I posted a piece early on in my blogging experience entitled The $800,000 House. Six months later, after discovering I could actually have a little fun with this medium and that people were actually visiting my site on an occasional basis, I wrote a second post called The $4,000 House. I even embedded the same funny picture of a lean-to shack, with good old location x 3 (Real Estate Fodder 101) and literary flashback (English For Amateurs 101) being common threads between the two essays. At the end of the year I was a little disappointed (but not at all surprised) when the Pulitzer commitee didn’t include me on their long list of nominees for my literary tongue-in-cheekiness. Come to find out, more would eventually be revealed…
And now, several more months hence, and fresh off a whirlwind tour of buy-side advocacy (driving internet clients around in my car and showing property every day for the past two weeks), I am finally able to kick back, relax at my writing desk, and fire off the third and final part of a real estate trilogy I envisioned 18 months ago when this whole real estate blogging thing began to make sense to me. My spellchecker is dusted off and the dog is at my feet. I’m wearing my LA Dodgers cap on backwards and my coffee cup is well within reach. Now, if I can just get my Right Brain to cooperate…
The $800,000 Buyers; Where Have They Gone? ……Wait….I’m stalling. Allow me to digress for a few paragraphs as a brief, temporal decompression seems to be in order.
You see, I can’t write and sell at the same time. Apparently every other notable real estate blogger I read can. Ardell can. The likes of Greg Swann and Russell Shaw certainly can. But I can’t. I am right brained and left footed when it comes to combining these two (to me) incongruous activities. In other words, I have to sell real estate to support my lifestyle but what I really yearn to do on a daily basis is sit at my computer, write about what I see, and listen to the radio. When Read more