Do you Believe in the Future?
If you believe in the future it means that you are confident that some how and some way things are going to turn out better than expected … your children will have good lives, there will be exciting new ways to do old things and there will be more prosperity and more peace in the future than there is now. It is natural for us to worry, since we often don’t have the knowledge we need to anticipate the good things that are going to happen, but if you believe in the future as I do, you overcome your worries, put a smile on your face and get ready for the good stuff.
Many of you will not feel this way about Big Island real estate, as the drum beat of bad news passes right through the very walls of your home, and every TV actor has a way of looking wise as he or she reads the bad news of the day to you. Still, you know certain things are at least likely, right? For instance, isn’t it likely that the Baby Boomers are going to retire one of these days? Isn’t it likely that medical care is going to become more and more important to an aging population? Isn’t it likely that retired people will want to be in the comfort of good weather for the years they have left on earth?
If you answered “yes” to those questions you believe in the future too … at least that part of it. Plain and simple, there should be more an more people wanting to retire to places like Waimea, Hawaii, where we have great weather and great hospitals. Since the anti-development folks have had political clout lately, there are a whole host of new barriers being created to make development of housing even more expensive and less likely to happen. It is the wisdom of the near-sighted for the most part, but it does drive prices up and up and up.
At this moment in our history, there are incredible opportunities to take advantage of the current real estate malaise by offering low, aggressive contracts for choice properties. This is the time you always said you wanted to know about … the time when prices are down, deals can be made, the stock market is good and money is still cheap. This is it. If you miss it this time you will have no one to blame but yourself.
Imua,
William N. Jardine (R)
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