A few months ago, some clients called to ask if a new for sale sign could be installed at their house. I'd had the property listed through the months of November and December and the winds had torn the sign from the post on more than one occassion (holes ripped right through the top of the metal sign) and the sign had a serious case of road rash.

I had an extra sign in my trunk so drove out to Auburn install it that afternoon. As I looked at the rough, beat up sign, I couldn't help but think it was the perfect metaphor for the real estate market at the time.

Colleen Fischesser Listing and Selling South King County

Bent, battered, not very pretty, but still standing!