Stan's Market Report \ September 23, 2009
Dear friends,
IThis with more than some regrets and sentimentality will be my last Newsletter ( really not a Newsletter at all) as over the next month I will be closing down my real estate business I have loved so much since 2001. So much is different now, including me; The market is slow, as is the volume of real estate sales, and I have this "good for 8 years" thing that has plagued and delighted me all my life. I guess I knew this time would come when we lost the Mountain Inn lease. There we were a "Band of Brothers" getting up at ungodly hours to sign in to get the first walk in, mostly new to Real Estate, all with the sense of expectation of what was to come. We become better friends than most and relied on each other as few have done before or since. Now, one has died, one moved on to a place call Utah, and the others' feeling perhaps a lot like I do. It is a point and a place in time that comes and goes and cannot be relived or recreated. It was and became a part of my memory bank I will cherish, but it is gone.
What will happen next? My listings and those in my database will be re-assigned. My license will remain at Wintergreen Real Estate so I can follow through with all sales in progress. I know that sounds impersonal, as it describes only and process, yet it does not convey the warmth and affection I feel for all of you who I met and the impact you had on my life and that of my family. Many of you will recall a time when I would take Matthew, a newborn, on appointments with me and now he has entered the third grade. And he is bright, charming, like his father , and beautiful.
I always tried to do real estate differently, honestly to a fault, candid even when it hurt, and I hope a sense of excitement and fun in all that Wintergreen had to offer. It still can be a magical place where family memories are made and are held and cherished for the rest of your life. I will always love the mountains and will always visit them, admire them, and find part of my soul in them. They really do speak to me in a way that nothing has or will; They ground me and give me the hope and the courage to go on.
As for me. Brown Auto in Charlottesville has offered me a position in their Subaru location on 29 South. So there is no excuse for you to not visit me and to use me as I will be a sales consultant for Subaru, Mercedes, Honda, Jeep, and Toyota. There is always the "family price" for my friends and adopted family. I may even bring respectability to the auto business, as I did to the real estate business (joke).
I will always remember, even as memories fade, those of you who became more than clients but lifelong friends. I could name them, but the list would be far too long, and the risk of missing someone too great. I care deeply for all of you, more than you could know or could imagine.
So come visit me. I am all about new beginnings and all the hopes and promises that a new life can provide, and at least one of you buying a new E Class Mercedes would not hurt either. God Bless.
- Stan
