{"id":14352,"date":"2011-03-28T14:51:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T21:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=14352"},"modified":"2011-03-29T10:53:36","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T17:53:36","slug":"slow-real-estate-market-im-not-going-to-take-it-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14352\/slow-real-estate-market-im-not-going-to-take-it-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow Real Estate Market: I’m not going to take it anymore!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t been posting much at Bloodhound lately, or really for awhile.\u00a0 Professionally, I did not make the progress last year I usually do.\u00a0 I went backwards and was simply distracted by other things.\u00a0 By this time last year, I was a very sick boy and it took until nearly Christmas to be back to having much energy or vitality.\u00a0 But, it wasn’t time wasted.\u00a0 From a personal standpoint, it confirmed what I already know, and that’s to just do the things that I want to do.\u00a0 Since that’s pretty much how I’ve always lived, I looked at my life and decided it was perfect.<\/p>\n

So, about January, I had the energy to get back to speed on business.\u00a0 My brokerage wasn’t doing what I wanted it to do.\u00a0 It wasn’t doing much at all.\u00a0 So, I decided to fix it.\u00a0 I did some Ryan Hartman type of web marketing and got the leads flowing again.\u00a0 In my market, a market that hasn’t seen over 150 homes sold annually since 2007, I was getting 2 to 5 real buyers per week asking to do business and sending me their contact information.\u00a0 That was a good start.<\/p>\n

But, that wasn’t enough.\u00a0 I’m the rural hound in this crowd.\u00a0 We have a group of brokers really happy with their own little MLS system that doesn’t track much data.\u00a0 It would look pretty 1992 to the rest of you.\u00a0 So, by digging into it and looking at what was actually selling, I noticed that foreclosure sales, bank owned and short sales, had gone from a handful of percentage of the market to at least 20%.\u00a0 Even more instructive, the number was growing quickly.<\/p>\n

While I had a bunch of buyers calling, I was having issues getting folks who could get loans and get deals done.\u00a0 By dipping my toe in marketing foreclosures I found that most all of them were looking to spend cash.\u00a0 And, in this resort market, most were wanting premium properties.\u00a0 Awesome!\u00a0 That solves the qualification problem<\/p>\n

So, I found out that lakechelanforeclosures.com and chelanforeclosures.com were available.\u00a0 In a matter of a few days I Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven’t been posting much at Bloodhound lately, or really for awhile.\u00a0 Professionally, I did not make the progress last year I usually do.\u00a0 I went backwards and was simply distracted by other things.\u00a0 By this time last year, I was a very sick boy and it took until nearly Christmas to be back to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"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":[185,212],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-bloodhound-seo","7":"category-flourishing","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4582,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/4582\/bloodhound-blog-radio-interviews-matt-padilla-author-of-chain-of-blame\/","url_meta":{"origin":14352,"position":0},"title":"Bloodhound Blog Radio Interviews Matt Padilla, author of Chain of Blame","author":"Brian Brady","date":"September 22, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"We interviewed Matt Padilla, author of Chain of Blame- How Wall Street Caused the Mortgage and Credit Crisis.\u00a0 This book, released in May, 2008, details a history of non-prime lending, the S&L crisis, securitization of mortgages, and what went wrong. 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