Have you ever heard the saying "the universe is conspiring against me"?
Well, don't believe it. The universe is conspiring in your favour, if you can recognize it. This has generally been my experience.
I suppose sometimes things may seem on the surface to be unfavorable, however, even the seemingly bad events many times probably occur for ones benefit (there are exceptions, as with any other general statement).
The story I will give as an example here is not one of those "bad" experiences but rather a good one.
About a month ago, I started working with a new client, James. Now James has a special situation that is paramount: members of his family have particularly extreme mold sensitivities and chemical sensitivities to boot.
Luckily for James and his family, Asheville is a pretty "hip" place in regard to progressive thinking and practice. This seems especially true when it comes to the use of non-toxic building materials and high performance engineering in residential construction(WNC Healthy-Built, LEED, "green-building", etc.), to create an environment conducive to normal living for those with these types of pollution intolerance.
Well, we toured every one of the suitable candidates, thoroughly inspecting each for the presence of strong smells, particle board, and any signs of condensation being present where it could be observed.
We especially scrutinized crawlspaces and basements.
On the final day, before he had to go back from whence he came, James decided he would like us to visit a builders spec home, a FSBO, which I had discovered during my usual scrounging in the local papers.
I'm the scrounging type, ever looking for the chance circumstance, the perfect place, which on the MLS, there be not a trace (or even on the FSBO sites in this case).
So we went.
We were very impressed with the builders work and especially the clean minimalist contemporary design employed by the architect (the builder is his son).
I was excited to know of something interesting, aesthetically (for me anyway), utilizing green features (especially for James: no VOC coatings and like building materials).
Unfortunately for James, this very neat place with a bit over an acre of lovely south facing land, with nice views, was just too small for his needs and he settled upon another, a WNC Healthy-Built (for more info on WNCHB, please see: wncgbc.org ), in town.
To make this already long story short, the especially fortuitous 
part for me was feeling so grateful to have made a possibly lifelong connection with such cool, interesting people, James included (this for me goes beyond the promise of monetary gain). After some time, my new friends shared with me news of their neighbor, who was seeking the right person to purchase his beautiful land (25 acres, also a FSBO).
With the universe conspiring in my favour, soon I may have 3 new listings.
There is more than that to this story, however, you get the gist of it.
The land pictured here is the neighbor's property. The home is the spec home. With me being a photographer, of course, I photographed both extensively.
Just one of many sunsets, in which we will all partake.
Stay tuned for part two coming soon-ish..
The Universe is Conspiring in Your Favour. Copyright, 2008, J.T. Narrin Photography, REALTOR
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