I started by explaining in Everybody put your heads down on your desk… how we got to this ugly spot in the road where we see the paths of:
- Government intervention in loans
or
- A rush of foreclosures
In this installment,
Tag Archives: business of real estate
Sometimes doing the right thing hurts.
- Sunday, 23 December 2007 22:35
- Written by Lane Bailey
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Everybody put your heads on the desk…
- Thursday, 20 December 2007 14:35
- Written by Lane Bailey
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Do you remember those words from grade school? The big kid from the back of the class shot a spitball at the teacher, and so everyone got the same punishment. There were 29 kids in the class that didn’t do anything, but they still got the same treatment. What’s worse is that the kid that caused the trouble didn’t suffer any more than the kids that didn’t.
That was simply because it was
Hockey and real estate…
- Tuesday, 18 December 2007 23:55
- Written by Lane Bailey
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Back to the stretches…
We just got back from the Thrashers/Lightning game. The Thrashers were on fire (for a change) and Tampa Bay 6-2. Everything worked. Passes connected. Bounces went the right way. The calls were pretty good. For the Thrashers, anyway…
Let’s blame the media… or not.
- Monday, 17 December 2007 20:35
- Written by Lane Bailey
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This is not inspired by Ken “not the meteorologist” Cook, but I did read his post a little earlier, Did The Media Cause This, Fuel This, or Just Report It? That said, I did mention this post in the comments there, because they are related… Great minds think alike… ours do too.
MLS? Zillow? Trulia?
- Thursday, 13 December 2007 12:15
- Written by Lane Bailey
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I ran across a blog post by Jay Thompson regarding a story in the Wall Street Journal about on-line home searches. He noted that in his area the WSJ had it wrong. He researched the numbers for the local MLS, Trulia and Zillow. His findings were that Zillow only showed about