When You Wish Upon a Star
When you wish upon a star, you know that little ditty right? Well, for this to make sense, I am going to ask you to go back and read my last Mixed Plate. I spoke about being in Disney World with my family and losing a building we were under contract on. I wrote about how exciting it was that since it didn’t work out, we had something better on the horizon.
So we wished, in the most magical place on earth, according to two year olds and mickey t-shirt wearing adults alike. We hoped we would land our perfect building. We wished we would find a place to call home for ourselves and our agents. Cue the very next day after the contract ended, we were standing in line to build an electric car at one of Epcot’s newer rides. My husband looks at his apple watch through the sounds of children being entirely too hot and over stimulated; his eyes grow wider. He reaches in his pocket and shows me the screen of his phone and sure as shit, it was the agent on a building we loved back in August of 2022. The very next day after losing out on the previous building.
Earlier on, negotiations fizzled out and we thought it was gone. That day though, that day gave us hope. That hope painted a road of so many ups and downs and bazillion “little trees” that were painted by Bob Ross to throw us off course. That road also led us to closing on that building 359 days after it went on the market, and we saw it. Almost a full year. We had fallen in love with this property, negotiated back and forth until the fall season. Then it was silence. We got under contract on another building in the Crossroads, canceled said contract with Mickey by my side, and then got under contract again to close almost a full calendar year later.
Now we have a space for our agents to have offices. We have the ability to bring our cozy, warm disposition to fruition in a space to throw events, welcome clients, and most of all be the best version of ourselves. We have finally found our work home. For those of you who don’t know, Kansas City Realty is now housed in a 4,000 sqft building that is also attached to 10,000 more sqft for a local hidden gem named Panthers Place, a gym called Core Strong, a group of muralists called The Art Department, one of our favorite lenders LeaderOne Financial, and with more room to grow. For anyone who has known us or listened to us over the years, this is truly manifestation at its finest. We never settled for what wasn’t right. We fought for what we wanted and what would be the best for us long term. That fight and grind was filled with tears, laughter, stress, and excitement. Peyton, Dan and I said it was like a rollercoaster. One day we could get good news and the next we would plummet for the drop. Then click, click, click, up that rollercoaster again to see if we would ever finally land at the station to get off the ride.
Well, we are there now. We have moved on to a new adventure. A new ride. That has shown us in the last almost month of owning this building, we are in for some amazingly tough and beautiful times ahead. Nothing worth fighting for is easy. If it was, everyone would do it and have it. Until then, keep fighting and wishing on that star because I’ll be damned if we didn’t have Jiminy Cricket on our side for this one.