{"id":168,"date":"2006-08-03T17:14:38","date_gmt":"2006-08-04T00:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=168"},"modified":"2006-08-03T17:24:59","modified_gmt":"2006-08-04T00:24:59","slug":"is-the-blame-game-best-played-solitaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/168\/is-the-blame-game-best-played-solitaire\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Blame Game best played solitaire?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case you missed it yesterday, Jonathan J Miller from Matrix gives us a truly great mental image in his posting, The Housing Blame Game<\/a>. As a real estate professional, of course all of this has been on my mind. While all of our buyer clients have done very well in the Phoenix market, I’m aware that a big part of their success is that they bought without intending to flee the market if and when it changed — and they used good sense funding the houses they bought. Our sellers, too, have done pretty well in general. Certainly those who agreed to list their houses at the right price in the first place have achieved their goals. So, I admit that I have found myself guilty of playing the blame game a bit myself. With all the oracles out there writing articles that foretell the doom of the real estate market, I keep hearing a mental replay of FDR’s voice warning our nation in the depth of the Great Depression<\/i> that the “only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” In contrast, here we are living in a wonderfully prosperous nation, having just gone through a period where more people probably than ever were able to realize the dream of owning their own homes. And yet so many doomsayers are wringing their literary hands that things must<\/i> get worse for those homeowners, based on the simple fact that things have until just recently been so good!<\/p>\n

I am not unsympathetic to the fact that some of those new home-buyers or mover-uppers may have gotten in over their heads. Some may be going through life changes that create a need for them to move before they are able to stay in their new homes long enough for the new-home smell to have faded. But, in general, anyone who must<\/i> sell in this market who has owned his house for at least two years, will<\/i> be able to sell and make a handsome profit, as long as he didn’t make poor decisions regarding refinancing during the past year, and is not making Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case you missed it yesterday, Jonathan J Miller from Matrix gives us a truly great mental image in his posting, The Housing Blame Game. As a real estate professional, of course all of this has been on my mind. While all of our buyer clients have done very well in the Phoenix market, I’m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3363,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3363\/dont-learn-all-the-wrong-lessons-about-creative-mortgages\/","url_meta":{"origin":168,"position":0},"title":"Don’t learn all the wrong lessons about creative mortgages","author":"Greg Swann","date":"July 15, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This is my column for last week from the Arizona Republic (permanent link). \u00a0Don't learn all the wrong lessons about creative mortgages Arguably, the Phoenix real estate market is in a state of incipient recovery. 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