My First Time

All right...so it's my first time writing a blog on this site...pretty close to the first time writing a blog ever to be honest!  Little frightened here!  I am eager to get into the Active Rain community and network with other professinals in my area and around the world if possible!  I would love to hear from anyone who is in a simialr market as mine.  Long Beach is heavily supported by tourism, fishing and logging.  Needless to say, income levels are not the highest in those fields so first time homebuyers are few and far between it seems.  Or maybe that is just how it looks in this market.  A lot of our buyers are looking for second homes or vacation rental type property and will pay cash since they have it available for retirement or through a home equity loan.  My biggest struggle right now is keeping track of buyers, who is ready to buy and when and most importantly, WHAT they want!  So many customers stop by and say that they want to prepare for retirement, but are not quite sure what they want to do yet.  Ouch - you tell me what you want and I'll make it happen...you tell me you don't know what you want - and I get overwhelmed!  We've got raw land, we've got land ready to build; we've got ocean front or we've got ocean views, we even have canal or lake views; we've got walking distance to town or we have rural acreage; we've got fixers (boy do we ever!) we have new construction - we have manufactured homes up the kazoo! Name your poison! :)  How does everyone keep it straight?  Hmmm....that was a good start...TTFN!