The Pursuit of Wealth: Pockets Full of Holes.

My horoscope was right. June 27^th is definitely a turning point for me. Actually it most likely can be pinned starting from yester-night. Aside from work being a more positive experience for me (more on that later), things appear to be heading and snapping back into their normal pace of progression.  Mr. Bond is more direct, though still retains some of his mind games. Plus a few of my friends came back from East Hamptons. I was supposed to go there (and boy, would a month at the Villa do me some good) but I have responsibilities to take of – those that hopefully have taken root finally.  This whole month I have been working at attempting to redefine my approach to work. I see things slowly picking up, but not at the pace that I would like them to.

Granted, the first 6 months of real estate are known as a trial period where it is generally the hardest (and my lack of current income can attest to that) but I do want to be above the average, and for me this is month 3. Clients that I had wanted to close a deal with by June 15 are being reluctant for no other reason than sheer stupidity. I understand that they are coming out-of-state and have no general perception of the New York housing market, but their optimism is blatantly misled. The husband’s stubbornness is not helping. I found them an amazing place for 40% below market value. In addition to it not having to need renovation (of any kind), and it having reasonable maintenance (which the husband insists is too high *pffft*), in combination to amazing amenities, excellent and very lax building rules, this building is truly a gem. If I had funds for it, I would have already bought it. The place even has a working fire place - for New York City!! Well, they insist on getting it for even less because according to the husband, similar places in their town would go for less. Sure they reside in greater tri-state area, but this is New York they are talking about – they are not going to find a better deal, I can safely bet money on this.

So yeah, they reluctance and stubbornness to move forward is causing my pockets to have burnt holes. On the brighter side, I just found a new client to represent. Sure I do mainly exclusive sales, but being as how those are currently slow, I don’t mind being a buyer’s agent for now.  At the end of the day, I truly do enjoy Real Estate. I am so glad I left law.

Hopefully this week I can make more connections as things pick up. I have the Friday outing at Balthazar’s to look forward to, plus a picnic and a photo shoot I need to re-re-re-re-schedule (being as how it kept on being pushed back)  since my photographer is coming back. Plus Mr. Bond (as said before) has re-submerged. I’ll see where the ‘me-seeing-him-tonight’ will take me. Yesterday he did say something which I disliked, but I quickly shot down the topic in my ever creative manner. Humorous, but he got the point. Now my curiosity leads me. Tonight I will be observing his every move to see the underlying intentions – kind of hard to do since he is an actor and is practically trained at this, but so am I.