Patience

The new word is Patience. Every transaction is taking soooo much longer than ever before. At the height of the market the transaction went from showing to offer to accepted offer to engineering to contracts to appraisal in a week’s time. Now it takes two to three weeks just to schedule the inspection. It is taking months before contracts are fully executed. And everyone is at their last nerve, me included. But instead of avoiding the phone calls or the emails, I embrace them as a way moving forward. Every conversation is another step forward. Every request for a utility bill, a septic cleanout, another visit to the property is a positive thing, a show of faith that this deal will move forward. Patience, breath in, breath out ----