{"id":1844,"date":"2007-08-23T10:30:55","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T17:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2007-08-23T10:30:54","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T17:30:54","slug":"closing-escrow-the-movie-at-last-some-competition-for-american-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1844\/closing-escrow-the-movie-at-last-some-competition-for-american-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing Escrow, The Movie: At last some competition for American Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0473015\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Closing Escrow, The Movie&#8221;<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/ent\/movies\/articles\/0824escrow0824.html\" target=\"_blank\">a mockumentary mocking Realtors<\/a>, opens tomorrow, <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.yahoo.com\/movie\/1809917405\/details\" target=\"_blank\">apparently in a very limited distribution<\/a>. Presumably this won&#8217;t stop your most pomo clients from asking you if you&#8217;ve seen it.<\/p>\n<p>The trailer:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dgFVppU7_Mc\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>As a rule, the funniest 90 seconds of a comedy will be in the trailer. If the trailer isn&#8217;t hysterical, enduring the movie will be agony. Press play to judge for yourself. <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/results?search_query=%22closing+escrow%22&#38;search=Search\" target=\"_blank\">Much more at YouTube.com<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate\" rel=\"tag\">real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Closing Escrow, The Movie&#8221;, a mockumentary mocking Realtors, opens tomorrow, apparently in a very limited distribution. Presumably this won&#8217;t stop your most pomo clients from asking you if you&#8217;ve seen it. The trailer: As a rule, the funniest 90 seconds of a comedy will be in the trailer. If the trailer isn&#8217;t hysterical, enduring the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[13,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-casual-friday","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":986,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/986\/ask-the-broker-attending-the-closing\/","url_meta":{"origin":1844,"position":0},"title":"Ask The Broker &#8212; Attending The Closing","author":"Jeff Brown","date":"February 3, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Fred asks: I can not be at the closing to sell my home, due to distance. 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