"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood... Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, and that made all the difference." (Robert Frost)
It's Sunday morning and as we start the day I often turn on the radio for background noise. Sundays I listen Glen Haege's, "America's Handy Man." I always enjoy his show, I grew up doing my own home maintenance, I understand and enjoy his ideas. Glen's instance access data base is something to envy, I wish I had my loan programs so accessible.
Then comes the weekly mortgage distortion show, it always makes me mad, I've been in lending and real estate all my adult life, I understand the problems and the distortions, presented.
There's nothing unique about knocking everyone else's business or claiming your's is the only right way, and even nonsensical advice is legal when presented as one man's opinion. If you truly have a better idea it will stand on it's own. At a time when the market is in turmoil self-serving distortions may be the road most traveled, but that doesn't make it right.
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose." (Dr. Seuss)
I think it's time for professionals, real estate and lending to take the higher less traveled road. We need to realize that shelter is second only to air and food in human needs. While breathing and after eating sex is universally practice, with it's predictable byproducts there will always be a need and a market for our products and services.
We have free will, we have a brain, we have two feet, it's time to take the path less traveled, stick to truth and facts, it makes all the difference.
Bill
William J Archambault Jr
The Real Estate Investment Institute
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