Snow Delays Spring Market

Good Monday Morning to you. With all of these snow days and the kids still being home from school, I don't know what day it is! More snow is expected this afternoon, but only a very small amount, thank goodness. There is no doubt that our massive amounts of snow and the subsequent snow piles have delayed many listings from coming on the market. Buyers have not been able to go out looking and purchasing, and sellers have not wanted to list their house and waste valuable market time if buyers could not get inside their homes. What will this mean? I am predicting that we will be getting slammed from both fronts - the buyers and the sellers. There is a lot of good news out there for everyone concerning real estate. It is a more balanced market between buyers and sellers. Most analysts agree that we have been at the bottom for several months. Interest rates are still very low and home affordability is the best it has been in decades.

On a side note, our RE/MAX Town Center office is expanding! Our build-out is almost complete and it is a great addition to our existing space right in the heart of Germantown Town Center. We affectionately call it the "West Wing" and it will have a large conference room, several offices and a cafe-style area for social events and trainings. I can't wait to show it off to everyone.

Have a great week and enjoy the coffee. ~Lisa

INSPIRATION FOR TODAY:
"There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be,and you keep and hold that picture there long enough,you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking."
- William James (1842-1910)

YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS!

Walk into a totally dark room. What do you see? "Absolutely nothing," you say. Now, turn on the light. Where did the darkness go? Really - where is it now? Hopefully you will agree that darkness cannot exist in the face of light.

During a lifetime, we experience many types of "darkness." It may appear in the form of discouragement, fear, hopelessness, grief, ignorance, or poverty. Yet, in every case, there is a "light" in which such darkness cannot exist.

Fear, for example, cannot exist in the face of courage. Education denies ignorance any chance of survival. Grief disappears in the presence of peace-of-mind. Discouragement ceases when hope prevails. Wealth denies poverty its chance.

No matter what form darkness takes, it cannot exist when faced with its opposite. That also means we have the ability to send darkness on its way at any point in time. No matter how overwhelming the darkness appears, it is our thoughts and our minds that ultimately control the outcome. How powerful is that?

In the words of several favorite authors: "Think you can, think you can't, either way you're right." "Your life is what your thoughts make of it." "We are what we think about all day long." Finally, in the words of Tom Bodett, from one of his Motel 6 commercials: "We'll leave the light on for you!"