Rain!

Funny thing about rain when you've lived in a desert and southern California much of your adult life...you suddenly move to a rainy place and it's fascinating, but suddenly it becomes 'old'! We are on day two of rain, with another day left to go and I'm over it!...but a part of me, perhaps the 'little girl' in me is loving it!

I began this blog with a very capsuled introduction and then mentioned moving BACK to California (I generally move back to either California or Arizona it seems!) only to be put on a hit list by the EVIL ONE!

Having lost that contract was like having all the air sucked out of you and then a semi running over you, it was absolutely horrible...but then I'm a survivor and someone who moves forward quickly. Of course I just figured when one contract ends, another will begin quickly enough, so I breathed deep and worked to make THAT happen...it didn't, not for a month and as each month dragged on it became a year...

Yep, I applied for anything that was legal...waitressing, bartending, working in the fields, temporary. I was too qualified (yes, I even 'dummy downed' my resume), too old, a woman, etc. Those of you in California that have gone through this, or are going through this can feel my pain and anxiety.

So the next thing I did was re-activate my real estate license and move forward in that arena...talk about unethical and corrupt! This industry went from one extreme, got their hands slapped and then learned new ways to do the same thing they got 'slapped' for, only to do it better figuring they wouldn't get caught! I sold three properties, worked with each buyer a long time, worked HARD...100s of hours each. Then things fell to hell, bad client, lender who was corrupt and hiding things and whom I REFUSED to bail out...all of this cost my reputation and most of my commission being stolen by my Broker.

Now I am feeling a tad postal....can't get legal work, put 100s of hours and all my eggs into that real estate market, only to have a large percentage of commission due me taken (yep, Broker went to Alaska, China and various other trips...hope he had a great time!) and it was like I couldn't breath.

Oh, guess I didn't mention that I do have a B.A. in Business Management. I have a certificate from the University of California as a Paralegal.

So the saga continues.....