Real Estate Innovation

The Real Estate Market - You Just Have to Laugh

Whether you are a homeowner, potential buyer or someone working in the real estate industry, it has been a very rough couple of years. The market will eventually turn around, but it is going to take some time. Until then, you might as well laugh!

A doctor met an old lawyer friend and asked him what he was doing there. The lawyer replied, “Remember that lousy real estate I bought? Well, it caught fire, so here I am with the fire insurance proceeds. What are you doing here?” The doctor replied, “Remember that lousy real estate I had in Mississippi? Well, the river overflowed, and here I am with the flood insurance proceeds.” The lawyer looked puzzled. “Gee, how did you start the flood?”

Definition of “potential” in real estate ads - Grim. Steer clear unless you have a lot of money and believe your blind dates really did have nice personalities. See “Ready to Rehab,” and “Fixer Upper.”

The dream of the older generation was to pay off a mortgage. The dream of today’s young families is to get one.

The homeowner got into his grubbiest clothes on Saturday morning and set about all the chores he’d been putting off for weeks. He was halfway through mowing the lawn when a woman pulled up in the driveway and yelled out her window, “Say, what do you charge for yard work?” He thought for a minute, then answered, “The lady who lives here, lets me sleep with her.”

Q: When is a one-story house a two-story house? A: You get one story before you buy and the second story after.

My real estate agent always gives 100 percent: 12% Monday, 23% Tuesday, 40% Wednesday, 20% Thursday and 5% Friday.

When A real-estate agency hadn’t sold our house, we decided to do it ourselves. I placed ads in the local papers, spray painted a “For Sale” message on a and posted it outside. When my husband came home, he told me, laughing, that my sign was the most truthful one he had ever seen. In my haste I had printed - “For Sale by Ower.”

Did you hear about Robin Hood’s house? It has a little John.

They have an all electric home. Everything in it is charged.

My buyer told me that he lived in the same house for 10 years. When I checked, I found out he’d still be there today if the Governor hadn’t pardoned him.

Nature is all about cycles. Real estate is hardly natural, but it shows the same cycles. Things were red hot five years ago and will be red hot again in a few years. Just hang in there and keep a smile on your face until things come back your way!