{"id":18592,"date":"2021-11-11T06:04:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T13:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=18592"},"modified":"2021-11-11T06:04:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T13:04:18","slug":"overnight-news-zillow-ceo-rich-barton-the-worlds-richest-dipshit-real-estate-investor-leaves-ruin-as-his-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18592\/overnight-news-zillow-ceo-rich-barton-the-worlds-richest-dipshit-real-estate-investor-leaves-ruin-as-his-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight News: Zillow CEO Rich Barton, the world\u2019s richest dipshit real estate \u201cinvestor,\u201d leaves ruin as his\u00a0legacy."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cIf you won\u2019t pick up after your own dog \u2013 what does that make\u00a0you?\u201d<\/p><\/div>As previously dreaded, Zillow CEO Rich Barton is electing to leave devastation behind him, as he demonstrates to everyone’s dismay that he is by far the world’s worst real estate “investor.”<\/a><\/p>\n

“The Incumbent” said everything it takes to get an “investor” ejected from my car \u2013 the clueless things people insist on when they have huge dreams and zero experience. The stupidity of the “business plan” was obvious to everyone who has brokered real estate, but it was this \u2013 the risk of wrecking the real estate market \u2013 that turned me against the iBuying “idea.”<\/p>\n

Barton sold his bullshit as a benefit to consumers, of course: That’s how all bullshit gets sold. But his own high regard for his Presbytyrannical apple-polishing is betrayed by his ignominious exit from his “investments.”<\/p>\n

Zillow bought thousands of homes from owner-occupants that will now be turned into rental housing \u2013 gradually degrading every neighborhood Barton betrayed. They have more than enough money to sell the homes retail, as intended, but they are cutting and running because that’s just what preening sociopaths do.<\/p>\n

The Zestimate is the joke that dominates the conversation, but as anything other than a rapid-bankruptcy plan for inept agents, Zillow is a menace.<\/p>\n

In other news:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Chronicles:<\/strong> California Exodus.<\/a><\/p>\n

John Di Leo:<\/strong> Kyle Rittenhouse And The Streets Of Kenosha.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIf you won\u2019t pick up after your own dog \u2013 what does that make\u00a0you?\u201dAs previously dreaded, Zillow CEO Rich Barton is electing to leave devastation behind him, as he demonstrates to everyone’s dismay that he is by far the world’s worst real estate “investor.” “The Incumbent” said everything it takes to get an “investor” ejected […]<\/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":[29,26,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-group-therapy","7":"category-lending","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18606,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18606\/overnight-news-if-artificial-intelligence-had-any-brains-it-wouldnt-let-zillow-ceo-rich-barton-throw-it-under-the-bus-for-his-absurd-deliberately-uninformed-inve\/","url_meta":{"origin":18592,"position":0},"title":"Overnight News: If \u201cArtificial Intelligence\u201d had any brains, it wouldn\u2019t let Zillow CEO Rich Barton throw it under the bus for his absurd, deliberately-uninformed \u201cinvestment\u201d assumptions.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"November 18, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are three facts about intelligence: Your dog is not intelligent, nor is any entity lacking a properly-functioning thinking brain. \"Artificial Intelligence\" is quite a bit less intelligent than your dog \u2013 and it is never capable of even the most basic forms of awareness, understood biologically. 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