{"id":14699,"date":"2011-06-28T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=14699"},"modified":"2011-06-28T18:17:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T01:17:03","slug":"my-life-as-a-dog-five-years-of-bloodhoundblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14699\/my-life-as-a-dog-five-years-of-bloodhoundblog\/","title":{"rendered":"My life as a dog: Five years of BloodhoundBlog."},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow is the fifth anniversary of BloodhoundBlog. Here<\/a> is where we started, with a question that haunts me to this very day:<\/p>\n

If almost-as-good is free or nearly free, what is the market value of slightly-better?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At the time that we launched, Zillow, Trulia and Redfin were new kids on the block, and traditional Realtors were casting a wary eye over their shoulders. It was an interesting time to write about real estate, even though some of what I wrote in those days seems comically stoopid to me by now.<\/p>\n

(Caveat lector:<\/em> Our archives always<\/em> repay effort. I could wish that someone would comb through them and pull out the true gems — the category Enduring Interest is crying out for such a treatment. But even without that helpful handiwork, if you haven’t learned everything we have taught here, you could do worse than giving our posts over the past five years your regular attention.)<\/p>\n

I love this place, and I love the work we have done here, but I can’t revisit the history of BloodhoundBlog without some sadness — and sadness is an emotion I’ve wanted for my whole life to know nothing about. But it remains that my most important goal for this weblog — unchained Realtors — remains unfulfilled.<\/p>\n

Too much the contrary. Most of the people who were writing in the RE.net when BloodhoundBlog was young are on the slave-master side of the table by now, either as vendorsluts, Judas goats — or both. It’s not hard for me to deplore this outcome, but none of it would be possible without the active participation of the slaves, who line up to be yoked with an ox-like complacency. Despite all the opportunities technology affords us to break free of the brokers, the NAR, the Inmannequins, et infinitely cetera, there is something about most Realtors that seems to crave<\/em> dependency, subordination and the attendant exploitation.<\/p>\n

In response to this outcome, I must admonish myself with the words I have deployed on so many other people over the years: Cultivate indifference. For five years and more, we have been just that<\/em> close to smashing all the Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow is the fifth anniversary of BloodhoundBlog. Here is where we started, with a question that haunts me to this very day: If almost-as-good is free or nearly free, what is the market value of slightly-better? 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