THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX!!

As most of you know my second love (behind my family) is Real Estate and being a Realtor.

Several weeks I was feeling like I just HAD to do something to help my office get out of the "low" that many of us were feeling due to the negative press, the foreclosures and the so called Doom and Gloom the real estate market is currently experiencing.

When my girls were little I always told them that when life hands you lemons and at some point things will not be as you want them to be, you can be depressed or you can dig in your heels and make lemon aid out of those lemons and move forward. "Mountian I would say, get out of my way!!"

Then I got this idea.....Why not turn this so called Bad Market into something fun and in the process we would be helping the buyers in our community by educating them on the benifits that have opened up to them in our current real estate market. Believe me, there are some fantastic investments out there today and the interest rates are fantastic. This type of situation has not existed in a number of years and people are not getting the message by listening to the Media, or at least not yet. Hopefully that message will start happening but why wait?

Well....guess what? All of a sudden there was a positive energy going around my office and people were smiling and working hard on what was to be our first "Get on the Bus" foreclosure home tour.

Well today was the day, November 17, 2007! We had people calling in to get on the bus and by 1:30 pm we had our clients loaded up and on their way to tour over 10 foreclosure properties in Yuba City!!!

I'll keep you posted on how it's going but I'm so happy to see all these smiling faces and up beat people again running around my office and we are truly turning lemons into lemon aid in a positive community effort.

P.S. Just when you least expect it a little gift comes along. This morning when we were signing people up for the tour, some old clients of mine walked thru the door and we were so excited to see each other! I had worked in another office when they moved away almost 8 years ago and when then came back they didn't know where I had moved!! After being in 3 states, they are now back in Yuba City and I'm delighted to see and work with them again!!! Welcome back Harlan and Charlott!!

Blessings...........