By Staci Caplan
2020 President
Santa Barbara Association of REALTORS®
There is a beautiful tree on a little culde-sac, planted in my name, providing shade and a picturesque frame for the home adjacent to where it grows. It was a gift from a local REALTOR to my parents when I was born, nearly fifty years ago, when they bought their first house.
A Chinese proverb says, “The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now.”