Every year in early March I look at our portfolio of properties and can make a pretty good guess how our year is going to turn out. If we have great homes going into the early selling season, we’re probably going to have a great year throughout, and vice versa.
Our inventory this year was hands down, the very best we’ve ever had. Every home we had in March in every single price point was outstanding. Well cared for, well priced, great areas, etc. I felt 100% sure it was going to be a great year and we were going to be making a lot of sellers happy. And then the Covid scare hit.
The months of March thru May were abysmal for us. It was scary slow. No calls, no showings, and not surprisingly, no offers. But we kept working through it. We continued going after great listings and preparing our properties for the market with the hopes the market would come back. We just didn’t know how long it would take.
We finally started to see some encouraging activity in the last week of May and first week of June. We were starting to get showings and with those, came offers. So when we hit 12 properties in title with a volume of about $12 million several weeks ago, I was ecstatic. After what we’d been through, I felt that was amazing. But nothing prepared me for what’s happened since then.
