Somehow the Right House Calls to You, Even if it's just in a Whisper

I've been selling houses for almost a decade already. Can't believe it. Still love it, even in this difficult market. And, the main reason I still love it? Because nothing feels better than seeing the smile on a clients face, the joy in their heart, the happiness of their family, when they find the right house to make their next home.

We tell our clients to make a list of ten things they want in a home. Tell them to hope to get 7 or 8 of them. And, really, don't make more than ten. If the list is too long, you will be disappointed over and over again. You'll search and search for the perfect house that has all four hundred things you want in a house (well, not really four hundred!), and you'll never ever find it.

So, with that list in their heads and mine, we head out looking for their next home. We search every parameter configuration imaginable.  We search different cities, different tracks, different floor plans, different sizes, different amenities.  All in the search for the home that is going to call out to them. The one that is going to say 'Pick me and I'll make you happy....I promise!'.

Sometimes, in the search, the house you were sure they will want, they won't. And sometimes too, they pick a house that has 3 or 4 of the things they said they wanted, but it just feels like it's to be their home. Ones, that are certain they need space for a Trampoline in their yard, so it has to be a big yard.....and the one with the smallest space for the Trampoline to fit?....they decide it's absolutely perfect for them.

And, other times, my favorite of times, we see the house together and we all know, without much discussion, it's the one. The one that doesn't need to yell out loud that 'I'm the one for you!'. It's the one that whispers it, softly and sweetly, just whispers that they are meant to be together. And, when we all feel it deep inside and the whisper is heard by everyone? We all whisper back.....'This is it, this is the one that is going to be home'......and that's the best of all. When we all feel it, we all hear it, we all know it.

I have a client right now that we all spoke in a quiet whisper of a voice when we drove up to the house and got out of the car. He, his brother and myself. We all got out and we whispered, didn't even have to wait for the house to do it......we already had.