Tsunami Warning!!

Greetings Fellow Surfers!

I had the opportunity to rise with the sun this morning; and looked out to sea to see what I could see. There, just out on the horizon, I saw the formation of what appears to be a wave, but just not any wave.

Based on the groundswell, shape and direction, I believe that this baby will become a tsunami. For the last few months, all the elements of a perfect storm have been gathering.

Have you seen the lowest home prices in a decade? How about the 50 year lows in interest rates? Did you think this eruption would not make waves?

While you've been standing on the beach with your pail and shovel building sand castles with an Open House sign in front of them, or scanning with your metal detector for buried treasure, the slow steady churn has begun.

I feel it my civic duty as both a Realtor and a concerned fellow citizen to sound the alarm. Look up! look out there, it's coming baby! Prepare for the ride of your life or the mother of all wipe-outs!

I've got my board waxed, my sunblock on and my listing contract in a watertight container.


Ready or not here it comes!

Go Get The Cheese!!

You can’t pick up a newspaper or surf on-line without being barraged by an avalanche of bad news about the economy, real estate or Brad & Jen. Come on people, did you really expect that as soon as Barack Obama took office that everything would just spring back to the way it was? Happily, I am not one of those people.

You see Desperaux (the mouse) had it right! While all the other mice scurried off and cowered when the light came on, Desperaux remained steadfast, eyes wide open.

So, are you a man or a mouse? I vote with the mouse.

When the world is illuminated, we can see all the abundance that it has to offer. When you cower and head for the hills, you fail to see the beauty and opportunity that is out there.

In my 14 years of real estate experience, I have never witnessed such a promising market. Really! Buyers and Sellers alike. Don’t live in fear. Desperaux was right! Go get the cheese!

Believe We Must!

Why are we buying into all this doom and gloom? How does that make you feel? Keep telling people that the sky is falling long enough and eventually they will start believing it. Invest yourself in your inspired reality. OK we are faced with many unresolved problems right now, but that is nothing new. Life has always been about dealing with problems. The difference is that we have become a civilization of mindless minions. Life is a struggle. That has not changed. What has is our resolve and our courage to meet our challenges and obligations. We have morphed into the "I'm not responsible generation", it's not my fault. An unrealistic sense of entitlement; that somehow we are owed health, happiness and prosperity. We are not. We are not even guaranteed tomorrow. For the last 50 years we have shifted our paradigm and along with it we lost our grounding in this earth, our respect for the earth , our true reality. We have become a nation living in a self induced drug haze.Snap out of it people! We still have the power to change our reality; a new story has yet to be written. Are we men or holograms? Shadow or substance? Fear I fear is the new reality. We fear losing our, (fill in the blank). I say we must become the new pioneers of tomorrow. Strike out with a renewed sense of determination and hope. Let us lift the veil of darkness and despair and see our world as it is, as it can be. In the face of our creator we can see the eternal joy and exileration of life. How precious is our next breath! How fragile it's beauty. Find your joy and repel those whose thoughts and actions seek only to tear us asunder. Believe we must!