{"id":2,"date":"2006-06-29T14:48:50","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T21:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/943411385"},"modified":"2020-08-21T07:21:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T14:21:10","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you looking for a mission statement? Here&#8217;s a bold thrust in that general direction:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BloodhoundBlog is everything you wish were in <i>Realtor<\/i> magazine &#8212; but isn&#8217;t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s pithy but inadequate, because there&#8217;s more here already than <i>Realtor<\/i> magazine &#8212; or <i>The Specialist<\/i> &#8212; would ever take on. We have lenders to take us inside the mortgage industry. We have investment experts to brings us hard-core, hands-on advice. We have some of the best writers in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/REweblogs.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RE.net<\/a> &#8212; who produce some of the best reading in real estate writing, period, weblogged or printed.<\/p>\n<p>Okayfine. Here&#8217;s a second shot at mission-statement glory:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You will know when BloodhoundBlog has attained its goals when there is no more carney-barker jive to be found anywhere in real estate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s much better. That&#8217;s a dagger thrust into real estate&#8217;s heart of darkness, along with a nice expression of the garage-band attitude that got us here.<\/p>\n<p>But this might be our full and final mission statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>We &#8212; we here at BloodhoundBlog &#8212; are inventing Real Estate 2.0 &#8212; the confluence of Social Media Marketing, Direct Marketing and belly-to-belly selling. Other people at other places are involved, but we push the game so much farther, so much faster that, without us, there <em>is<\/em> no game &#8212; just more and more sleazoid vendors milking you with Inmanospheric pressure.<\/li>\n<li>We here at BloodhoundBlog are bringing the Good News of Real Estate 2.0 to the mostly unwired majority of real estate professionals.<\/li>\n<li>We here at BloodhoundBlog are going to set the standards for quality of care so high that the bums and the crooks will run away from real estate screaming, seeking relief from the awful burden of excellence.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We seek, each of us in our own way, to break every chain that binds real estate professionals.<\/p>\n<p><i><b>The back-story<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>BloodhoundBlog began as a Phoenix-area brokerage-oriented real estate weblog. We became a sort of hybrid group-blog when we added mega-producing Phoenix-area Realtor Russell Shaw. We stuck another paw in the water when we invited San Diego-based investment broker Jeff Brown to come play with us in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/index.php?s=dual+agency+smack-down&#038;sbutt=Go\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dual Agency Smack-Down<\/a>. And that went so well that we decided to grow BloodhoundBlog into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/about\/#more-2\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you looking for a mission statement? Here&#8217;s a bold thrust in that general direction: BloodhoundBlog is everything you wish were in Realtor magazine &#8212; but isn&#8217;t. That&#8217;s pithy but inadequate, because there&#8217;s more here already than Realtor magazine &#8212; or The Specialist &#8212; would ever take on. We have lenders to take us inside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post","no-featured-image"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1446,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/archives\/","url_meta":{"origin":2,"position":0},"title":"Archives","author":"Greg Swann","date":"May 18, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Real Estate&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Real Estate","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/real-estate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16634,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/16634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}