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Planting Trees

September 27, 2017 by Ben Kleimer Leave a Comment

 

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The man who waits for a roast duck to fly into his mouth must wait a very, very long time. I love this Chinese proverb.

It makes me laugh and at the same time feel a little sad for the man waiting for the impossible. The humor comes, for me, from the visual image my mind creates. Imagine Shel Silverstein drawing. A kneeling man, an over sized mouth held agape and pointed skyward. The mouth has more spaces than teeth and his skinny frame is decorated with dust, spider webs and other debris from his head down to the pile of dirt that has accumulated nearly up to his waist as he waits for the dead and cooked duck to fly and fly straight into his mouth. The image conveys the dangers of waiting or hoping for what we want by stretching the concept to the point of rediculousness by having the man wait for something we believe is wonderful but experience tells us is not likely to occur. Funny if it weren’t so sad right?

So why do I draw inspiration from a proverb that conjures a sad or even desperate image of man in my mind?

The image of that man wasting his life into ruin also brings to my mind thoughts of another proverb. The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is today. The first sentence suggests, that if we want trees, we are 20 years too late. Like the man waiting for the flying roast duck we’ll be waiting in vain. The second sentence tells us that though we missed the boat 20 years ago, its not too late, we can still have the trees we desire. Some find this concept to be inspiring. Of course of course for many no tree ever gets planted. After all, if today is still a good day to plant a tree. So is tomorrow.

The concepts of these two proverbs considered together though is where I find the inspiration necessary for action. Together the expressed ideas move beyond the uninspired office break room poster. Together the proverbs tell us of the reward for taking action and the consequences for not doing so. When the sort of rah rah inspiration of the tree planting is considered with alongside the image of the waiting man, we now have motivation for real live adults. Carrot and stick. These concepts together provide the self aware person who is skeptical of taking action for action’s sake with the most powerful motivation of all. The realization that not only can a desired future be achieved, but that we must take action towards achieving that future.

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Snow Falls, Vail Real Estate Market Rises

November 3, 2015 by Ben Kleimer Leave a Comment

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After a spectacularly sunny fall the snow is coming down outside on the first snowy day. The Aspen leaves were spectacularly bright and evenly colored this year. Yet as the snow falls, the Vail Real Estate Market rises.

Real Estate sales in the Vail Valley did not start out with a lot of strength. When compared to the previous year, January was up, February was way down. March was up. April was down. Since April however, the Real Estate market has been showing real strength. May, June, July and August sales dollar volume was up in each month. Way up. As of the end of August, Vail area real estate transactions total over $1.2 Billion dollars. 14% more over the same period of 2014.

Drilling down, this data show there is real strength in the market. Being a fan of Mark Twain the famous speaker, “Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics”, I always like to take a closer look at number sets. Why? Rising dollar volume of sales is good right? Yes that is true. Yet misreading market trends results in pricing homes too high for the market or too low with a seller leaving money behind. In recent years seller pricing has very frequently resulted in homes being over priced and going unsold because of overconfidence in the trend of rising sales prices. Since the market recovery began and dollar sales volume has risen, the overwhelming bulk of that upward trend came from strength of Luxury Properties in limited market segments. Today, the dollar volume of sold homes has been rising roughly in parallel with the number of homes sold. While home prices and sales continue to rise at the upper ends of our real estate market, transaction numbers and sales prices are now strong at the lower ends as well.

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Filed Under: General, How's the Market?, Real Estate News

House Showing by roller coaster: Gimmick or Effective tool?

October 27, 2015 by Ben Kleimer Leave a Comment

How would you like to shop for a new home from the seat of a roller coaster?

Home tour via roller coaster?
Home tour via roller coaster?

By now you seen the video floating around out there in cyberspace which shows potential home buyers racing through a property listing in their very own car on a miniature roller coaster. Thats right a roller coaster. It seems that in the Netherlands the main attraction for a really fun evening at the theme park has been adapted to the often serious world of selling homes.

At one suburban looking home a full loop roller coaster track complete with descents, climbs and banked turns was constructed looping in, out and through a house for sale. In the video, potential buyers can be seen climbing onto one of the single passenger cars of the roller coaster for a personal tour of the home. The home tour begins with a descent into the garage, followed by a hard banked turn to the stairs where the car is towed up stairs to glide past the kitchen and through the living room before being towed to the uppermost level and finally outside the house and back to the starting point of the coaster. What a fun way to see a house!

The accompanying posts on Facebook claim that the coaster was built by the seller to attract attention to his house. Some posts claim the coaster was built by the realtor. Some claim the coaster was built by the homeowner. The reality it turns (video link) out is that it was built to attract attention to much more than this single house. As you learn from watching the BBC footage of the coaster tour, the coaster was built for more than selling just this house. It was constructed to be a part of a television commercial for the bank which owns the house and many others. I hope they were successful! For just one house, the cost of designing, permitting and building a roller coaster could not balance out for a property owner to offset a simple kitchen upgrade, and price reduction. As the centerpiece of an ad campaign intended to do more than sell only one home it is quite likely that the advertiser got the exposure it was looking for. Wether they got the exposure they were looking for or not, it sure looks like fun. Yet, wether measuring fun or home selling exposure I’m pretty convinced the coaster just can’t compare to the real live coaster we have here called Vail and Beaver Creek.

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Kleimer Real Estate New Website

April 1, 2015 by Ben Kleimer Leave a Comment

KREHome140100World-Class experience is what we put into our new website. Kleimer.com has an exciting new look, easy navigation, helpful real estate investment features and all of Vail’s great activities and events.

The Vail Valley is so dynamic and ever-changing. The world has been reintroduced to the Vail Valley with the success of the FIS World Alpine Skiing Championships. New town improvements, new mountain features, new businesses, and new ideas are everywhere. This re-ignites our real estate market and inspires Kleimer Real Estate’s new website. At Kleimer Real Estate we’re investing in changing times, communities that move and the focus on the future. Online is the new real estate sales environment and we are keeping pace. Wall Street Journal found online real estate shoppers to be the most likely to complete a sale or purchase. Visit Kleimer.com and see the changes we have in store to keep you ahead of the competition. This site is ultra-friendly for all mobile devices and smartphones, critical to the real estate shopper on the move.

Go surf our new site, contact us and tell us what you think.

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  • Snow Falls, Vail Real Estate Market Rises
  • House Showing by roller coaster: Gimmick or Effective tool?
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