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Whenever people tell me they are looking for land I get involved with a passion when I am able. I love to show land and sell land more than any other type of real estate I know of. There is land you can farm, land for grazing, timber land, residential lots, ranchland, upland, bottomland, wasteland, land with live water, waterfront land, waterview land and so on. The more questions asked, the better picture of what type of land is being sought and even though that helps tremendously, you have to show them a lot of land before you can get a picture of what they really want.
Showing houses is a lot like showing land but there are only some many available that will fit the kind of criteria most search questions help narrow your choices down to. True, there may be several that are close but I find I can get closer to knowing what to show people sooner when dealing with house hunting than looking for land. Yes, I do enjoy helping people find the home they really are looking for and find it very rewarding and fulfilling when they say they have fallen in love with this house. Mission accomplished and usually in less time that I would expect after showing several that did not seem close.
But it just never goes that way with land hunting and the hunt is what I enjoy, which is probably why I love searching for the parcel my clients have pictured in their mind the most, because it really is the most challenging. We will look for two or three times longer for a piece of ground that is just what my clients want than for a house they have pictured in their minds. Every land search takes that much longer and is that much more challenging in my opinion. Knowing the challenge it presents and the hunt involved must get the “old hunter” going in me and makes my ears perk up every time I hear, “We are looking for some land” Yahoo, here we go again, around the Missouri Ozarks on my rounds.
Filed under: Life in the Ozarks of SW MO, Ozarks, Ozarks Real Estate, Uncategorized | Tags: Branson, life, Ozarks, perspective
Black Walnuts harvested from fall 2008.
Politics aside, I have been hoping this year would be better than last year for quite some time. Thankfully, I can tell you already this year is better than I expected just a few months ago. Keeping a positive attitude and expecting the best always helps, but seeing more contracts and closings this month at almost the mid-point than a couple of the previousl months combined proves that it is truly happening locally just as I had hoped, and even better. I am posting this only to encourage those who are still wondering if there is enough activity going on in the real estate market yet this year to dare hope that the market is turning around. I would have to say it is starting to get better, in my opinion.
You may think I am nuts but that is why I put this picture up. A few months ago my grand-daughter and I were road hunting for Grandma’s favorite fudge ingredient to prepare for the holiday goodies we love. We were able to round up over a hundred black walnuts we found along the side of the road while driving through the local hollers. So, after spending a couple of long afternoon trying to husk them and getting very stained hands, we decided to let them just sit and rot.
Sometimes you can work and work and not get anything but dirty hands and then you stop and wait for awhile to ponder the situation awhile. Then you go back and find that things have progressed right along at their normal pace without your help and are now ready for the harvest. You see, after the husk has turned black and the hulling worms have done their job, you can just knock that junk off them, crack the shell and get the meat. It seems so easy when you do it right. Duh! Naturally, getting all the prep work done right ahead of time is the KEY! So don’t go nuts, just keep on working and waiting, you will harvest!
Filed under: Missouri, Missouri life, Ozarks, Ozarks Real Estate, Ozarks lifestyles | Tags: advertising, branding, Branson, perspective, Table Rock Lake
Bubba got a big one:)
REALTOR®
for a brokerage that went out of business last year, I was forced to create a new brand and re-start my business from square one in an environment that could not be described as a “cyber-culture.” Just to avoid any misconceptions, I am not saying that the Ozarks are full of illiterate, banjo playing, hillbillies, but our lifestyle is not a starbucks-fueled, hyper-blackberry, speed-racer paced one either. Branson and the Table Rock Lake
area are more of the retro-baby-boomer oriented style of culture that know how to use the internet but are not dependent upon it daily.
My challenge has also been maximized by the reality that in our rural area, which is true in much of
Missouri, there are no daily newspapers or even rarer, local radio stations. Communicating my brand to this rural region is therefore not able to be done by e-newsletters, newspaper advertising, nor occasional radio blips. Matter of a fact, there is no certain way to reach a majority of those who live in and/or frequent this neck of the woods. This brings me to reason for my story. As the newly branded Agent for the Ozarks, my challenge is huge!
