The White House has posted President Obama’s weekly address.
This week the President discusses the multitude of problems and opportunities before the world through the prism of Passover and Easter: “These are two very different holidays with their own very different traditions. But it seems fitting that we mark them both during the same week. For in a larger sense, they are both moments of reflection and renewal. They are both occasions to think more deeply about the obligations we have to ourselves and the obligations we have to one another, no matter who we are, where we come from, or what faith we practice.”
As real estate professionals we tend to be optimistic people. If you are not optimistic you will probably not stay in real estate, especially during these down times. Most RE agents and brokers I talk with are looking toward an improving housing market just around the corner; are searching for the right marketing idea that will bring in buyers and sellers alike. Negative thoughts, while they arise, are quickly banished in the quest for solutions to today’s market. We don’t have time to wallow around in negative thinking.
Real estate professionals also tend to think about “the obligations we have to ourselves, and the obligations we have to one another, no matter who we are, where we come from, or what faith we practice.” Some of this attention to the obligations we have to one another comes because of the Real Estate Law of Agency, and the laws about equal housing opportunity. Real estate professionals are forced by law to tend to the obligations we have to others, but because we follow the law, we become formed by the law. You see, people form laws because of what they believe, but people are also formed by the laws that they practice. As we practice being non-discriminatory toward people no matter who they are, or where they come from, or what faith they practice, we become people who don’t discriminate — we become more accepting of others. So real estate professionals are ahead of much of society in this regard. I think that is pretty cool.
May everyone have a blessed and happy Passover and Easter season.
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