How many times have I heard “I wish I would have…”?
When I first started selling real estate in the 1980’s, everyone kept saying to me that I wish I would have bought properties at the beginning of the 1970’s because the 1970’s were such a big run where as the market in the 1980’s was rather flat for appreciation in Boulder and because of that people would continue to say to me “Oh, I wish I had bought in the 70’s.”
Even real estate agents would look at properties in Martin Acres and say that they wish they would have invested in Martin Acres 10 years ago but then the properties were over $100,000 and at the time they thought that was ridiculous. The property values in Martin Acres then went up to the $200,000’s, then they were in the $300,000’s and now they are in the $400,000’s.
The thing that I look at now is what are we going to be saying in 2020? I wish I would have when things in Martin Acres are $1 million? It seems impossible now but I can tell you that the people who were sitting around in the 1980’s wishing that they had bought property in the 1970’s will be saying the same thing in 2020 and 2020 will be here before we know it.
My response would be that I wish I would have invested in real estate in Boulder Colorado in 2009…so invest in real estate now!
