Home IS where the heart is in my book! That's really why I got into real estate to begin with all those years ago. I had already been helping my clients design their homes to make them feel more like 'their' home and I thought, why not continue on and sell homes too. There's nothing better than finding the perfect home for a client. You can see their faces light up and it's always a joy to see that. And that went for sellers as well when they were selling their home. I'd help them design it (stage it for sale) and sometimes when it was complete they would say - OMG this isn't my home - is it!! Well, yes it is your home, just improved upon! I gave them the option to stay in the home but they never took me up on it as it really was time for them to move forward.
I wanted to share our personal story of just how much we love our home and we've been living here for 28 years now! A few years ago we decided to gut the kitchen and bring it up to date. In the process I came up with this idea to have a "Time Capsule" built into one of the cabinets that was dead space. My thinking was to share with whoever the future owners of our home was, just how much fun we've had in this home through love letters and other fun items from us and a lot of our friends! We figured that would be years into the future....
Well that kind of back-fired on us this past month when we had a water leak in the kitchen due to cold weather and half of it needed to be gutted. Not exactly what we had planned on as the kitchen is only about 8+ years old!!!
In the process of tearing out the cabinets, one of the workman found our 'Time Capsule"! He couldn't believe that we had gone to all that trouble to do this for future owners. I smiled and went on to tell him the the back story and then his light bulb went on! I love that he says! I should do that in my home!
I went on to share with him that over the last 8 years we all continued to put more 'mail' in the Time Capsule Slot whenever there were more updates or other fun things to share.....which BTW the fun never ends around this home! Share the love I say! Tell folks just how much YOU love your home! Even if it could be years in the future. I think it would be a blast to find these 'love letters', don't you!
And this my friends, is exactly what I've loved about real estate all these years - experiencing our clients, friends and family enjoying their homes to the max!
A big thank you to Debe Maxwell, CRS and Pat Starnes-Front Gate Realty for hosting this months challenge! I've so enjoyed reading so many of the entries!
Home truly is where the heart is!
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