Ramesh Nyberg's Real Estate Blog

I met six really nice people last Sunday evening, but I kind of wish I had not.
We all met--literally--at the intersection of SW 136 St and Old Cutler Road, when the lady in front of me decided to take a left turn directly in front of an oncoming car. That car swerved, hit her, then hit me head on. I never really saw him coming, and I was only vaguely aware that she was turning off Old Cutler. And so that dark evening, just seconds after we showed my daughter the moon through the moonroof, headlights suddenly appeared directly in front of me.

There was no time to get out an "omigod". The collision was hellacious. There was that brief moment after the crash that I sat there, my head spinning, smelling the charge from the airbags, and hearing the hiss of fluids from the engine, wondering if this was the afterlife.
Amazingly, my wife and daughter and I were uninjured (unless you count my sore shoulder from the seatbelt and scrapes from the airbag). Even more amazing that none of the other people in the  other vehicles were hurt either.

I guess if you have to crash, do so right in your real estate farm area.

Every Thanksgiving from here on in there will be some reflection on that crash, not just because we survived it, but because Thanksgiving was truly horrific for another family.
Lisa Knight Mehrige, one of our Realtors, was murdered along with her twin sister and two other family members on Thanksgiving night, at a family gathering. Their brother was the killer, and as I write this is still at large.
Lisa was one of the nicest, sweetest people you'd ever want to work with, and her death has shaken our office deeply. She worked along with her mother, Carole.
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Business has been typically slow as most everyone turns their attention to the holidays.

More details to come after this weekend.