I so enjoy it when any hard working Realtor achieves success. But when it happens to a woman, a single mom at that, well...it warms my heart.
I so agree with Barbara that when you get over the fear of making mistakes, when you stop being afraid to try new things...because...its then, that the doors to success open up...it was that way with me.
Even when I did experience failures, I could still recall what my previous successes tasted like and how it felt, I had it stored in my memory bank and that let me know that it was possible...again. So I never quit trying...even when things were extremely bad in the real estate market.
Yes...things have been pretty gosh darn difficult in the world of real estate before this current chaos was dumped into our laps, historically the real estate market morphed and was good again, then bad, then good again, and then not so good, again! It is that type of repetitive and historical adjustments that take place in the real estate market that triggered someone to coin the phrase...Real Estate Market...and not unlike the STOCK MARKET that continually fluctuates...thus goes the world in real estate market.
How many people do you think could, or would buy a home in a climate when the average home loan was at 16-18 percent for a 30 year fixed rate? (Some were in the 20 percent range!) Back then, we were all wishing, hoping and of dreaming of the good old days when mortgages were low...as in only...9%.
Back then it was crazy days...mixed with some extremely sleepless nights!
I was always reinventing myself and the way I managed my personal real estate practice...until the Internet came along and someone told me to get a website. I sort of thought THATwas a wacky idea, back then...now...not so much!
Fast forward a few decades and let me tell you, those historically high interest rates don't matter so much today, in fact, today, interest rates have been lingering around record low levels. The low interest rates alone were a shot in the arm in the real estate market, pumping blood back into an industry that nearly stopped breathing altogether compared to the way things had been when the interest rates went through the roof as high as cats backs!
Yes there are obstacles to buying and selling real estate in today's climate, but I have to tell you that properties are selling, and they are not just the foreclosures littering the marketplace that sell...real homes and every day folks continue to enter into and complete transactions.
When you think that THIS current market is bad, remember that not unlike a bowling ball sized kidney stone, with help, this too shall pass!
Now...if someone else can achieve that, so too can you, it just takes effort and consistency and perhaps thinking outside the proverbial box a bit.
Years ago, I read somewhere that 10 percent of the agents are responsible for 90 percent of real estate transactions, and that the remaining 90 percent of Realtors had to scratch their way into their share of the 10 percent of business that remained. Not a pretty fact, but still...today...that fact remains, 10 percent of the active agents are responsible for 90 percent of the real estate sales.
I knew exactly which group I WANTED to be included in, but I was also sadly aware of the group that I currently held membership in...and yikes...that was the other group.
Enjoy the video link below, showing exactly what is possible to accomplish, and take advantage of the slower market to spend a few moments reinventing yourself, your systems and your ideas about what you can really accomplish in this industry...even in the current marketplace, you just need to look at the positive angles, they do exist.
Click on the link below to watch the video interview.
Carol
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