Let’s Talk About Seattle Real Estate

I have been self-employed all my professional life. My wife and I have put two children through college, and saved for retirement along the way. It has never been easy for us. Over the last thirty years we have felt every bump in the economy, and there was nothing fancy about all the hard work we had to take on to protect ourselves from those bumps.

So, all this misery that the country is going through now I have lived with, in some version, all my adult life.

I am not happy to see our nation’s economy in this mess. This is affecting members of my family, my friends and my community, all in the present, and the deficit spending that will have to be repaid, by a universal increase in taxes, will burden the futures of our children and grandchildren.

It is going to take a lot of hard work, and most of that work will have to be performed by ourselves.

It will be very difficult, of that I am sure. But, it is all going to be OK, really. No one should lose faith in the ability of our economy to make the adjustments needed to once again support us.

But, as I have written before, it sure is going to be different.

And correctly organized real estate ownership will lead us out of this, as a nation and individually.

My wife and I had close friends over for dinner recently, a young couple about to start professional careers, and the question was raised: We read your blog and understand what you are saying, but, WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO? They asked for a clear, succinct statement of my beliefs and advice.

So, here goes, short and sweet:  Begin long-term planning for your life, using correctly-purchased real estate as the basis of your financial welfare. Utilize the expertise developed by someone you trust who has years of applied experience enabling him to explain the difference between fact and fancy in all areas of real estate. Accept the challenge to learn what to do to make real estate work for you and help you build a good life.

There.