Wednesday, March 14, 2007

The process. Rethinking and overthinking. Charting, plotting, rewinding, agonizing, looking at the long view, the short view–pacing down to the nub–are things I do and enjoy doing, frankly, yet despite this there’s a large place reserved for hunches. Gut reactions, you know?

Or the gut buy, in the case of real estate, which is precisely what happened when I stepped into a townhouse today. The pile of listings and notes on my desk is informative, sure, but it didn’t compare to walking through the door and knowing that this is the one.