Lessons on Living Life to the Fullest During a Great Real Estate Market and After You Turn 50

Hope I ‘m not so bleak in February. A month in the Great White North proves so challenging that any of us could be forgiven for wanting to spend most of our time in comfortable, flannel pajamas with the covers pulled up over our heads. But, it is after all a great month with Winterlude in Ottawa, the Olympic Games in our own, Vancouver and a great real estate market.
Ottawa is a unique city that offers a stable and consistent real estate market. We are seeing expected increase in home sales and although listing inventory remains low, this situation is expected to change as we head into the spring market. While higher prices caused by strong demand could make us nervous, we are not experiencing a risk to a still fragile economy, And certainly we can put “the bubble fear” to rest. The government and its Minister of Finance have a lot of tools at their disposal to prevent a “housing bubble” from raising down payment requirements to lowering amortization periods. Overall, we can expect a balanced housing market.
Spring, spring where are you?
Trying not to get negative and bleak at this time of the year (February brrrrrr, brrrr). I ‘m attempting to laugh more. According to my family I have never have been funnier. I’m told “You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing”.
On the subject of getting older, I feel at times, like laughing and crying at the same time.
I ‘m sitting here and thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don’t hurt. Maybe it is true that life begins at fifty but someone forgot to mention that everything else starts to wear out and definitely spread out. I started a new diet. It is called the Cardiologist diet “If it taste good, spit it out”
The older you get, the tougher is to loose weight because by then your body and your fat are best friends. Mine are joined at the hip. Recently, I read somewhere that reaching menopause is a sign that you are physically and emotionally mature enough to handle all the tough stuff that life has to dish out with grace and elegance. Wow!
I can learn to like the new me, my mature self. Someone once told me “always remember that you are unique just like everyone else”.
To summarize this first (and maybe a bit too long) attempt at blogging I would like to say that a true sign of menopause is wanting to sell your home heating system at the next yard sale. And, that the aging process could be slowed down if it had to be passed through Parliament. Ouch! Promised myself to stay away from politics. But it is February in nation’s capital after all.
Homeowners should be confident about selling and Buyers can expect more homes on the market to help drive prices closer to last fall levels.
So long, for now.
M.B