If you dislike gushy, touchy-feely, inspirational talk, you'll HATE this post. If you want to hear about a typical day of a Palm Harbor real estate agent then you'll REALLY HATE this post. Will you read it anyway?
I'll confess, being a Palm Harbor real estate agent in this market is sometimes hard. We're blessed to be helping some folks facing Dunedin and Palm Harbor foreclosures, via Short Sales, and some of them amidst this turmoil in their lives can be a bit heavy to deal with. And they may get sick of my "positive speak" about believing, visualizing and going after their dreams, but hey guys and gals - I can't stop. I've been a train wreck more than once, and thanks to a culmination of things, including vision and faith, that's ancient history now. Now it's all about helping you - with your real estate needs - and in any other little way we can hopefully make a difference.
This morning I showed this Dunedin Short Sale to a fellow who was, and let me try to be 
polite here, I guess having a very bad day and was pretty hostile. I'll call him Charlie to protect the innocent (sorry, Charlie). I tried to put the incident past me but Charlie kept creeping into my mind throughout the day. I kept wondering why Charlie was so upset and why I had that experience.
Then it was off to write an offer on a great Palm Harbor home in East Lake for Sasha and Kim. We've got some hurdles to overcome to get to the closing table, but I believe we'll get there. Next I was off to meet with one of our wonderful Palm Harbor short sale client friends, just to meet with him briefly to put his mind at ease and remind him of the end goal, as it seems that the bank's collection people were starting to get the best of him. Then it was a usual afternoon of scheduling showings, returning calls and the like.
One call I didn't expect was from Charlie! Charlie was mellow. A different fellow. We got to talking and he shared why he's stressed out. And low and behold, I can completely understand why he would be, and better yet, it's something I can easily help him with. We can be a team, Charlie and I. Charlie's thinking about it tonight and he's going to get back to me. He saw our business card today and logged on to the Pinellas Peach. He likes the fact that Matt and I seem to have this "real estate groove thing going on" and he thinks The Peach is "tasty"! This morning I told myself I'd be fine if I never saw Charlie ever again. Tonight, I am really looking forward to hearing from Charlie again, and, to quote him, even if he doesn't want to buy the damned house. I'll readily admit, I've now got this soft spot for Charlie.
Tonight, we watched history unfold with our 5-year old son as Michael Phelps won the 100-meter butterfly by .01 of a second for his 7th Gold Medal this Olympics, tying Mark Spitz's record for the number of wins at a single Olympics. When interviewed by NBC after the race, Phelps was asked something to the tune of "you probably didn't really think that something like this could have been possible?" and then again "you didn't really believe you'd win this many Golds, did you?". His answer (paraphrased here because I can't Google it) says it all: "Yeah, in my dreams I actually did believe it was possible. I saw all of this happening".
Well, there you go. That's why our motto at Suncoast Partners is that "In Life and Real Estate, Everything's Possible". We see it happening. Every day.
If you've read this far, I bet you do, too?
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