SLOW MOVING TRAINS AND THE REAL ESTATE MARKET

As the freight train slowly made its way through town time seemed to slow down. It was

moving slow enough to read the graffiti on the boxcars and dream of the past. I was in a

long line of cars with a large SUV full of kids in front of me and a work truck behind. Next to

me was a carload of teens with the stereo blaring Hip Hop or Rap I'm not sure. I knew it was

going to be a wait as this train slowly rumbled by, the clickity clack sound was very meditative.

I placed my car in park and soon was drifting into memories of growing up in a small town on

a major train route between Chicago and Kansas City. I began thinking how simple life was

and how complicated it is now. If only we could return to those times. The sound of horns blaring snapped me back to see the train was gone and the SUV was moving.
Later that
afternoon those thoughts returned but I was not being lulled by the train sounds. My

family has always been in and around the building and Real Estate business so I have seen

many ups and downs. I began thinking about the times that I remember as simple and the

truth showed up. They may have been simpler yet also harder in some ways. No cell phones,

no Internet, selling a home was a long complicated procedure. To do business you had to always

be close by, I have negotiated contracts on the cell phone while standing on the Vegas Strip,

this is simpler than before. Suddenly a thought struck me about the Real Estate Market, we

remember 2000-2006 as a simpler time. We need to understand the way of business is

different today and not better or worse just different much like life when we were kids. If

we accept that the Market is on a course much like a train on tracks and will get to its

destination whether moving fast or slow our memories of this time will be fonder. Allow

yourself to meditate on the clickity clack of the slow moving Real Estate Market because it

will again be moving fast and you will not be able to read the graffiti.