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Hind Sight Through Polarized Glasses

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Services for Real Estate Pros with The Real Estate Investment Institute 1retiredsage

Hind sight through polarized glasses.

Do you procrastinate?

 

Do you wait for a better deal?

 

Do you wait and wait and wait and wait?

 

Do you live vagariously?

 

Do you masturbate your way through an imitation of life?

 

Do you live life as a voyeur vicariously watching what others do?

 

Do you second guess yourself? Even when committed?

 

Reading Todd Clark’s excellent post again today, I found:

Would your clients buy a home again if they knew what they now know?

 

How sad it was to read that the majority of those surveyed wouldn’t have bought a home if they knew what they knew now. How sad they learned so little. How sad they would have waited.

 

We all know "The Grass Is Always Greener On The Other Side Of The Fence." You bought yesterday and today the price is lower! So what?

 

Erma Bombeck said it best: "The Grass Is Always Greener Over The Septic Tank!"

 

Home ownership is so much more than today’s equity. See:  What Is Your Home Worth? Do You Care?

Regarding equity no matter how bad the market falls amortizing loans guarantees equity always returns! Always!

 

Waiting, for prices to drop only means you won’t get to use the home today.

 

Waiting to save a greater down payment means you may not need the home by the time you could buy it!

 

Home ownership is for those who masticate on life, enjoying every thing it offers.

 

When should you buy your own home? When your stable and mature enough to precise the benefits. Today and not tomorrow!

 

The late great Cavit Robert read me a (and 749 of his other close friends) a pome by A. Nony Mous back in 1974 Nony got it right, it’s still relevant. "The Reluctant Investors Lament"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hind sight through polarized glasses, filtered voyeurism, to masterbate or mastacate. To Buy or Not to Buy that’s the question.

 

 

Posted by

Bill

William J Archambault Jr

The Real Estate Investment Institute

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Comments (10)

George Souto
George Souto NMLS #65149 FHA, CHFA, VA Mortgages - Middletown, CT
Your Connecticut Mortgage Expert

Bill there are several so called buyers out there today that would right into your blog.  They have lost the true picture of what home ownership is all about.

Sep 20, 2011 10:23 AM
William J. Archambault, Jr.
The Real Estate Investment Institute - Houston, TX

George,

Like locus the procrastinators are coming out every where!

Todd's survey when back to 2001 those people indubitably procrastinated their way through the 90ths!

Bill

Sep 20, 2011 11:05 AM
Brenda Archambault
The Real Estate Investment Institute - Houston, TX

Hi Hon,

Very good ideas, and I do like The Reluctant Investors Lament".

Sep 20, 2011 04:09 PM
Todd Clark - Retired
eXp Realty LLC - Tigard, OR
Principle Broker Oregon

I think the biggest problem with those people that said they wouldn't buy was that they saw their home as an investment rather than home and a safe place for their family.

 

Sep 20, 2011 05:55 PM
William J. Archambault, Jr.
The Real Estate Investment Institute - Houston, TX

Hi Love,

I didn't see you post this.

Sep 21, 2011 08:19 AM
William J. Archambault, Jr.
The Real Estate Investment Institute - Houston, TX

Todd,

Exactly!

This is what I've been preaching "there's a difference between a house and a home!"

Bill

Sep 21, 2011 08:22 AM
Than Maynard
Coldwell Banker Heart of Oklahoma - Purcell, OK
Broker - Licensed to List & Sell - 405-990-8862

Yep, lots of people viewed it as an investment and want to make money when they sell, but do not want to look at the fact they lived there for 5 years and got value for that.

Sep 21, 2011 09:27 AM
William J. Archambault, Jr.
The Real Estate Investment Institute - Houston, TX

Than,

Homes like houses can be an investment, for most of our history a good one.

Like all investments there is a risk, they have their ups and downs.

Unlike most investments no matter the equity homes go on providing an extremely useful service regardless of their current value.

Houses purchassed for cash flow go on providing a dividan regardless of the owners equity.

Unlike any other investment when purchased with an amortizing loan, equity always returns! Always!

Equity is not a fuction of eather a house or home.

Those would be investors that purchased for appreciation are like GM stockholders, they have been ...

Bill

Sep 21, 2011 10:50 AM
1~Judi Barrett
Integrity Real Estate Services 116 SE AVE N, Idabel, OK 74745 - Idabel, OK
BS Ed, Integrity Real Estate Services -IDABEL OK

I have a good friend that has been an investor in real estate for years and made a lot of money doing it.  He always says you don't make money on real estate when you sell it, you make it when you buy it...

Sep 21, 2011 02:11 PM
William J. Archambault, Jr.
The Real Estate Investment Institute - Houston, TX

Judi,

Your friend and I speak the same language.

Bill

Sep 21, 2011 02:19 PM