Inspired by my Hidden Gem in the Rain, Baltimore's Audrey Hoffman. and her Staging Girl comic strip. They say "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery", so consider my first few attempts at using a comic strip or cartoon to be a compliment, Audrey, although they don't hold a candle to yours.
My first effort wasn't very entertaining, but it did add some color to an otherwise dreary real estate market report. A few of you even commented that you liked it. Hopefully you weren't just saying that, because your encouragement lead to today's cartoon, representing today's real estate market with many home sellers trying to catch the same elusive buyer.
In fact, Crofton Maryland's absorption rate is 8 home sellers for every buyer; the numbers are much more dramatic for many other areas across our nation, and even our state and county. It really is like a pond with more people fishing than fish in the water! Life isn't very pretty for today's home sellers in this buyers' market, so I plan on using cartoons like this instead of photos in my upcoming series for home sellers - just to lighten things up a bit.
I know you're going to ask how I put this together, so let me refer you to Recipe for a Custom Graphic on Your Blog. Licenses to the images used here were purchased online (sources such as bigstockphoto.com, istockphoto.com, realestateclipart.com, stock.xchng.com, and others). All the other steps are in that post.
Stay tuned because a vertical version of this is probably going to be the cover-page for a series I'm working on titled, you guessed it, "Making Home Sellers Smile in 2008!"
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Margaret,
Too many fishermen...too few fish...finding the right 'bait'...!!! Thanks, Fran
Creative, clever and very appealing. Now you have me thinking about what I can do. You are always setting the bar a notch higher!