Woulda Coulda Shoulda

Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda is a phrase I hear once in while in real estate.

Over the years, I have heard hundreds of stories about how someone shoulda bought this, or coulda done that, or woulda done this or whatever.

What am I getting at?

Everyone knows someone who is constantly living in the past, who had an opportunity to change their lives financially, or for the better, if they woulda bought that land for $500 an acre.

Or maybe it was that they had an opportunity to buy that investment, that has gone up 10 times in value.

It is kind of like Uncle Rico in Napoleon Dynamite, remembering how he could have helped win in championship football if they had they put him in the 4th quarter.

Do you know someone who just keeps bringing up those high school years?

I have always believed that you should get ready for the opportunity, and when it presents itself, you are ready for it.

I have heard people say there is no such thing as luck. They also say that you make your own luck.

My wife and I had been looking for a home. We found one on the market with everything that she wanted. Because we had been looking for so long, I hurried and made an offer because I knew it was a good deal.

I actually offered a little bit below list, because I was a "Realtor."

When we were looking at the home, we had to wait for a person to go through it, and there was a person after me waiting to see it. That "shoulda" been my first clue

To make a long story short, my small amount of greed, of trying to even get a better deal, caused us to lose the deal to someone prepared to offer more the first time.

We didn't even get a chance to counter.

The next home I came to, I knew I wanted it.

I offered full price and got it.

I told my wife that, I may have paid full price, but we got what we wanted.

Now I am not saying you have to offer full price on everything, but you need to ask yourself, "How bad do I want this?"

For me to live in the home of my dreams was worth offering full price.

If this were an investment, I might have dickered a little on the price, to get a better deal.

One thing for sure: every week I have practiced real estate, someone finally gets the nerve to do buy something, only to find out someone has beaten them to it.

So if you see an opportunity, jump on it. Know what you want, and then go after it.

I look forward to working with you. Let me know if you want to go look at homes, or if you stumble across the deal of a lifetime.

I can help you write it up. The paperwork only takes 20 minutes.

And one last thing, I have always said. "You can make more money doing 20 minutes of paperwork, than you can working a full time job."

That has really been true with the trailer park and rentals I have bought.

Success is a choice. Choose success!

Cheers,

Burke Bennett
http://www.seidahohomes.com/
burkebennett@hotmail.com
208 589 5599