Five Years in Camano Real Estate

5 Years!  April 2005 to April 2010.  Looking back, if someone had told me what running a real estate brokerage would have been like over the past 5 years I would have turned around and run.  Having said that – looking back now, I’m glad we bought this business.  I’ve changed so much in this past ½ decade, grown as a business person and learned a lot about perseverance.

At family dinners, one of our favorite traditions is to go around the table and share our high and low of the day.  We can only share one high and one low and it has to be from “today and today only”.   I was reflecting the other day on what my high and low would be in this business over the past 5 years.  My low would definitely be the recession (big surprise).  I used to think we were in a protective bubble on Camano Island and wouldn’t be hit by any of the struggles in the economy faced by the rest of the world.  I was wrong.  My high would be watching the company and agents transform into this productive, high energy, community driven entity. 

You know I love stats – I took a look at the end of the first quarter in 2010 vs. end of the first quarter in 2005.   I was happy to see that the average sale prices weren’t that far off from 5 years ago.  There are many more homes listed today but they sold faster then.  

It has been a good 5 years.   Our company is stronger now, we are more involved in the community and we are anticipating a bright future.

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