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A Cactus Flower Blooms for Only One Day

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Real Estate Agent with Elizabeth Anne Weintraub, Broker DRE #00697006

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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Elizabeth Weintraub is co-partner of Weintraub & Wallace Team of Top Producing Realtors, an author, home buying expert at The Balance, a Land Park resident, and a veteran real estate agent who specializes in older, classic homes in Land Park, Curtis Park, Midtown, Carmichael and East Sacramento, as well as tract homes in Elk Grove, Natomas, Roseville and Lincoln. Call Elizabeth Weintraub at 916.233.6759. Put our combined 80 years of real estate experience to work for you. Broker-Associate at RE/MAX Gold. DRE License # 00697006.

Photo: Unless otherwise noted in this blog, the photo is copyrighted by Big Stock Photo and used with permission.The views expressed herein are Weintraub's personal views and do not reflect the views of RE/MAX Gold. Disclaimer: If this post contains a listing, information is deemed reliable as of the date it was written. After that date, the listing may be sold, listed by another brokerage, canceled, pending or taken temporarily off the market, and the price could change without notice; it could blow up, explode or vanish. To find out the present status of any listing, please go to elizabethweintraub.com.

Comments (7)

Chris Miller Nevada Land with Water Rights
Vegas Grand Realty and Property Management - Mesquite, NV
Land with Water Rights For Sale

Reminds me of the Dennis the Menace Movie

Jul 19, 2008 02:03 PM
Elizabeth Weintraub Sacramento Broker
Elizabeth Anne Weintraub, Broker - Sacramento, CA
Put 40 years of experience to work for you

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 19, 2008 02:06 PM
Gary Woltal
Keller Williams Realty - Flower Mound, TX
Assoc. Broker Realtor SFR Dallas Ft. Worth

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!

Jul 20, 2008 03:19 AM
Deborah Burroughs
San Diego, CA

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!! :)

Jul 20, 2008 04:57 AM
Elizabeth Weintraub Sacramento Broker
Elizabeth Anne Weintraub, Broker - Sacramento, CA
Put 40 years of experience to work for you

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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Jul 20, 2008 05:12 AM
Debi Ernst
St. Charles County, Missouri - Prudential Alliance Realtors - O'Fallon, MO
GRI, e-PRO, Broker/Sales Associate

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

Jul 20, 2008 06:16 AM
Not a real person
San Diego, CA

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?

Aug 18, 2008 08:11 PM