From the 13-15% interest rates of the early 1980's to the late 3.50 - 3.75%'s of 2012, from airports to hotels to hospitals to schools to job sites of all sorts and in many homes and apartments, from meeting a backhoe operator at 6 a.m. for a septic perk and probe to staying up the entire night before leaving for vacation drawing site plans for sewer permit application submissions during a building permit crisis, to meeting buyers and sellers at 11 p.m., the 47th hour of a 48 hour 1st right of refusal to get a home-selling contingency removed, to buying stove burners, finding obscure toilet parts, getting tricky paint colors matched, mowing a lawn in the dark in heels,  driving 30-some miles & walking a mountainous seemed -like -a -mile- long gravel driveway (in heels) to an obscure log cabin the buyer nixed in about five seconds, Nancy Williams has practiced real estate in central Pa.  The lowest priced home she sold was a $4,000 fixer upper, the most expensive several one- to- two million dollar properties, and everything in between.  The listing she thought she might never sell sold the first week ("It's 29 steps from my favorite bar", the buyer stated happily at settlement.