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I'm tired of negative real estate chatter

I can't tell you how tired I am of negative chatter about our industry. I won't even repeat it all here. Wake Up Real Estate Professionals

Purchasing a home, new or existing, is one of the most American and liberating things a family or couple or single person can ever do. Hands down it goes without debate that an "ownership' society is more free, safer, healthier, more financially viable, and innovative.

Some things we all know:

Home values have gone up for over 200 years. I understand the "correction" types are all excited about short sales and sticking it to the mortgage companies and banks. But let's be frank, real estate is not the stock exchange. Real people buying real homes will result in upward values.

Creative and Innovative mortgage finance is one of America's greatest contributions to society. Every other country wishes they had the flexibility and creativity and innovation that we have available to our home buyers. When I've travelled the world, i get asked "how does a normal working person even consider buying a home?" In most countries it's inconceivable.

Criminals are criminals. No matter the number of rules and regulations we write, they will find new ways to cheat the system. Buyer Beware was a good caveat, it is impossible for government or society to protect people if they aren't going to protect themselves. The solution is definitely not making is harder to buy a house, or increasing the amount of paperwork, or more rules. That will only reduce the opportunity for people to purchase homes.

I want to say it right here ... Stop the negative chatter ... A new day is dawning in real estate in the greatest country on the face of the planet. It's time for the real professionals to step up and provide some positive leadereship. It's time to buy, to sell, to fix, to flip, to build, to renew.

Posted by Steve Dalton - Northwest Indiana on 08/01/2007 10:09 AM

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17 Comments on I'm tired of negative real estate chatter

AUG

2007

I just don't get why people are so negative about their own business...

and then to spill over into peripheral industries?? come on!

the sky isn't falling

btw... nice country up there... my father in law owns in New Carlysle... 30 acres to play on!

Steve, some of us are in it for the long haul. we all need to keep a positive attitude.

P.S. it's 5 o clock somewhere...............

David, thanks for the reminder, indeed the sky is not falling. And New Carlysle is beautiful, a little slow paced, but a nice relaxing place to chillax.

Pete, the long haul professionals need to get more vocal. Seems the "short" sellers are talking a lot.

To quote and agent in my office "We are licensed to sell a piece of America" How great is that! Every place that I have worked in real easte and out has negative people. I am a great believer in karma so I don't worry about them. They will have to deal with what they have done one way or another. Keep yourself positive and surround yourself with like people. I have a great office full of positive people about life and real estate. Despite being a smaller office than most in our area we do more business. Our market is the same, we just have a better outlook(and marketing).

Positive thinking is difficult when you are surrounded by negative energy. So many in this field are trying to drag others down. You have to be upbeat. People are always going to buy and sell. We all have bad days, but the reality is you don't get anywhere unless you have a positive outlook. Make things happen everyday...take up Yoga if you have to!

Excellent post. The negativity is something we are all getting tired of. I do not read negative posts anymore. If I want negative I will just read the newspaper!

Hmmm? I liked this post, but disagreed with it. Does that make me negative? Or neutral?

I understand where you are coming from, but reality is reality. I just took a hit on a property that I "sold" last August (where the buyer couldn't close on the deal) for $18,000 more than I just closed on it for. No amount of positive thinking could have changed the fact that the market changed on me. I don't think that it's negative for me to postpone doing another flip for a while until the market stablizes.

If I were a builder, I don't think that I would be putting up spec houses.

I do however think that you are right. The market will come back, but in it's own time. Adjust the set of your sail for these market conditions and be on the look out for when things start to change.

The Chinese symbol for crises is the mixture of the symbol for danger and opportunity! Not a bad thing to keep in mind right now, huh?

Bob Mitchell

ValueList Real Estate Services, Inc.

Bob, I think it makes you realistic. I'm not clammoring for crazies here, but I just don't think it's so bad that every day should be consumed with talking about the negatives. Television is having a hey-day talking to real estate agents lamenting the market. We've turned into the newest Lindsey Lohan, someone's misery makes great TV.

Gary, I'm all done with newspapers too.

Bruce, I keep telling my sales staff. "People are still having children, people are still graduating and getting married, families are still divorcing ... we have a huge number of new households being formed every day ... they have to live somewhere."

Jean - I hope I can steal that great line!

Steve - AMEN!! I have a good website which produces good results for me. I am new (6 months) to the Indy market and closing three transactions a month. My stats tell me there were over 15,000 searches for my meager keywords (I don't spend enough on PPC)

Properly educated buyers are out there.

In the next few months I plan to close 5-8 a month.

Don't feed me negativity. I am realistic, and also, like you, know people will continue to buy homes. If sellers are priced too high they will find those which are not, but they will buy!

Thanks!!

hey it's going to be cold up there sooner than you think so come to southwest florida, we've got sandy beaches, fishing, golfing, boating, and more. it's a tropical paradise and right now we can offer you a home a agreat price with lots of choices and great interest rates.

i hope to see you all soon.

Steve,

It is easy to see from your relaxed AR photo that you know how to be fun and positive. The sky is indeed not falling and even if it was, standing in one place and pointing at it would do little good.

You are so right about criminals and crooks - no matter how many rules you make criminals will skirt them and break them anyway. I hope the bad apples don't saddle us with even more unneeded rules.

Great advise!! I guess it goes back to what my Mother use to tell me if you can't say someting nice don't say anything at all. That advise works in all walks of life!!

AUG

2007

thanks for the kick in the pants.... I needed it :o)

Steve I too am tired off all the negative chatter real estate or other. I don't do newspapers and I rarely watch the news (my husband puts it on). I stay out of the office for the same reason. A positive attitude will get us much farther than a negative one. Speaking of the positive thanks for the email today!

To all my GBLE friends, Paula, Rita, Ashley, Thesa, Marchel thanks for reading and commenting. I have missed the friendly banter. I am serious though, this negative talk is driving me crazy. I for one think right now could be the best time ever to BUY a home.

Irrational Depression has set in, and it's a buying opportunity.

AUG

2007

Great post Steve. I couldn't agree with you more! Well said and oh so true. I too am getting tired of hearing it. Do these folks not realize that they're actually creating a self-fulfilling prophecy by continuing to downtalk the home market? It's nuts!

AUG

2007

Ryan, sorry for the delay, was out of town a couple days in no-rain land.

Self fulfilling prophecy is one of my tenants to my salespeople. If you believe you will sell, you will sell ... on the other hand, if you buy into the "sky is falling" philosophy right now ... you will not sell.

The more we talk about the very few bad loans that were made, the more we make it sound like that's the entire market. Sure, there were some bad loans. Sure, there were some crooks out there in the mortgage business. But it was a small minority and in the meantime millions of families bought a home.

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