Bubble Bloggers, Naysayer and Animal Rights Nuts
A comment on this post, from the perfectly named Naysayer:
I love how you real estate people and the homedebtors try to blackmail the rest of us with your ominous threats about how the return to sane housing prices will be bad for all of us. Bullpucky.
Let it crash. Let it crash HARD. The dotcom bubble burst […]
Standing athwart history, part 2.
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The business of real estate is changing, not because of a tough market but in spite of it. [When homes aren’t selling, sellers understandably gravitate toward high-volume high-profile listing agents, reinforcing the status quo.] It’s a process, but the internet is turning everything on its head: Buyers are savvy enough to do their own searches, […]
Sellers: How to do it Right
In this market it’s now axiomatic that, next to the right price, the most important step in whether or not a home will sell is its condition when listed. I wrote this nearly a year ago, and repeat it in various forms in every listing appointment:
Condition. Unless you’re selling a fixer – and have priced it […]
Official Name Change: RE Conversation
When I was working with department store buyers, the good ones were always the ones who knew their customers and bought accordingly; the bad ones were the ones that bought to their own taste and considered their customers stupid if they didn’t respond.
In the evolution of blogs it takes awhile to find out who readers […]
Glenn Kelman, Redfin and the Today Show; Short Version
Glenn Kelman is blessed with the genes of Harold Hill. After his coming out on Sixty Minutes - written about here, here and here - Kelman appeared last Friday on the Today Show to announce that he’d learned - scientifically! - that it indeed wasn’t a good idea to price a home too high. With limited […]
Caught!
Subtlety - discretion - doesn’t exist on the Web. In a two week period of WordPress cramming - coupled with desperate procrastination - I’ve been trying to figure a way to gracefully segue from a Blogger platform to this.
Four days ago I reached the conclusion: there is no graceful segue. Blogger - that would be Google […]
