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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

On Wings of Hope...

“Believe in the magic of tomorrow, and your spirits will be lifted on wings of hope.” (Kobi Yamada) from Jack’s Winning Words.

It's time for an upbeat message and Jack happened along with just the right words for the day. As things continue to get worse all around, sometimes all you have left is hope for a better tomorrow. That’s certainly true for Detroit Lions fans and for the local economy and housing market.

But there’s hope for tomorrow. Hope that we’re at or near the bottom on real estate prices and that tomorrow value will start creeping back up. Hope that our local economy will weather the troubles in the automotive industry and that tomorrow we’ll find a way to thrive without being so dependent upon the American automakers. Hope that tomorrow will be better.

There are actually many positive signs that feed that hope. We are actually closing deals on many more homes this year compared to last year. Our dollar volume is down significantly, since house values are down and this year about 21% of our “sales” are actually leases; but, people are still buying and selling (or leasing) houses every day. There’s hope in that.

And we will soon have new leadership in Washington. No matter who you are for in the elections you can count on there being change, at least change away from some of the current, unpopular policies and directions. Historically that has given people hope.

So, let’s all believe in the magic of tomorrow and let that belief lift us all. Jack went on to say in his blog that he likes the song “Tomorrow” from the musical Annie. I could add that the words from the famous Fleetwood Mac song apply too –

Don't stop, thinking about tomorrow,
Don't stop, it'll soon be here,
It'll be, better than before,
Yesterday's gone, yesterday's gone.

Let’s all hope so.

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