{"id":3003,"date":"2008-04-21T14:47:37","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T21:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3003"},"modified":"2008-04-22T08:41:34","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T15:41:34","slug":"i-love-freedom-too-much-to-be-silent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3003\/i-love-freedom-too-much-to-be-silent\/","title":{"rendered":"I love freedom too much to be silent"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"running%20free.jpg\"I had some time today to write a few words. I’m waiting on a response — I spend half my life waiting on responses. Some people are prompt responders, some are slow, some are\u00a0UNresponsive.<\/p>\n

I was talking with\u00a0the\u00a0head relocation person for Gulfstream Aerospace this morning and she was telling me a story about one of\u00a0Gulfstream’s employees, head muckity-muck of hiring, and how she made a referral to a local agent to help him with housing relocation\u00a0who never called him. HEAD OF HIRING AT GULFSTREAM AND THE AGENT DIDN’T RESPOND! How does this happen?<\/p>\n

Gulfstream is our biggest employer. She also confirmed what a lot of us have been talking about — new hirees coming to Savannah for employment are choosing to hold off on buying. We both concurred it’s the psychological effect, mostly. There is a some\u00a0legimate cause for fear of the unknown in a shaky market and it’s understandable that people just starting in a new place might be afraid to make the committment to buy a home with so much uncertainty; however, underneath all that is a market opportunity to buy at the lowest point they’ll likely buy at for quite some time.<\/p>\n

So, we wait. I am not into convincing people to buy when they are afraid. I give my opinions, identify them as such, show them some numbers and probabilities based on those numbers\u00a0and let it go. In midtown Savannah this past twelve months there has actually been an increase in home prices — downtown is flat with a\u00a0slight decrease. But, we wait. A few buy, but the rest, we wait and see how things go for a little while longer.<\/p>\n

I have a suspicion that the psychological effect will break after the elections in November. I think many people subconsciously consider that a turning point, and end of some sort, a beginning of some sort. I don’t think anyone knows why, and most don’t consciously hold that position, but they will be\u00a0affected\u00a0none the less.<\/p>\n

It\u00a0WILL be a new beginning after eight years of Bush (eight years of any president makes us weary). I personally don’t put much stock in changing administrations Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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