“People don’t like riots? Who knew?”I swear, you cannot make this stuff up. Seattle is being emptied by its riots, and Redfin notices by ostentatiously not noticing. As was noted in the comments here lately, this is by now arguably a matter of fraud – boosting their own home values as they too race away […]
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We’ve spent plenty of time trying to figure out what’s fair to pay Redfin agents. As part of that exercise, we analyzed the gross commissions for all Seattle-area (King County, to be precise) agents who closed at least one transaction over the past year (May 12, 2009 to May 11, 2010). The data surprised us, […]
Marlow Harris of 360Digest.com took these clips of Redfin’s Glenn Kelman as he spoke with us Thursday afternoon at Zillow.com headquarters in Seattle: Technorati Tags: BloodhoundBlog Unchained, disintermediation, real estate, real estate marketing, Redfin.com
I’ll be doing a different version of The Way of the Farmer in Seattle today. I know we won’t be able to do a lot of hands-on stuff, but still I’m keen to take on some practical, real-life marketing problems. Here’s my syllabus, for which I have about a zillion open tabs: Expired package, physical […]
I have been in Seattle in the late Summer, an idyllic time of year when it barely rains twenty inches a day and when the Banana Slugs start to think about snuggling up with you for warmth. I have been on Mount Rainier on Labor Day — playing in the snow. (People say “ray-near,” but […]
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Rhonda Porter, of Mortgage Master Service Corp. in Seattle, is speaking at BloodhoundBlog Unchained Seattle, on February 12, 2009. BloodhoundBlog readers see Rhonda commenting here and Rain City Guide readers know her as the resident mortgage guru. I know her to be one of the most savvy Loan2.0 practitioners; that’s why I chased her to […]
This is the front and back face of a door-hanger we have going out in high-equity neighborhoods starting January 3rd. In most of Phoenix, for now, listing is essentially limited to short sales and lender-owned homes, so most of our time this year will be devoted to buyers. But if this card — or variations […]
There is no privacy in a world governed by surly cops and Googlebots:
Redfin.com has news this midnight, but it’s the sort of thing I would normally ignore: It’s basically the kind of rah-rah-for-us stuff I leave for the vendor cheerleaders and the mainstream media. But: I gave Redfin a lot of grief last year when they made a similar announcement, so today I’ll give them a bit […]
Although probably more people know her from Rain City Guide, ARDELL’s Seattle Area Real Estate Blog is the home weblog of my intrepid oppenent in the Sellsius° 101 Blogoff Challenge. The site runs on the Realtown blogging system, owned by InternetCrusade, which gamely manages to make Blogger.com look good. It’s a travesty that such a […]
Sticks and stones might make a home, but money makes all the difference…I live in a world in sticks: Everywhere I look, I see domiciles in progress: Single-family, huge multi-family projects – and the strange hybrid of single-family apartment communities, tiny single-story houses packed cheek-by-jowl, like little Legos affixed to a concrete carpet. This is […]
“I’ll say this for people: No dog defends another dog’s food.”What will remain of the iBuyers, once the market turns? As noted long ago, iBuying as such is a very stupid idea. A flipper came up with it, and it may be that he didn’t really even get the math of flipping, he just started at […]
“Real estate is kids and dogs – and the redoubt that keeps them safe.”America is aghast at its own collapse, and this seems to have resulted in a dearth of fluffy real estate lies. But Redfin always comes through, today with a survey of recent movers’ attitudes about hot-button political issues. That alone seems stupid to […]
“Kibble is fodder. Meat is food!”I was talking with Brain Brady on Facebook about why Wagon Wheel is the perfect American song. I ended up here: As music, I think it is the quintessential American song. It retells the story of American diligence and redemption every eight bars – that’s what makes the rest of it […]
“What are rabbits for? Silly puppy. Rabbits are for dinner.”So here’s the funny part about Cleo’s instincts and the palpably tabula rasa state of her conscious awareness: Until this week, Miss Chioux did not know what rabbits are for. That’s a funny way of saying things, since it puts telos in the eye of the observer. […]