Like many of our neighbors, partners, and clients, we understand your world has been turned upside down and you’re left with a lot of questions from the Coronavirus pandemic. Overnight, we have found ourselves homeschooling, reinventing the in-person aspects of our job, and juggling logistics of a complicated move ourselves. We may not have all the answers right now, but we have hope in each other.
As all of the change unfolded, first and foremost we took a deep breath to orient ourselves and focused on what we can control: health and safety of ourselves and family, a positive experience for our kids, projects we can manage ourselves at our houses, and adapting our work to serve our clients’ needs.
There are just a few things we know for absolute certain right now:
This pandemic impacts everyone, but it impacts everyone differently. This means everyone has different questions and needs different answers.
Circumstances will continue to change.
Our best support comes from collaboration with trusted partners.
Our greatest resource as we move forward has been conversations with people we trust: experienced agents, referral partners, family and friends, and our clients. We are addressing each problem one at a time, and finding solutions that work for each person.
In the coming weeks, we’re excited to collaborate with our partner agent, Lillian Denhardt, as we explore the pressing questions related to the real estate market. At the beginning of March, Lillian moved to a new house in a new neighborhood. She and her partner were in the middle of a major renovation when life was upended for everyone. She moved tenants into her former home on the day that the shelter-in-place order took effect, so she’s also adapting to landlording in this new landscape.
Through a series of blog posts, we’ll each bring our unique perspectives to explore how the pandemic impacts:
While we expect the world will continue to change around us, we will be looking for new ways to serve our clients and community when it does. Beyond all of the fear and discomfort of material loss and change, we are encouraged to see what our neighbors will sacrifice to protect each other. There are good people in this world, and we are lucky to know so many of them.
We are all stronger together, and we have hope.