{"id":2119,"date":"2007-10-29T20:23:57","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T03:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2119"},"modified":"2007-10-29T21:35:23","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T04:35:23","slug":"for-some-reason-the-redfin-consumer-bill-of-rights-is-news-but-will-the-news-extend-to-exploring-real-reform-in-real-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2119\/for-some-reason-the-redfin-consumer-bill-of-rights-is-news-but-will-the-news-extend-to-exploring-real-reform-in-real-estate\/","title":{"rendered":"For some reason, the Redfin Consumer Bill of Rights is ‘news,’ but will the news extend to exploring real<\/I> reform in real estate?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Take a look at this map:<\/p>\n

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That’s the route from my home, in North Central Phoenix, to Johnson’s Ranch, a master-planned community in Queen Creek, AZ. The distance is 55 miles by the odometer, but travel time is more like two hours. It’s a brutal, awful trip, over two-lane roads for the last third of the ride, interrupted once a mile by four-way stop signs. In traffic, each one of those four-way stops could account for ten minutes of your travel time. An accident or an over-heated car could drive your trip time up to three hours or more.<\/p>\n

What can we say with absolute certainty about Queen Creek?<\/p>\n

How about this? It isn’t in Phoenix.<\/p>\n

Johnson’s Ranch isn’t even in the same county<\/i> as Phoenix.<\/p>\n

So why, when the New York Times<\/i> wanted to slime the Phoenix real estate market<\/a> — why would it do so from Queen Creek?<\/p>\n

How about because the real estate market in Queen Creek is astoundingly bad, and — unless you live here — you won’t know you’re being had.<\/p>\n

Don’t confuse yourself. Skyharbor Airport is eleven minutes from my house, right in the heart of town. No one could fly into Phoenix, then drive through mile after mile of cattle-scrubbed desert to Queen Creek, and manage to confuse the two. The purpose of the article was deception, the same kind of slimy deception “professional” journalism has been able to pull off forever — until now.<\/p>\n

Want proof? The Associated Press pulled the same stunt earlier this month<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m not being a pollyanna. The real estate market is rough right now in Phoenix. But it is a whole lot better than it is in Pinal county. Conflating the two is not an error of knowledge, it is a deliberate falsehood — just exactly as false as talking about single-family homes in New York selling for $350,000 — which I would imagine you could obtain 55 miles southwest of Times Square.<\/p>\n

In any case, I’m not talking about these particular lies but about the pattern of lying, about the pre-canned story lines mainstream journalists try to foist off as “news” — until very lately with no Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Take a look at this map: That’s the route from my home, in North Central Phoenix, to Johnson’s Ranch, a master-planned community in Queen Creek, AZ. The distance is 55 miles by the odometer, but travel time is more like two hours. 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