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President's Message

By Jonathan Nicholas ABR, CRB, CRS, GRI, Real Estate Business Magazine, July/August 2008

Summer Dreamin’

First off, can anyone tell me where the year has gone? For a year so fraught with market challenges, media bias and election jitters — one would think that the year would have just crept along. Just as it is not so with our perceptions thus far — the same frenzied pace applies to our business and its reality. For instance, many of us have not stopped for a moment along the way to ask ourselves, "Where is my business headed?" or "How does my best-laid business plan compare with reality?" One could safely assume that all of our distractions have kept us from looking into the future of our businesses and corresponding industry to strategize what’s on the horizon. What will 2009, 2010 and even 2015 look like, and how will the experience of the future impact what I’m doing today?

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