Sometimes the light shines Out

windowI had a meeting today with a family who is preparing to sell the home their parents owned for a number of years. There have been times over the years I have experienced as I did today, the sense of the home having been a sanctuary for those who lived there. It wasn’t so much the style or furniture or even the windows, but rather just the “feel” of the home. I remember long ago listing and selling a home for a dear elderly lady whose home was as I speak. She was very well read, had walls filled with books on nearly every subject, her furniture was expensive yet not ostentatious.

Everything in the home had a purpose for its placement. Having become well acquainted with her, I found her a real woman of the earth. She would today be considered a dyed-in-the-wool environmentalist. She passed along books for me to read that I had never even heard of and enjoyed each one of them. She spoke of her life as a journey and never seemed to talk about any times that were hard. Because of her age, her daughter who was equally a woman of the earth, managed to get her mother to agree to move to the city where she lived which was in a much more moderate temperature zone. There are times even now when I think of her. I have come to the conclusion that with most homes the sun radiates inward, but there are those few where there is an outward radiation of sunshine.

Sunshine in a sense that those living there are radiating goodness. So whenever you drive past a home, see if you can any “light” shining outward. You may manage to catch a glimpse of yet another sanctuary.

Joe Chodur

About the Author | Joe Chodur

First of all....Joe Chodur really doesn't like talking about himself but this is what we have found out about him. Joe Chodur began his real estate career in 1981 during the height of the savings and loan crisis. It's hard to imagine how difficult it was to sell homes when…

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