ARE YOU WONDERING WHAT TO DO IN TODAY'S REAL ESTATE MARKET? I CAME ACROSS THIS POEM AND THOUGHT IT WORTH SHARING.
ARE YOU STILL WAITING?
I hesitate to make a list
Of all the countless deals I've missed.
Bonanzas that were in my grip –
I watched through my fingers slip:
The windfalls which I should have bought
Were lost because I over thought:
I thought of this, I thought of that,
I could have sworn I smelled a rat.
And while I thought things over twice
Another grabbed them at the price.
It seems I always hesitate,
Then make up my mind much too late.
A very cautious man am I
And that is why I never buy.
How Nassau and how Suffolk grew!
North Jersey! Staten Island too!
When others culled those sprawling farms
And welcomed deals with open arms –
A corner here, then acres there
Compounding values year by year,
I chose to think and as I thought,
They bought the deals I should have bought.
The golden chances I had then
Are lost and will not come again.
Today I cannot be enticed
For everything’s so overpriced.
The deals of yesteryear are dead:
The market’s soft and so’s my head.
Last night I had a fearful dream
I know I wakened with a scream
Some men approached my bed –
For trinkets on the barrelhead
(In Dollar bills worth twenty-four
And nothing less and nothing more)
They’d sell Manhattan Isle to me,
The most I’d go was twenty-three
Those men scowled: “Not on a bet!”
And sold to Peter Minuit
At times a tear drop drowns my eye
For deals I had but did not buy:
And now life’s saddest words I pen
If only I’d invested then!
OCTOBER, 1917
- from Farm and Land Realtor Magazine
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