Congrats : It’s The First Day of Spring
Congratulations to the New Orleans Saints for an impressive season and an even more impressive Super Bowl victory yesterday.
BUT THAT WAS YESTERDAY! And the end of the 2009-2010 NFL season!
For many of us it is also the end of winter, and the games, temperatures, weather conditions etc of winter. And although there is still snow on the ground, and perhaps more to come ( see Ground Hog Day), there is a huge and psychological culminating sense of winter season completion with the last football game of the year.
The drive home after work, now with a little more daylight, allows for a cruise through the nicer neighborhoods. Weekend open houses, all spruced up for the visiting curious, ever increasingly for-sale signs pop up like tulips, phones begin to ring, Facebook begins to hum with activity about someone’s search on-line, revealing a “great deal” to be had on Such-n-Such St. Then, the big one – someone you know tells you they have just bought a new house. They begin to describe all the really attractive features: fenced yard for the puppy, a freshly painted pink bedroom for the little baby girl expected just weeks away, a finished basement for dad to watch the Royal’s spring season, a “kitchen to diet for”. In my, now nearly 25 years of REALTOR experience in Northland Kansas City, from Weston, MO to Washington Street in Liberty, from the Platte River to the Missouri River, every year it is the same: beginning in early February, the temperatures rise just a little, the sun sets a little later, and folks begin to think of change, of renewal, of a new place to call home.
I hope you are ready. I know I am. Dark days and darker colder nights are diminishing. Soon. you too, will feel that urge to stretch out and seek out a new place to enjoy all those joyful activities of warm, and wonderful spring and summer days. But you must start now. Uncle Sam’s Spring Fling ( Stimulus Tax Credit ) too, will come to an end,April 30th.
Don’t you deserve congratulations, too?
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