Regardless of whether you voted Red or Blue yesterday, there is no doubt that today is a moment of great Change for our country. The American people spoke loudly and clearly that a new direction is needed in Washington and throughout this great nation.
In his acceptance speech last night, Present-elect Obama challenged all of us to work together towards this Change and reminded us that we each are part of the solution to the many challenges our country faces. With respect to the mortgage mess, Sen. Obama said
Let us remember that, if this financial crisis taught us anything, it’s that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers. In this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people.
His words call attention to our individual responsibility in our daily lives and in our professional work. He challenged us to be part of the fixing of problems, not only at a personal level, but at the national level as well.
Fixing the financial crisis will not be accomplished solely by the policies of a new administration or an act of Congress. Rather, the economic mess we face will be cleaned up in part by the actions, decision, and choices of those of us engaged and active in the individual transaction that make up the economy. Therefore, you and I in our daily work and pursuit of individual business and economic opportunity greatly affect the direction of the change, the fixing, and the healing.
Short Sales present a powerful example of the role that individual economic activity has as part of fixing the economic mess. Short Sales are the vehicle by which a house’s broken financial structure is corrected while allowing a homeowner to move on to the next chapter of their lives with dignity, while providing the best of all available alternatives for a lender, while at the same time rewarding a professional for the difficult work of solving one piece of the mortgage mess – one house at a time.
Short Sales are relevant at perhaps the worst moment of a homeowner’s life (at least financially). A transaction involving a Short Sale requires extensive interpersonal skills and sensitivity. And like any sharp power tool, they can be used in the right hands to accomplish great things and create beautiful works of art, or in the wrong hands to worsen an already difficult situation.
Let today be the beginning of a great new day for our country – regardless of how you voted yesterday. Join me in bringing lofty ideals to the day to day work that we do where the tire hits the road and our pen hits the paper. Short Sales when done correctly can be beautiful, powerful, rewarding, and abundantly profitable.
Let’s seek to be paid very well for adding value, helping people, being part of the solution, and facilitating the healing of broken systems. As our President-elect said last night,
So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other.
Amen.
