{"id":10101,"date":"2009-10-17T07:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=10101"},"modified":"2009-10-16T07:36:40","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T14:36:40","slug":"a-look-back-what-has-changed-and-what-hasnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/10101\/a-look-back-what-has-changed-and-what-hasnt\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look Back &#8211; What Has Changed and What Hasn&#8217;t&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In July of 2008, I wrote a piece as a guest post on Paul Kedrosky\u2019s site, <a href=\"http:\/\/paul.kedrosky.com\/archives\/2008\/07\/23\/the_top_7_thing.html\" target=\"_blank\">Infectious Greed<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I called that piece <a href=\"http:\/\/paul.kedrosky.com\/archives\/2008\/07\/23\/the_top_7_thing.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Top 7 Things Every Home Buyer Should Know<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp; The piece got  a lot of \u201cpress\u201d and actually got me interviewed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/21\/realestate\/21mort.html?_r=1&amp;8mon&amp;emc=yma2&amp;oref=slogin\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I was talking with the reporter who I\u2019ve  gotten to know at the New York Times about a month ago and we realized that it  was almost exactly a year since he had ran the piece, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/21\/realestate\/21mort.html?_r=1&amp;8mon&amp;emc=yma2&amp;oref=slogin\" target=\"_blank\">Considering the 7 Year Plan<\/a>.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; He made a comment at that  point, \u201cIt would be interesting to see what, if anything, has changed over the  last year in your opinion of what a home buyer needs to think about.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I  agreed and decided at that point to do that.<\/p>\n<p>So this is the introduction to what will be a 7 part series over the course  of the next week or so.&nbsp;&nbsp; I\u2019m going to take each item, one by one, and look at  what my view was in July of last year and then factoring in what I think has or  has not changed over the last 15 months. <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a hint for you \u2013 out of the 7 parts, I think that we\u2019re going to find  that at least 3 or 4 of them have changed substantially.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll have the first one up in a day or two.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for listening in\/reading what my thoughts are\u2026..<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tom Vanderwell<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/7%20Things%20Home%20Buyers%20Should%20Know\" rel=\"tag\">7 Things Home Buyers Should Know<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=5bd03a2f-7fb2-84f6-bdcd-1bbbb3d56627\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July of 2008, I wrote a piece as a guest post on Paul Kedrosky\u2019s site, Infectious Greed.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I called that piece The Top 7 Things Every Home Buyer Should Know.&nbsp;&nbsp; The piece got a lot of \u201cpress\u201d and actually got me interviewed by the New York Times.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I was talking with the reporter who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,29,26,5],"tags":[403,405,404],"class_list":{"0":"post-10101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-dirty-laundry","7":"category-group-therapy","8":"category-lending","9":"category-real-estate","10":"tag-home-buyers","11":"tag-new-york-times","12":"tag-paul-kedrosky","14":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4464,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/4464\/no-sharks-allowed-the-predictable-consequences-of-government-regulation-of-the-financial-markets\/","url_meta":{"origin":10101,"position":0},"title":"No sharks allowed! 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