Or rather, most mornings I greet the day with the eerie feeling that in one nanosecond I just may become one. If you can follow my stream of consciousness, I will explain.<\/p>\n
In 1989, Steve and I left our condo at the beach and bought our first “grown-up” house in the ‘burbs. Those were the good old days in San Diego, and our purchase required that we camp out at the new home sales office to assure we would beat the thundering herd to the holy grail of mass-produced, cookie-cutter stucco living. Actually, we had a guy named Bradley camp out for us. (Honestly, I don’t remember his name, but he could have been a Bradley). Bradley (if that is<\/em> his real name) was apparently younger, dumber, and hungrier than we; he spent 48 hours in Steve’s little backpacking tent on the sidewalk of Frank Daniels Way to hold our place in line. After two days of delivering Breakfast Croissants?, Happy Meals?, and Whopper Combos? to our employee (Bradley was a big eater), we were able to waltz into the sales office on Phase Opening Day (behind the Stevens-Family-from-the-Winnebago) to secure our Dream Home. Of course, Our 1989 Dream Home had stylish bleached oak cabinetry reminiscent of the, well, late eighties and, most importantly, white tiled counter tops. I’m sure granite had been invented, but it was not a builder option. Fast forward to today when a buyer in the builder “design center” is subjected to information overload. The buyer can customize just about everything but the foundation. At some point, and I am not sure precisely when this occurred, certain “upgrades” became viewed by home buyers as a divine right, as critical to the home as, say, the insulation. This is particularly true of granite counter tops. Today, a home with<\/em> them is not considered enhanced. Conversely, the home without <\/em>them is considered deficient.<\/p>\n Which brings me to real estate (finally). Last week, Toby Boyce wrote an excellent article<\/a> (and a Carnival<\/a> favorite) which identified information overload as one of the big paralysis-causing buyer plagues. I am the victim Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Or rather, most mornings I greet the day with the eerie feeling that in one nanosecond I just may become one. If you can follow my stream of consciousness, I will explain. In 1989, Steve and I left our condo at the beach and bought our first “grown-up” house in the ‘burbs. 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\nwe have since sold it.<\/p>\n