You can go into many real estate offices...or websites and hear the "woe is me" tales...call an agent for a showing and hear how sad it is that they can't remember their last closing....Or sometimes you can read Active Rain blogs and profiles....the millions sold...this done and that negotiated....staff and assistants...and you know the market..you know who is selling what...then the story is..everything they sold was not in MLS....they have fabricated success....transactions...and need a dose of reality to either survive or find as some folks would say a "real job"....We know a number of short sale sellers....who had commission jobs that aren't paying well at this point...and refuse to give up their careers...change direction...so they hang on...some past the point of no eturn...they won't do a short sale. They choose to lose...to short themselves by going into foreclosure...by not paying child support...not finding health insurance...not admitting, adapting, changing...and those changes are NOT for everyone....Open your mind, your heart....your imagination...if you aren't surviving...doing more than surviving....it may not be just you that you are hurting...your family...Take a look...a long hard, honest look...ask a friend to help you look...it's hard to objective about your own situation.
We recently had a seller who had one of his children confront him with the economic burden that he felt the family was enduring. The child had taken over the cooking duties as the former full time Mom was now working...he felt at 13, he cooked healthier meals than all the fast food the family had consumed on the run to this practice and that game...so wise...and so street smart at this age. Another family, shattered by divorce...lack of income meant no child support on a regular basis....and a refusal from the not-now commissioned breadwinner to change direction.
Sometimes it takes someone else that you trust to give you an HONEST perspective...The dog didn't eat your Home Work. Now is not the time for you to be experimenting with survival...it wounds children, families, relationships, health for a lifetime...Don't blame the dog....that isn't what isn't working.
Great insight and wisdom as usual....you really make me think! Everyone needs to check themselves :-)
It seems that sometimes "thinking" out loud is the best remedy for whatever ails a business...talk about it...discuss it...air it...get another opinion.
Hmmmm. Gives me an idea about a reality show called "Reality Check." Think I can get a major network to pick it up? I'll split the royalties with you - LOL.
Ok....let's use cats instead of dogs...We can take turns with the "host" and Hostess of the show..One week Zo...one Cosmo...Magic is too shy....
So true about people using a lazy excuse for bad behavior. We need to be accountable for our actions and do the right thing. Thanks for posting.
Lazy is easier...no doubt...and people without a conscience don't lose any sleep over inaction....