Post Election Notes

I am not really going to write about real estate today but just wanted to comment on the election and what I saw in Silver Spring this past Tuesday. Last year we went downtown to have dinner and noticed that you could vote early there. Since there were no lines, we just jumped in and voted. It was such a breeze that we decided we would go back downtown this year and vote early. To our surprise, the early voting line was very large and we decided to skip early voting since our own polling station in Hillandale has never had very large lines in the past. We had a nice dinner at Thai Derm and never gave early voting another thought.

However, on Tuesday when we went to vote, the line was incredibly long. Longer than any line I have ever seen at a polling place. (That covers a lot of elections) Well the wait was not too long and most people were in a very good mood so it was not much of a bother. It was nice to see everyone there. Apparently a lot of folks in our area thought that the issues were important enough for them to get out and vote this year. I was also pleased to see the amazing diversity of the people standing in line to vote. It seems like every ethnic and age group was well represented this year. Sometimes in the past our polling places was very quite and it seemed like the only people voting were elderly-but not this time. Anyways, it was great to see and made me feel a whole lot better about our political process.

As for real estate. With the elections behind us, look for a steadily improving market in 2013. There, you heard it here first.