During a class I was teaching in 2005, one of the students asked why all the “idiot” California investors were flocking into town and buying newly constructed houses for as much as $0.90 cents on the dollar? His question drew some laughs from others in the room and they also wondered why they would [...]
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Who Can Turn The World On With Her Smile? Would You Believe, A Real Estate Agent?
by Charles Feldman | August 26, 2009She’s smiling again.
Now, grant it, this might not seem like much to you, but, trust me, this could be the biggest sign to date that the real estate market is finally starting to turn around…if only a bit.
She, is a real estate agent who has been selling units in my Los Angeles building for maybe five or more years now.
In recent years, since the recession set in, her visits, with possible buyers in tow, became fewer and farther between.
And, when she did show up, the expression on her face made her look as if she had just drank a powerful laxative for breakfast. Yeah, that bad.
She apparently wasn’t selling….but neither was anyone else. How she managed to even go to work in the morning is beyond me?
And then things began to change . . .
If she weren’t a real estate agent, I would have thought her glow suggestive of….well…..you know….we’re all adults!