Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so the saying goes.

Recently, while holding an open house, I saw this saying played out for me beautifully. A gentleman entered the home that I was showing, and began to offer some "constructive" criticism about the design, décor and price. He didn't like anything about the home.

In every room there was something wrong. We had a good conversation about what the felt the house should be priced at. I valued his opinion enormously, and even asked him questions about what he thought would help the house sell. He was a delightful man with very good ideas; bottom line--he just didn't like the house and wasn't afraid to share his opinion.

After he left, I began to look around the home to see what could be done to make some of the improvements he recommended. But before I got too far in the "brain-storming" process, a small group of ladies entered the home, and as they toured the house and made comments, I realized that beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder. One of the women loved the house.

She walked around pointing out the things she liked. The man hated the back yard and the way the sliding glass door opened up to it. She loved the lay-out. I could go on, but you get the point....

I could only inwardly giggle because you just never know what people will say and how they will react to the same set of circumstances-in this case, a home for sale. I giggled at myself, too, because I got caught up in one person's opinion, I had briefly forgotten another old saying, "One man's garbage is another man's gold." I learned a good lesson that day.