2009 Completely Sucked. It’s Not OVER. Don’t Fret.
Did your business grow up or shrivel in 2009? Did you earn more or less? Were sales easier to close or harder? Were people stressed or blissful?
You made it this far anyway, right? Congrats! You made it through the first 9 months of the worst year EVER.
You and I are apparently survivors – Yea!
What’s 2010 Next?
If you’ve been around awhile, you know seasonality in the real estate business will shrink the opportunity pie through January 2010. Doesn’t mean there’s NO business for you and I, just a smaller pie.
Some will decide to bask in the seductive glow of the Holiday Season.
We Have Some Choices..
Most will slow to smell the pine-cones and sip eggnog. The cozy-comfort crowd will hibernate till January 7th, then Spring forward, blah, blah? That’s what most will do. Because it’s the easy thing to do. It’s a cozy-comfort zone and common.
Can I ask You A Semi-Personal Question?
How’d you work your way from bloody-back-there to hopeful here? How did you scratch, bite, claw and hard-work-navigate through the Wall Street Melt Down, the Rip-Snort-Recession and Housing-Bubble-Blow-Up? By doing what’s easy and comfortable?
Hell NO! I didn’t think so.
What’s Next?
Here’s what might happen…
- Job losses begin slowing – less people lose their houses, more people can afford stuff, the economy turns.
- Corporations begin reporting profits – people feel confident, companies hire more people, people spend more money.
- Retirement portfolios are slowly re-inflating – people feel safer.
- Interest rates will most likely remain low the 1st half of 2010; but talking bobble heads warn double digit interest rates loom – this creates a sense of urgency and fear of loss (loss of flea sized interest rates).
- Case Schiller reports home prices are on the rise – previously cautious buyers begin to feel homes have bottomed. 6 month and 1 year leases begin to expire; the flood of families who chose to rent consider taking advantage of supremely low rates and bottomed home prices.
- People who have the ability to up-size, downsize, rightsize, etc., have postponed needs and desires; this is called pent up demand. Desire and need doesn’t go away, it smolders and sparks to eventual satisfaction. When it’s safe, these able buyers and sellers will leap. This is called pent-up demand and a screaming opportunity for the prepared (you and me).
- Instead of my Pollyanna perspective, imagine your worst nightmare scenario unfolding in FUBAR slow-motion.
Pick your recovery mode; V, U, W or FUBAR; relaxing into the Holiday Season will kill your chances to explode into the 2010 New Year.
Knowing the “slow season” will seduce most into a cozy-comfort zone of inactivity and invisibility, you can choose the same and hope for the best in 2010 or you can choose…
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Cheers. Any questions, just give me a call: Ken Brand 832-797-1779
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