
OK, made you look. This year has been a little slower than the last few, and there are many reasons for that. However, there are even MORE reasons to give us hope for near-term improvements. There is so much positive news out there about the economy, the slowing of inflation, employment news . . . but, is anyone seeing it? Are you seeing it?
Now, I intentionally misled a little bit with my negative headline. I mean higher interest rates have slowed down our "on fire" Mobile/Baldwin real estate markets, but I'm not going to be negative here, just wondering . . . have you guys heard of "Negativity Bias"?
You see, us humans are hardwired to spend more time and focus on negative images and messages than neutral or positive ones. Weird, huh? It's true. In fact, in 2014 a European newspaper decided to make the change to positive-spin stories only. And in ONE day, th...