Real Estate Lessons from a Baby Shower

Saturday was a whirlwind. And although I promised not to call it a baby shower (too many connotations) and wanted to go with the more non-traditional baby "party" it did turn out to be a wonderful and perfect day filled with some of my favorite people in the world. Sometimes you just have to sit back and count your blessings.

But as a blogger, and as a real estate blogger nonetheless, you also have to see how you can draw inspiration and meaning from it for the investors and the home buyers. So here are three of my bigest real estate lessons from the baby party-shower-whatever-you-want-to-call-it:

1. Invite people to share the joy, not to brag - I think too many people tend to gloat when they are successful. How many of us have heard about the investor who hit the good times with that one solid investment property and then bragged about it for the rest of his life? How different would it be if he just shared the joy of it with his closest friends and family?

2. You really can pick your neighbors - Sometimes you have no idea they're so wonderful, though. My neighbor did all the work for this party. And I mean all. She decorated the house, brought serving dishes, prepared some dishes, bought the baby cake, and cleaned up afterwards (and a million other things I can't think of right now). I don't know what I did to deserve her, but thank God for good neighbors!

3. Remember what's important - I have a very strong sense of time passing since we decided to have a baby, so I have no interest any more in wasting my time or thoughts on people and things that don't matter. In the past, I've engaged in conversations and arguments with real estate nay-sayers on this blog, but no longer. There are too many great people and beautiful things in this world and the time to enjoy them is too short, so I'm just going to focus on having a great time!