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The End of the World is Coming Dec 21,2012

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Real Estate Agent with Your Town Realty

"The End of the World is Coming Dec 21,2012 so I can't even think of buying a house."  That is a response I got yesterday when talking with a past clients sister. WOW was all I could think of.  (I never heard of that one). 

The End of the World is Coming Dec 21,2012

I can't even imagine stopping everything in life due to what is "predicted" from this date.  It is regarded as the end-date of a 5,125-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar.
I was talking with her for over an hour and talked to her about IF The End of the World is Coming Dec 21,2012 then she should take chances and do things in life that she always wanted to do.  In our talking, I asked her if she could do anything without concerns about health, money and time what would she do..... She said travel the world.  So, my question to her was if The End of the World is Coming Dec 21,2012 then why not go after her dreams of traveling the world.  She told me it's to late and we have only 15 months to live.  I asked her WHY she would NOT go after her dreams if she KNEW she only had 15 months left on this earth.  She is to scared to make changes in life now.  Now I don't believe in the end of the world in my life time but talking to her and trying to get her to see that IF the end is coming she needs to stop worrying and start living her dreams.

After talking with her for over an hour, she DID decide to look into buying a house (we are going to look at a few houses on Saturday before my hockey game) but is still to worried to travel the world (which is her dream).  My mortgage broker told her she could buy a house in the $400,000 range.  She has $125,000 in her bank account.  Is it wrong to try talking her into using that money to travel the world instead of buying a house?  I talked to a co-worker at the office and he told me to get her to buy a house, and I'm in the business to do so but I still feel that it is the right thing to do to have her travel the world if that is what she TRULY wants before The End of the World is Coming Dec 21,2012.

There are more important things to help people with than selling them a house, but on Dec 22,2012 when she wakes up and sees that the world is still here I know she will be happy with her decision BUT will she regret buying a house instead of traveling the world?  That is something I will not know till after Dec 21, 2012.

Mary Macy
Top Agents Atlanta Metro - Roswell, GA
Top Agents Atlanta Metro

Well, you could live for the next year and a half happy, that is some time away

Sep 13, 2011 04:59 PM
Karen Hawkins, MBA - Langley & Surrey, BC
Royal Pro Real Estate Network - Langley, BC

End of World - hmmm, haven't we heard that one before?  Good to know though, Steve, good to know...ah, just how much do you think I could rack up the ol' Visa bill by then...  :-)

I might be a bit concerned as to whether the client had the ability to rationally give legal consent if she is that convinced the world will end - but I'm guessing a part of her thinks otherwise (as 15 months doesn't really seem like too late to enjoy traveling the world)  :-)

 

Sep 13, 2011 07:50 PM
Steve Warrene
Your Town Realty - Lower Burrell, PA
Pittsburgh Realtor North and East Pgh.

Mary, that is what I was talking to her about but she was/is insistent that it's to late to do anything for herself in a fun way.

Karen, if I KNEW the end of the world was close I sure the heck would not be holding back on anything. 

Sep 13, 2011 11:03 PM
Elva Branson-Lee
Solid Source Realty GA - Atlanta, GA
CDPE - Atlanta Real Estate & Short Sale Agent

My goodness, Steve. Talk about overcoming objections! You've got skills.

Sep 15, 2011 04:29 PM
Steve Warrene
Your Town Realty - Lower Burrell, PA
Pittsburgh Realtor North and East Pgh.

Elva, I never heard that one before about not being able to buy a house or travel or do anything fun due to the end of the world coming.  We all are going to leave this at some point so why NOT do what you wanna do and enjoy life.

Sep 15, 2011 10:56 PM
Joan Cox
House to Home, Inc. - Denver Real Estate - 720-231-6373 - Denver, CO
Denver Real Estate - Selling One Home at a Time

These clients may have to go into the folder with the Y2K people...and agree with Karen, maybe not rational enough to sign a contract!   NEXT!

Sep 18, 2011 07:31 AM
Inna Ivchenko
Barcode Properties - Encino, CA
Realtor® • GRI • HAFA • PSC Calabasas CA

we are still alive,

this one is my fav about the end of the world:

end of the world

Dec 21, 2012 03:31 AM