Greg Snow - Southwest Florida Real Estate Expert provides real estate services to Cape Coral, Fort Myers, Sanibel and Captiva Islands

As we enter the month before "the cruelest of months", our weather here in Lee County, southwest Florida, has been "cool, cold, and brisk"and doesn't feel anything like we are getting close to spring. Our real estate market has become somewhat difficult to evaluate with the lack of ideal beach and boating weather lending to many of our visitors "looking" at our local housing opportunites. If we have really "seen the eyes of the oysters", and now the market has stabilized, is this the best time to make a housing decision? Of course, my subjective view is like in "Trading Places", where it's buy, buy, buy, or sell, sell, sell.... If only it would take a wager of a single dollar to successfully promote such market activity.

Have we evolved in the United States from a service -based economy to one that is permeated with experienced-based as our final decision making tie breaker? If this is the case, then we may still be in a hold mode for buying real estate in southwest Florida. "What is past is prologue" is from "The Tempest", and is also on a satute in front of our National Archives building in Washington, D.C.  www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/pa14.cfm, and is very accurate in our world of real estate here. Life is shorter than we would want and choices are an every day opportunity for us all. Our concern should be on creating new experiences that will leave the consumer smiling and sharing their fun times with everyone on Facebook, Twitter, and all the social networking sites. Our real estate product is out there, deals to be made, so let us improve on our customer service, because the world can now see how we interact with the consumer..good..bad..or really ugly :(   :):):)