{"id":10608,"date":"2009-12-18T16:55:37","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T23:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=10608"},"modified":"2009-12-18T16:55:10","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T23:55:10","slug":"unchained-melodies-real-estates-50-most-inconsequential-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/10608\/unchained-melodies-real-estates-50-most-inconsequential-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Unchained melodies: Real Estate’s 50 Most Inconsequential Online"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently I have been voted onto the Inman “News” list of Real Estate’s 50 Most Inconsequential Online<\/a>. I have no direct evidence of this, just a bunch of tweeted twaddle<\/a> that Tom Johnson turned me onto last night. Needless to say, I don’t plan to spend $80 to feed my already quite corpulent vanity.<\/p>\n

This is my third or fourth year on the receiving end of this evolving “honor,” and, with some exceptions, Inman’s list is comprised of a company I am less and less comfortable keeping. BloodhoundBlog has always been about the consumer for me, and about practitioners who know how to put the consumer first. Alas, the RE.net by now just looks like more of the same — more sleazoids looking for ways to sucker broke-ass agents into paying three bucks a pop for rotten eggs. Deadwood<\/em> was a fun TV show, but I don’t want my name soiled by the real estate equivalents of Al Swearengen.<\/p>\n

I do want to take a moment to apologize to Brad Inman, though. I have offered up what I thought was sound business advice to the man — coated, to be sure, in what might seem to be a bitter pill. But I had assumed that Inman was a grown-up, and, as a demi-billionaire, presumably capable of dealing with a certain amount of acerbic wit. It turns out though — as certain lyrical twitterbirds have pointed out to me — that Brad Inman is in fact an infantile encephalic retarded paraplegic with a harelip — and thus my jibes aimed at him were not sporting. This, at least, is the only conclusion one can draw from the plaintive tweeted bleatings about my criticisms of Big Bad Brad that have emerged from other names on Inman’s list of Real Estate’s 50 Most Inconsequential Online.<\/p>\n

Which is, just by itself, a good reason to say to hell with the whole magilla.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile I can think of only one tune so perfectly suited to the occasion, Big in Japan<\/em> by Tom Waits:<\/p>\n

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Apparently I have been voted onto the Inman “News” list of Real Estate’s 50 Most Inconsequential Online. I have no direct evidence of this, just a bunch of tweeted twaddle that Tom Johnson turned me onto last night. Needless to say, I don’t plan to spend $80 to feed my already quite corpulent vanity. 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