiting for your input....patiently....done yet?.......ok......how about now?