Everywhere you turn, the news seems to be negative....talk of people losing their houses, their jobs, their retirement, and companies, including some of the largest banks, are going under.  In Atlanta, we are also experiencing a massive gas shortage that has people standing in lines for hours on end in the hopes to get their $80 tank of gas to last them for another few days.

Things look really bleak....

Things looked pretty bleak in 1934 in the middle of the Great Depression too...But, what I bet you didn't know is that more millionaires were made in the Great Depression than any other time in American History!!!

As a matter of fact in 1934, Bill Hewlett and David Packard started what is today the largest technology company in the world --- HP with a cash start up of only $538 U.S. dollars.

They weren't listening to the naysayers and the media...and neither should you!!!

My background is originally in marketing and media relations and that is the job of the media--to pull on the heart strings and emotions of people!!!

Now don't misunderstand me, I don't think we're anywhere near the situation that lead to the Great Depression. But there are plenty of lessons to learn from history. One of the biggest is that most all of the great economists of our time who have studied that period agree that the financial conditions WERE NOT bad enough to warrant what happened.
 
It was caused by FEAR (FALSE EVIDENCE APPEARING REAL)!!! That's why FDR uttered those now famous
words "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

There are tremendous buying opportunities for those who are looking for and expecting them and who know how to create maximum momentum.

I think the recent news will have many buyers paralyzed until "things turn around," but those still asking the right questions ARE going to get the right answers!!!

THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A BETTER TIME TO BUY. Sellers are motivated, interest rates are low, inventory is high and now other buyers have hibernated to "wait and see" mode.

I'm not just saying this because I'm in real estate, I practice what I preach. I have bought five homes over the last three months and just sold one yesterday that I intend to roll into another two. NO ONE IS GOING TO RING A BELL AT THE BOTTOM. And, by the time you decide to move after "things turn around," you will find yourself in massive competition with all the others who thought along the same lines. 


So......ENOUGH ALREADY WITH ALL THE NEGATIVE TALK!!! AMERICA IS NOT THAT BAD OFF

And, if you really want to capitalize on this unprecedented time the follow the following simple steps: 

1. GET A REALTOR WHO KNOWS HOW TO FIND GREAT ATLANTA HOME DEALS
2. GET QUALIFIED BY A REPUTABLE BANK (I only work with lenders and mortgage brokers who deliver), AND
3. GET OUT THERE AND SWING THE BAT!!!
   
   The rewards will come if you decide to find look for the good in the middle of the bad.
   
   Winter Baserva is a licensed realtor in the State of Georgia. She buys and sells real estate all over the Metro Atlanta area including Sandy Springs Homes, Dunwoody Homes, Roswell Homes, Buckhead Homes and Buckhead Condos, Marietta Homes, Atlanta Homes and outside the perimeter.
   
   For more information visit www.onewinter.biz or call her at 678-463-3173.