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  • Paying A Price For Not Being In Control

    Bird About To Take Off in Biscayne Bay
    Bird About To Take Off in Biscayne Bay

    I just got a follow up email from a super nice Realtor that showed my listing. She was peeved because the “client” decided not to use her anymore because the “client’s” mother just decided to get her real estate license. The worse thing about it is that this realtor has been showing houses to these people for 14 months.  As a realtor for 25 years, I am used to this. Sometimes you work for months trusting that people will remain loyal and then bam they go off with someone else.

    The lesson learned as a realtor is to get an exclusive buyer’s agency when working with a buyer. In my case last week, it was a matter of respect for another fellow realtor. My clients wanted to remain loyal. One of the reasons I am hesitant to work full time in real estate again is the yo-yo syndrome.  In this Miami market  of short sales and foreclosures, anything can go haywire after working hundreds of hours on a deal. (more…)

  • Open Letter to My Sister, Maria

    Poinciana Tree
    Poinciana Tree

    Dear Maria, we dreamed two years ago of many things we could do together. With your talent as a mental health therapist for almost 30 years and  my  wanting to inspire others to follow their dreams, much could have been done.  Yesterday my poinciana tree keeled over from its immense weight and now an electric cord is underneath it buried in the beautiful fuschia leaves.

    I called Florida Power and Light yesterday frantic that the electric power cord was going to snap especially since it was raining so hard. Luckily, as of today,it still has not snapped.

    There have been many times that my frazzled mind has felt like that electrical cord on the verge of snapping because of my career as a real estate broker turned upside down in the last two years. I never imagined the immense hardship I would have to face.  Even though I am blessed with the gift of my beautiful son,  family and friends who have supported me every step of the way, I didn’t expect it would be so difficult to get back on my feet again with my work. (more…)

  • A View From the Top

    If you were a building, how high could you soar? They say that if you can imagine it, you can build it.  I just saw this video of the world’s tallest building called the Burj Dubai. I am not suggesting that you can build something taller than this. I am using this as an analogy of the possibilities of what can be achieved. As they say in the video, “the giant dreams of man and nature.  It took 29 million man hours to build!

    If you are at the bottom of the barrel and rebuilding your life , all it takes is a blueprint and a plan. But the concept and dream always comes first. I am sure the planning of this took years. As they say in the  But now that it is completed, no matter how ostentatious, it is a wonder to the eyes.

  • My Dreams Push Me to Work on the Details

    I Took This Picture Right After This Butterfly Was Born Ready to Fly
    I Took This Picture Right After This Butterfly Was Born Ready to Fly

    This past month has been a time to keep on focusing on recreating income. I have been working with an asset management company. They send me on assignments to gather information for pre-foreclosure cases. It is hard work, but I am willing to do it to find new avenues to provide for my sustenance this year. Even though I am continuing my creative projects with publishing, it entails a great amount of detail.

    Because real estate is something I have done for the past 23 years, I have confidence that I can create new deals. The atmosphere is not the best. I think I was burned out from most of my deals that fell apart. I also was dealing with the stress of getting all new certifications to pursue the REO listings now.  I finally feel organized. The focus has to be very directed because I cannot afford to have more deals fall apart.

    It is because I have awakened my passion of writing and doing this blog that keeps me going most of the time. I get sudden bursts of energy to work the real estate when I get so many ideas of projects I want to do with publishing. One of my dreams is to create children’s books. So keeping that dream alive helps me to do the detail work now.

  • Time for a Pause

    zebra-cterpillars-on-vine-april-17-08-first-time-seeing-024I created this site with a lot of love and nurturing with my sister, Maria. We are collaborating as a team and are in the process of creating some great programs.  We both are working in our individual “day” jobs, have kids and many obligations. To not cause stress to each other and our families, we are allowing this site to flow organically and in harmony.

    We spent one year conceptualizing, visioning and dreaming. In our fast paced world, “time” is an issue. For this reason, we are taking a short break of a month to further nurture our dreams. (more…)

  • Can You See Any Symbols?

    detourThe passion that I have for my dream is greater now than the infancy of this relationship. I feel there is a possibility that I am choosing to go in this direction right now. That is where my heart is. I thought I could do both; I’m not sure if I can. Maybe I will. But for now, this is where I’m being led. A relationship does take time to nourish and to grow.  And so it is with this new creative projects that I am doing with my sister. It all takes away from  my free time, besides the fact that I’m also a mother, and I also love to enjoy time with my family and friends.

     We seem to be limited by time, but I realize that I limit myself in what I really want to achieve. Here I was confronted with finding a beautiful, potential relationship. Yet, it was broken up. Not by my intentions, initially. It was by fear, which we now realize. Now, I don’t know. I don’t know where I’m heading with the relationship; if I am or not. I’ve let it go for now. (more…)