embrace the wait

We wait all the time, we wait in lines, we wait on hold, we wait for a prognosis, we wait for the next season of Grey’s Anatomy to come out, there are millions of reasons why we wait.  Which is why I find it so hard to believe that very few people talk about how waiting is an inevitable component when it comes to buying or selling real estate. 

In real estate we hear a lot about the fundamentals of a transaction, but rarely do we hear about how emotional the process can be and how those emotions can be magnified just by the simple introduction of time. 

For example, imagine you just found your dream home and are over the moon excited about it, to the point you have already thought about which way your bed will face in the primary bedroom.  You decide to submit an offer with a heart felt note attached to the seller explaining how much you love their home in hopes that they will choose your offer. You feel like you put your best foot forward and your agent sends it off and you wait eagerly in anticipation.

You feel like you put your best foot forward and your agent sends it off and you wait eagerly in anticipation.

You go from feeling elated and hopeful, but as every minute passes without a word back from the seller, you begin an inner dialogue in your head scrutinizing what you forgot to put in the letter, or maybe the closing date you put down wasn’t what they were looking for, so doubt creeps in and the joy seeps out every second that goes by. Finally, there’s thirty minutes left before the offer you sent expires, and worry and uncertainty consume you, until finally your agent has an update. In the span of just a few hours, you have been on a rollercoaster of emotions you never would have thought you would have and no one every told you about, and this is just one example of so many more.