It Is What It Is...

I totally agree it is what you make it!!!!

Excellent post, thanks

"It is what it is" is an outlook on life (it's a very poor outlook on life). Glad to know there are others who think differently, are doing/saying something about it, and are impacting the lives of buyers and sellers in our markets.

Just imagine if I had said "it is what it is" when dealing with a few difficult buyer predicaments over the past several months:

• a 0 score borrower wouldn't have closed on his purchase in January;
• a borrower who's ex-spouse filed BK in 5/2009 and let their marital home (where they were still joint borrowers) go back in foreclosure in 4/2010 wouldn't have closed on traditional mortgage financing for a new purchase in January; and
• a borrower who made one late mortgage payment in 6/2010 wouldn't have been able to close on the purchase of a new home in November.

Your current circumstances can always be changed unless you have the submissive attitude of "it is what it is". For those IIWII folks: just get out of our way so we can make things better. Keep up the can do attitude, Andy!

Andy, good analogies. I hear that phrase often as well, and I guess when I heard it, I'd just think the person had given up. My biggest peeve in life are people who complain about something over and over, but never change anything. It is what it is, 'IS' only if you let it...

That has always made me upset, too.  It goes along with "we have always done it that way".  And, when the slow down first started "nothing is selling".  Poohey.  So I have to work harder to keep deals together because another buyer is not right around the corner, so I have to call more sellers to find one willing to list at a reasonable selling price, so I have to sell four times as many houses to make the same amount of money....So?  Anyone in this business who thinks they know it all and have seen it all, has not been in the business long.  ....or won't be.  Ruth