You can’t.  Goodbye.

JUST KIDDING.  I just needed to say that. I should say, “Here we go again”, as we enter a falling/stabilizing market and news tells us there’s going to be a crash.  I watched a video last evening, one published five months ago, saying, “It’s here!  It’s terrible!”.  Well it’s not here; there is no crash.

Yet.

Listen, we are approaching an election year, interest rates are up and going up ‘one more time’ this year, everybody’s budget is ruined due to the economy, meaning food and gas prices, light bills, water bills, you name it.  Yep, a perfect storm for real estate.  And why on God’s green earth would anyone give up a 3% interest rate for a 7.2% one?  

What I WANT to say is that you cannot materialize buyers and sellers by pounding on agents or paralegals or real estate Brokers-in-Charge.  Pound away!  The economy is still in the toilet.  I’ve seen this behavior SO many times: Oh let’s have a MEETING to discuss HOW WE CAN GET AGENTS to bring contracts in.  

I know how:  Fix the economy.  If you can’t DO that, go away and stop acting like real estate agents can magically materialize transactions.  There are still transactions happening, but on the hot heels of a ridiculously inflated market, anything near normal is going to look like actual hell.  So calibrate, is what  I’m saying.

Now, goodbye.  Relax.