{"id":2012,"date":"2007-10-07T11:06:51","date_gmt":"2007-10-07T18:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2012"},"modified":"2007-10-07T11:06:51","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T18:06:51","slug":"show-me-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2012\/show-me-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Show Me the Numbers!"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is no question that I am one of the more dour of the Bloodhound gang; if we were the “seven dwarfs<\/a>” I’m laying decent odds that I get tagged with the “Grumpy” moniker.\u00a0 And while I may, on occasion, revel in astonishment at the self-inflicted pain that the industry has kindly laid at our feet via the past 5 years of transgressions; I am in no way a fan of the current havoc buffeting our industry.\u00a0 I don’t like seeing people losing their jobs, their homes, their future plans – it’s not a pretty sight.\u00a0 But one thing I do like, is honest, important inspection of real estate and mortgage; and Greg Swann’s recent post on “You’ll Lose Money if You Buy a House?\u00a0 Which House?<\/a>” reminded me of why I blog and what I believe we should all strive to achieve in one form or another through our blogging: cutting through the sound bites to get to the truth<\/strong>.
\nI believe that cavalier shibboleths are the primary cause of Realtor-focused ire on behalf of the disgruntled public.\u00a0 We’ve heard for too long that “Now is a great time to buy,” “Rates are dropping,” “It’s a buyer’s market,” and more that unfortunately to the everyday Joe just ring of hollow greed on the part of the real estate professional. \u00a0 And why do they ring of greed?\u00a0 It’s in the numbers stupid!\u00a0 It rings of greed because the main stream media is showing them graphs and charts and year-over-year figures that show real estate, as a whole, is a losing investment right now.\u00a0 They’re saturated with it.\u00a0 6 months ago ask someone what the Case-Shiller Home Price Index<\/a> was and you’d probably get a blank stare; ask today and you’ll probably hear about what the index is doing for that person’s MSA.\u00a0 This data dump has created a problem for real estate professionals.<\/p>\n

The consumer is being fed numbers by the media on one hand and weak aphorisms by the RE machine on the other.\u00a0 The numbers, regardless of their flaws will win; because numbers have authority and sayings do not.\u00a0 In Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is no question that I am one of the more dour of the Bloodhound gang; if we were the “seven dwarfs” I’m laying decent odds that I get tagged with the “Grumpy” moniker.\u00a0 And while I may, on occasion, revel in astonishment at the self-inflicted pain that the industry has kindly laid at our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"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-2012","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":251,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/251\/i-am-not-a-kludge\/","url_meta":{"origin":2012,"position":0},"title":"I am not a kludge . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"August 25, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Or am I...? 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