My favorite time of the year

Fall is officially here, although the fall home buying and selling season kicked off weeks ago. I love this time of the year, especially when the leaves change colors. It is such a restful time spirit wise. Not restful in the real estate arena though. Things really get busy this time of the year. People who have been thinking about selling their homes, finally decide to put the For Sale sign up. People who have been thinking about buying finally decide they need to go on and jump in, especially before we move into the holiday season and they get too busy to do anything but shop for holiday gifts. Unfortunately these days the media are so busy telling people how bad things are that some people have bought in to the motion that the bottom is falling out of the housing market. Believe me, that is not the case. More houses are on the market, true, but more people are out there looking and what the market is actually doing is becoming more normal. Sure sells are down slightly from last year but a 2 percent decrease does not mean the bottom's falling out. If you want to buy get out there are start looking. If you want to sell, look at your house from the buyer's perspective and do all those things you've been meaning to do to spruce it up and get it on the market now. If you wait until Nov. or Dec. you'll be setting yourself up for a long winter. If you have questions about the market give me a call, email me or go to my website at http://www.angelajonesrealestate.com

If you have a home equity line of credit and it's creeping up slightly because of interest rate increases, the Post had an article Sat. that is useful: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/22/AR2006092200023.html

That's it for now. Enjoy the rest of your day. Truly enjoy it because remember, you can rest when you die!