Selling in the Rain

Don't get me wrong...I love the rain, especially after last year. We had an entire summer w/o rain and were praying for it in August, so the overabundance of rainfall over the last two months has been a bit of a nice change.

Rain tends to slow people down when they are looking for houses to buy or sell, though. For some reason the rain keeps people in the house or keeps them from being motivated to get out and see new houses. People who are looking to sell their houses are in the same boat because they will need a house to move into when they sell theirs, so they are buyers as well. Funny how that works...as agents we sometimes look past the fact that most home buyers are also sellers and vice-versa. That's potentially four different transactions for us to help our clients thru.

In about a month when the weather turns a bit warmer and the sun stays out longer, we'll see more people start to move around. They get "cabin fever" over the long, wet winter and are ready to be active outside. This is when we start seeing people have garage sales and trying to declutter their houses. That's the beginning of the process when our clients decide that their house is either too small (so they need something bigger) or they are just ready for a change.

In the meantime, we still have houses moving rapidly in the market and there are lots of buyers out there waiting for the right house to come available. Get the jump on things...houses still sell, even when it's raining. And most of all, it can't rain all the time.

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