Where Does The Time Go

It's Holiday season again. It seems just like yesterday that I wished everyone a Happy Holiday season and a prosperous 2011! Time flies, doesn't it!!

I haven't posted much here lately. Sorry about that. I did take a trip to New England in July and August, visiting relatives in New Hampshire and Connecticut and was gone for about 10 days. Then in the past month or so, I've had eye surgery on both eyes. A regular trip to the optometrist detected age related cataracts in both eyes, so I had lens replacement surgery on one eye on November 21 and on the other, December 12. As far as the results of the surgery....I CAN SEE, I CAN SEE, I CAN SEE!!

It takes a while getting used to though. After spending my life nearsighted, in other words, having great visiion for things up close, while things at a distance were blurry, I now have great distance vision, but have to wear reading glasses while looking at those those wordy, real estate contracts, lol. Yet, it's been a revelation and if you're, in the future, informed you have age related cataracts, don't hesitate to have the surgery!

As for real estate, it does appear that the abundance of foreclosed, bank owned and short sale homes is bing reduced. The last figures I saw for the month of November, 2011, indicated there were just over 7000 homes currently for sale in Oakland County. That's down from 12-13,000 a couple of years ago. An ideal, perfect balance situation though, would be about 5000-5,500 homes for sale. Interest rates also, are still at all time lows. So soon, hopefully, buyers will start jumping on the bandwagon to take advantage of those low rates!

I'd like again, to take this time to wish all of my clients, past, present and future, HAPPY HOLIDAYS! And may 2012 be your best year, ever!!!!