January is my least favorite month. It’s like 31 Mondays in a row. New Year, new resolutions, new game plan. Problem is, the weather along Lake Erie in Northern Ohio typically doesn’t cooperate with all my best and newly-laid plans. The air is frigid, the skies cloudy, the landscape dreary. The hardest part for me is that what stretches ahead is at least a couple months more of the same.
The first two weeks in January are typically a pretty slow time of year for real estate activity. Although there are buyers out there wanting to get a jump on the masses, very few people want to think of putting their house on the market when they’ve just put away their Christmas decorations. My argument about breaking from the herd of traditional sellers and listing your home now when there is so much less competition instead of waiting until spring, is subject for my next blog.
View from our room at Negril Escape
Today as I watch the snow fall outside, I want to talk about the value of taking a tropical vacation in early January. Jamaica in January is a great getaway. Even though it’s officially high season, every hotel I checked had vacancies and they were willing to offer discounts on their high season prices. The sun shone brightly every day. The temperatures hovered between 75-85 degrees. The water temperature was 80 degrees. Continue reading
Lake Erie Views 