Remember the THUD..........

Not because I told you so.........but I did in a previous post.



And I quote from the NY TIMES;



“It is very possible that years from now we will say that April 2009 was the trough in home prices,” S.& P.’s vice president for index services, Maureen Maitland, said.



to read the whole story, click on link

Now, you heard it here first:

The Gables has tighten up, so has South Miami east of US1, Grove is next with Pinecrest early next year.

Plan accordingly.....

What day is it?

So..If you have never been involved with a Realtor; here's one example of what I have to put up with all day.

This is a REAL email chain.....the names have been deleted to protect the....well you'll get it once you read it.

Editorial comments in ( )

Here Goes....

------Original Message------
From: Agent
To: Jav
Sent: Jul 12, 2009 2:55 PM
Subject: Please let me know if I can show your property at XXXXX..

At around 12 noon or a little later if you may.
PLease let me know.
Thanks!
Agent

(very nice email, requesting showing....note time/date)

Date: Sunday, July 12, 2009, 3:16 PM

From: Javier
To: Agent
Re: Please let me know if I can show your property at XXXXX

Hi Agent,
I just received this email.
For what day do you want the showing?
J

(I was showing properties and got back to them with in the hour)


Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 3:49 pm
From: Agent
To: Javier
Re: Please let me know if I can show your property at XXXXX.....

Around 12 or 1pm please

(Ok we got a please, that's cool)


Date: Sunday, July 12, 2009, 5:13 PM
From: Javier
To: Agent
Re: Please let me know if I can show your property at XXXXX

What day?

(simple request, I would think.......nahh)

Sunday, July 12, 2009 5:35 PM
From: Agent
To: Javier
Re: Please let me know if I can show your property at XXXXX

I would say 1pm?

Agent

(Ok, maybe I'm missing something here?)

Date: Sunday, July 12, 2009, 5:45 PM
From: Javier
To: Agent
Re: Please let me know if I can show your property at XXXXX

Hi Agent,
1pm is fine, but what day do you want to show?
J


(And that was that, never showed it, never could get a date.)

350 and counting....

Ok, TRUE story....

Years ago I rented a property to a nice German couple (notice how the couples are always nice) and I got this call the following day...

"Javier, is there any way that you could get rid of all the mosquitos in the yard?"

I replied "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!"

Which after that, and again this is a TRUE story, her dog barked at me in German and then bit me.

If it's not the dogs its the freakin' mosquitos!

349 and counting.........

No it's not how many deals I have; It's how many @#$%^& MOSQUITO'S I have KILLED in the last couple of days.

These little @#$%^& have been all over me the last couple of days.

They wait for me every morning at my front door like mini Jehovah's witnesses but with more determination.

They never retreat, they follow me to my car, get in my car, buzz around and then I spend 10 minutes swatting, clapping and other wise looking like a crazed maniac trying to smash the little bastards.

PETA my ass, these little blood sucking #$%^ deserve to DIE!

"Oh no let them live, they serve a purpose" they say, the only @#$%^&* purpose they serve is Lizard food.......and keep our beaches tourist free.

I don't care how much DEET you use, these little bastards don't care, they drink DEET like it was Red Bull, and forget using skin so soft....that's just gay....but you will smell nice.

This is why every summer, smart (read rich) people get the hell out of here it's because of these little critters (also Hurricanes, but that's for another day) and I cannot blame them.

BTW; that's why in the old days, we never sold Real Estate to Yankee's in the Summer...oh yeah and because of those nasty little windstorms........

Day in the life..............

Thank God I have a nice ride, because I am spending a lot of time in it.
End of June ended with this kinda day.

7:30 Grove Office for paperwork/emails/accounting

9:30 BPO for a short sale listing

And then the calls come in......AND AWAY I WENT.

10:30 Hang a sign in the Gables (which I just know will be taken down)
11:00 South Miami office to drop off said paperwork
11:30 South Dade listing (Santa Barbara)
12:30 West Kendall (Mystic)
1:00 Grove office to regroup and a bite
2:30 South Beach for offical Royal Atlantic Condo president duties
4:00 South Beach (rental Showings....Cancelled)

Well that's a good thing cause it's off to.....Pembroke Pines for a showing.

SoBe to East Naples in rush hour....how fun.

5:30 Park at Grand Palms, wait for appointment. In mean time, bust out laptop do the wireless thing and check some listings for a customer.

6pm Show time except appointment is running late (30mins) Oh and did I mention I have to be in West Miami by 7pm for some showings?

6:15 Make a couple of calls and push back 7pm to 7:15

6:33 Appointment shows up, we do the song and pony show and it's off to West Miami

7:18 After breaking several speeding laws, I pull into the showing and .....wait for it........you guessed it the @#$%^& Agent (who owns the home BTW) does not show up.......

7:20 We say WTF and we're off to a new REO couple of miles out.

7:25 We arrive and it looks like an open house circa 2005, there are 10 cars in the drive way and it looks like a bus load of tourist has disembarked and are looking for the snack bar.

7:45 After hanging out for a while and discussing that this home is a bidding war waiting to happen we decide to go home.

8pm Kiss Ana, pour a double (is there any other) bust out the Dell and reply to a couple of questions from customers.

All along, the Blackberry has not stopped, I have been working with 3 new customers, taken countless calls ; in short a normal day in this SLOW MARKET....

Lots of pent up demand, can't wait till the flood gates open .....it's about to happened and all hell is going to break loose....oh happy day.