The Land is for All to Honor

I am getting ready for a new day in the real estate world. I have checked trulia.com to see the wonder mapping feature offered where you can see homes for sale on the map, and recently sold homes. I grew up with maps, and am attracted to good map features. That is why I like Google Maps, and Google Earth so much, and use them as regular tools in my real estate practice, and research.

Beginning my day on the right foot, I am drawn to the first line of the REALTOR Code of Ethics in which it says, “Under all is the land.” I love pondering that statement. It takes me back to the early aboriginal cultures in which the land was sacred, and belonged to all, not to any one person. Our culture is different in that persons get to claim exclusionary rights to pieces of the land. However, take away our culture, and societal beliefs, and we will be back to the land as belonging to all and nobody claiming ownership of a piece of it. The land will always be there no matter what culture or cultures dominate. Truly, all experiences the land, those who have, and those who have not. Everyone relates to the land in some degree and in some way.

Now, comes honor. The Creator provides the land under all. We as the Creator’s children need to wisely use the land, honor it, rever it, care for it. Think of the Boy Scout fundamental of “Leave No Trace.” We learn to pick up our trash at the campsite, make sure the campfire remains are buried, and we leave nature as we found it. We can apply the teaching of leave no trace in our neighborhoods, cities, and elsewhere. We can keep the land cleaner, richer, and make better use of it that will benefit all under the land. We can do this as citizens, and as communities. Maybe we need more parks, more green, more trees. Maybe we can clean up the commuity we live in, and weed out the garbage, the waste, the plastic. Maybe we can recycle more and reuse what has been use to exploit less the earth around us. We can do this in our own backyard.

As real estate professionals, we have a moral obligation to help protect the land, and champion it’s highest and best use. We can set the example in our own lives. I try to make it a habit to recycle, keep my yard clean, grow some vegetables for a healthier diet, with food organically produced from the land, and learn more about a greener lifestyle. I have goals to use other forms of energy for my home someday, or support community efforts towards alternative, healthier energy sources. I support community self-sufficiency. This goes back to the fact the real estate is local, the land is local in whatever spot on earth one may find her/himself.

Now, I am going to sip some more mate, and see what new happenings are taking place in real estate.