The Prom Queen of the Market
Whenever someone asks me a real estate question, my initial response is to direct them to a real estate agent: that's their specialty. Yes, I'm a mortgage guy, and I work among real estate agents all day in the same market, but I went to mortgage school, not real estate school. Assuming I know as much about real estate as an agent is like asking a dude with a degree in Elizabethan Literature to comment on a particular entry in the Urban Dictionary because the common factor is the English language. More likely than not, Elizabethan Literature guy is going to vomit up an answer that might go longer than the soliloquy by the Duke of Gloucester in Act 3 of “Henry VI”, but what you get out of that answer is only going to confuse you further. My point is that I’ve found this piece of advice to be particularly helpful: stayeth in thy lane. With that said, though, there are times when someone asks me a simple question about real estate that I feel comfortabl...