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Never Try To Catch A Falling Piano!

Reblogger Charles Hendricks
Services for Real Estate Pros with The Gaines Group, PLC Architecture and Design

Indeed, lets all get back in the saddle and force things to get better. There is no way waiting is going to help and certainly the government is not going to help. It is up to each of us to make things better in our own communities!

Original content by Mike Cooper, Broker VA,WV 0225086119

When I was a pattern day-trader, I had a saying that is relevant to real estate as well.  I always said, "You never try to catch a falling piano."  Why?  I think it's obvious that your chances of survival are very low.  My wife has a baby grand piano sitting in our living room, and I can tell you from experience, it's really heavy. 

The same is true in real estate.  A lot of would-be buyers are sitting on the sidelines waiting for the bottom.  That's where my old piano saying came from.  So many traders were sitting around waiting for a stock that had taken a hit, for whatever reason, to hit bottom.  Normally, by the time it hit bottom it took a big bounce back up and they missed it.  I saw it over and over.

Housing prices are currently hovering around 2000 real estate prices.  Interest rates are also at a five decade low.  How much lower can these two go?  Not much.  I've seen real estate in my community drop 50% in some areas, and even further in others.   Most local areas have fallen 20-30%.  There is a good chance they are near, or at bottom. 

So, before a piano drops on you, get involved and buy that dream home that you've been driving past all year.  It may be at the bottom, or it might drop another .05%, but I can almost guarantee if you're watching it, so is someone else.

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Diane Grady
Endless Summer Realty - Saint Augustine, FL

Waht a great saying. I will have to borrow that one for my buyers that are on the fence. Great! Thank you for sharing that one! We do expect prices to fall again next year with the election, but this year with the low low interest rates and prices that are already low, if a buyer finds what they want, they should just jump in there. Who knows if what they want will be there when the prices drop again!

Aug 31, 2011 01:59 PM
Dan Edward Phillips
Dan Edward Phillips, Humboldt and Del Norte Counties, CA - Eureka, CA
Humboldt and Del Norte Counties, CA

Good Morning Charles, an excellent post to convey the status of the current market.  Thank you for putting it up again.

Aug 31, 2011 08:01 PM