cancel purchase contractIf you miss a cactus flower bloom on the day it bursts into splendor, you have missed it forever. There is no turning back the clock. You've got to catch the moment when it arrives or it's gone.

It's very similar to a new listing that pops on the market. The minute a home that fits your parameters appears, you should take action. If you want to sleep on it, call Tom, Dick and Harry to discuss it, it's likely to be gone by tomorrow.

Homes are unique. No two are exactly the same, even if you are looking in a cookie-cutter subdivision.

Fortunately, California buyers have a way to cancel a contract if further inspections don't meet the buyers' standards. It's called contract contingencies. There is no excuse not to write an offer when you find the perfect house. Unless, of course, you are waiting for the next cactus flower to bloom. But that, too, blooms for only for one day.

You can see in the photo to the left that I have a first-bloom flower on my cactus. But this is an old cactus, and it has many more buds just waiting to flower. They're itching to produce the next breathtakingly beautiful artwork. Will the next flower be as pretty as the first? Hard to say.

When it blooms, I'll post another photo, and you can tell me. :)

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7 Comments on A Cactus Flower Blooms for Only One Day

JUL
19
2008

Reminds me of the Dennis the Menace Movie

9:03pm • #1
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What's that supposed to mean, Chris? I have never watched a Dennis the Menace movie -- but then I don't much like the cartoon character, either. So, I don't get your reference. I prefer Bart Simpson.

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JUL
20
2008
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Elizabeth, your cactus flower story reminded me of two things in addition to your analogy with the perfect listing popping up and going away if you didn't get an offer on it. Have you ever worked with African violets? Those plants are so stubborn about when they want to bloom with their flowers. Most of the time they are just the leaves. But then one day, BOOM, there's the flowers. The other thought on your cactus is the "moments" in life that you have to recognize they are there. Like a little one coming up and hugging you out of the blue. You know, all those wonderful little snapshots in your heart. I'm glad you know about these things because I can tell you found a "moment" with this cactus!

10:19am • #3

Love your analogy! It's so true that timing is everything. I'm learning that right now with my activities in real estate. Of course this carries to life in general. Sometimes, you gotta just go for it!! :)

11:57am • #4
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Hi Gary and Deborah: I have never tried to grow African violets. I hear they are finicky. Of course, that hasn't stopped me from attempting other projects.

Well, no cactus blooms today, and the flower has wilted. I'm glad I stopped to take a photograph of it. I have a large 15 x 15 space in my yard that is devoted to growing cactus and succulents. Conserves water, too, because I don't have a sprinkler head installed in that location and hand water it once a week.

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12:12pm • #5
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I didn't know that about a cactus flower.  That's a good analogy, though.  Timing is everything!  :)

1:16pm • #6
AUG
19
2008
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Ah, but Elizabeth, as you get to know more and more about our cactus friends, you can find many species where the same flower blooms for several days in a row, opening up with the dawn and settling down to sleep with the dusk. I'm sure someone like you could find a good real estate analogy there, too, so I'll leave that one up to you.

My avocation, and sometimes part-time vocation, is low water-use landscaping, usually using cactus and succulents, but sometimes native plants or others.

Here's a blog entry of mine that you might enjoy: Orchids or Roses? How about cactus and succulents?

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