Navigating the 2022 Market, YES IT CAN BE DONE * foul language *

Navigating the Market. YES, IT CAN BE DONE 

Feeling frustrated and vulnerable? You are certainly not alone.  This market is impossible to navigate smoothly, its impatient, envious, greedy, arrogant, worried, vulnerable, unkind, reactive and it’s most fertile and pervasive quality is that it is a liar...simple personification or a reflection of human nature at the moment...you decide.  

Would you play a game with the hopes of a win before you knew the rules and while knowing someone can change the rules without telling anyone? …asking for a friend... 

 

Here are my top 5 tips for moving through this high-speed nightmare game of musical chairs: 

 

  1. 1. Tell your Realtor EVERYTHING, I mean everything. EVERYTHING. We are governed by confidentiality and Realtors by nature love solving puzzles and helping others achieve goals but we can't help if you don’t tell your realtor EVERYTHING....EVERYTHING. Plus, I guarantee we don’t judge, we are sales people hoping to help, and if we can we might get paid. Judgement doesn’t live in that situation; we’ve seen and heard way more complicated stories than anything you're hiding. Your situation is not unique and you will almost certainly outsmart yourself. 

 

  1. 2. The 11th HOUR DIVE. Be prepared to walk away. Commit to it and marry the idea of walking the F*** away. Someone will AWAYS have more money than you and there will always be another house, if that were not the case you wouldn’t be reading this trying to figure this nonsense out. Don’t let another deal or the fear of losing a deal dictate your top dollar or next move. If you don’t you may get to think about that for the next 10-14 years in the house you “WON” instead of “INVESTED IN”... 2007 anyone? 

 

  1. 3. AVOID LAST MINUTE ACTIONS AT ALL COSTS. Be prepared to let things die before you react at the last minute. This is real estate; we deal with emotions and people and pressure and distress and tears and joy and devastation. These emotions are NOT CONDUCISVE to a bulls**t last ditch effort for a power play. LEAVE AMPLE TIME, EVERYTIME.  

 

  1. 4. Be honest, be vulnerable, be kind, be collaborative, this is not rocket science (it's not even science), this is not chess, this is not a f**cking beauty pageant either, this is not a MENSA entrance exam, this is not espionage, or financial planning. We have to get over ourselves, everyone has skeletons and hardships and things we are embarrassed about. Life is rough and it takes a toll and it teaches us things and.......really no one cares as much as we think they do.   

 

  1. 5 Decide what you want and go get it. Your realtor will help you. 

 

  1. Above all else, disclose, engage, collaborate, visit, converse, be friendly, share, forgive, forget, grow, listen, care, have boundaries, help others, be honest, and remain autonomous. 

 

I hope this helps put a few things into perspective and allows you to regain some personal power in a world where chaos, fear and reactivity fuels the economy. It doesn’t take a scientist to determine that anything fueled by emotion and fear may be productive but not predictable.