If You Fail to Plan you are Planning to Fail with Waldo Hechavarria

Playing Chess, not Checkers | The Importance of Long Term Vision in buying, selling and health.

Long-term goals play a crucial role in personal and professional development. They provide a sense of direction, purpose, and focus, guiding our actions and decisions over an extended period.

Our goal for the David Siddons Group is to find the best investment for our clients. We genuinely care about our clients and want what’s best for them. Rather than chasing quick money, we’d rather build lasting relationships and have clients return to us or recommend us to others. Sometimes, it takes time to make a sale or we have to look at a bunch of properties before finding the right one. It’s like getting fit – you won’t see six-pack abs after one workout. It’s not about instant satisfaction, but about being persistent and working towards the ultimate goal of securing the best outcome for our clients.

Working with a Sense of Direction

Working hard with direction is the key to achieving meaningful and sustainable success. It involves setting clear goals and having a well-defined roadmap to reach them. Working hard without direction can lead to burnout and inefficiency while working smart with a clear direction allows you to maximize your efforts and achieve your desired outcomes. By combining hard work with strategic thinking, you can make significant strides toward your goals and create a fulfilling and purposeful journey.

Our main focus is to guide our clients towards making informed decisions. We don’t just write articles for the sake of it or provide reports filled with random numbers. We’re not in the business of showing random homes, hoping that something will catch their interest. Instead, we shed light on the market, present the facts and figures, and assist you in making a better choice.

When approaching sellers, I often inquire if they’d be interested in selling because I have a buyer for their home. Most of the time, they decline. However, it’s not because they don’t want to get top dollar for their property. The reason is usually that they haven’t found anything they like on the market, so they’re unsure where to move next. In such cases, I step in and provide a sense of direction by offering alternatives, such as off-market listings, that they may not have considered before.

Knowing How to Handle obstacles (like when your home does not sell immediately).

Just like with working out or going on a diet, many people start off with high hopes that eventually fade away after a few weeks. The same goes for many agents in the real estate game. They enthusiastically list a house, hoping for a quick sale, but then the excitement wears off when it doesn’t happen right away. Some might just let it sit on the market, but a good realtor knows better. They’ll switch up their strategy and come up with fresh ideas to promote the property.

Our goal is always the same as the client’s. We want to sell their property for a great price or help them find the best value property at the lowest cost. However, we need to find common ground on how to achieve that. Many people want to sell for top dollar but don’t want to invest in staging. Or they want to snag the best new property while still getting a bargain. It takes an experienced realtor to guide clients through the buying or selling process and find the right approach.

We’ve built our business on years of experience. We’ve analyzed and shown thousands of homes, and we talk to buyers and sellers every single day. That’s why we often hear people say that the commission check doesn’t seem to match the work involved. But let me tell you, you’re not paying for just that day’s work. You’re paying for my expertise in understanding the numbers, my negotiation skills honed over the years, the extensive off-market database I’ve built to show you hidden gems, and my ability to recognize quality finishes so I can honestly tell you whether a home is worth its price or not.