Personal thoughts from within the Luxury Real Estate network
By Robert Lockard
Predicting the future is a tricky game, as you can easily see from the failure of many experts last year to predict the problems this year in this Inman News article, entitled “2007 real estate forecaster report card.” I don’t expect people to be perfect and so it’s completely understandable even for experts to make mistakes from time to time. But here’s my question: Why do these experts spend time trying to predict things that they ultimately have little ability to control? Why not devote more time to simply suggesting good courses of action for regular people to take? That would definitely be more helpful to you, me and other homebuyers and sellers.
People probably pay more attention to expert advice about not getting into too much debt or staying away from certain risks because it’s something they can actually control. But hearing that a certain number of millions of homes are expected to be bought or sold in the coming year means little to most people. I just think it would be smarter to focus less on guessing and more on doing. Instead of asking, “What’s going to happen?” let’s ask “What can we do to better our situation?” Anyway, feel free to let me know what you think.
And, by the way, Happy New Year!
Editor’s Note:
Robert Lockard is the Public Relations & Media Specialist with LuxuryRealEstate.com. I am Robert. I create all of Luxury Real Estate’s newsletters, write the editorials in LuxuryRealEstate.com Magazine and much more.
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