I totally agree with this. I have often told buyers: "You get the home you are meant to have". I think that most seasoned real estate professionals would agree.
Written by Leonard Steinberg - Chief Evangelist
A few years ago I found a gorgeous building site that I'd wanted to purchase to build a dream vacation home. It was perfectly perched close to a wonderful hotel with a restaurant where I envisioned starting my days after a hike in the magnificent natural reserve that abutted it.
At the time I was in the midst of a lawsuit where I was owed a rather substantial amount of money, and I feared taking on the risk of buying raw land was too great. So I decided to 'wait and see', and lo and behold, someone else swooped in and bought this gorgeous piece of paradise while I was snoozing. I was rather devastated. Land in a location like this is rare, and I would never, ever be able to replicate it.
Flash forward about a year later: my lawsuit was settled, and of course, I went back to see what had happened to my dream building site. Sadly, a natural disaster had destroyed the land leaving it un-buildable! I cannot describe the relief I felt knowing that had I owned that land, I would have been dealing with a shattered dream ....and potentially large financial losses too. I hate to say it, but my hesitancy to buy was 'meant to happen.'
I have seen this (somewhat similar) scenario play out many times over the course of my 20-plus years in real estate. Often, the 'one that got away' for a buyer turns out to be a blessing. It is 99% of the time followed (maybe not immediately, but eventually) by a better property. This just recently happened for buyers of mine and even they reminded me of my words when they lost their 'dream home'......the day they found their REAL dream home a few months later.