TO BUYERS WHO ARE STILL WAITING...

Found this email today sent by Merv Burgard on RealTalk email awhile back.  It may help some Buyers who are missing great investments get off the fence.

ARE YOU STILL WAITING?

    I hesitate to make a list
    Of all the countless deals I've missed.
    Bonanzas that were in my grip -
    I watched through my fingers slip:
    The windfalls which I should have bought
    Were lost because I over thought:
    I thought of this, I thought of that,
    I could have sworn I smelled a rat.
    And while I thought things over twice
    Another grabbed them at the price.
    It seems I always hesitate,
    Then make up my mind much too late.
    A very cautious man am I
    And that is why I never buy.

    How Nassau and how Suffolk grew!
    North Jersey! Staten Island too!
    When others culled those sprawling farms
    and welcomed deals with open arms -

    A corner here, ten acres there,
    Compounding values year by year,
    I chose to think and as I thought,
    They bought the deals I should have bought.

    The golden chances I had then
    Are lost and will not come again.
    Today I cannot be enticed
    For everything's so overpriced.
    The deals of yesteryear are dead:
    The market's soft-and so's my head.

    Last night I had a fearful dream
    I know I wakened with a scream:
    Some men approached my bed -
    For trinkets on the barrelhead
    (In dollar bills worth twenty-four
    And nothing less and nothing more)
    They'd sell Manhattan Isle to me,
    The most I'd go was twenty-three
    Those men scowled: "Not on a bet!"
    And sold to Peter Minuit.

    At times a tear drop drowns my eye
    For deals I had but did not buy:
    And now life's saddest words I pen
    "If only I'd invested then!"

    - from Farm and Land Realtor Magazine, October, 1917