The American Dream. Is it still Alive?
Well, I’m sure that there are some, maybe more than some, cynics that would love to argue that the American Dream is dead. In these days where the seller isn’t really a seller, you know, the kind that blood runs through their veins, the process can feel very detached. There’s almost never a connection between the buyer and the seller these days. The seller could care less about who buys their proprty. It’s just a monetary transaction. No emotion. The buyer still has a basic human need for a connection to the seller but it’s not going to happen. And since this is not going to happen, the buyer can never feal fully engaged with the purchasing process. Absent this connection, what drives the buyer to perform? I believe that it’s still the “American Dream” that moves people forward. It’s our desire to own a piece of Mother Earth, so-to-speak. It still makes people proud to get their slice of the pie, what they rightly deserve, a place to call home and somewhere to hang their hat. In our current real estate market there is a huge sense of accomplishment when you finally close the transaction. There’s one hurdle after another and sometimes it may seem anticlimactic, but it is big, really big !!!!!!! You get bragging rights. You’ve done it and now it’s yours. You can paint it, wallpaper it, scrub-a-dub-dub-it, landscape it, un-landscape it, and the list goes on. You can personalize it to the point it screams your name. And when night falls, you can sit down in your over stuffed chair, put your feet up on the ottoman, and with a beer in your hand, you can fall asleep to the fading sounds of the 10:00 o’clock news.. This my friend IS the American Dream”
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