{"id":2127,"date":"2007-10-31T09:15:17","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T16:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2127"},"modified":"2007-10-31T09:22:43","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T16:22:43","slug":"telling-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2127\/telling-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"Telling Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Censorship has been on my mind. Not\u00a0the definitive, prescribed and documented “heavy hand of authority”\u00a0variety, and not the\u00a0“thou shalt not be mean to NAR” Memorandum of Paranoia allegedly being\u00a0unveiled in November, but the worst and most pervasive kind.<\/p>\n

What I find more concerning and most stifling is the triple-secret<\/em> censorship. Unless you are a Broker Owner, with no one to answer to but your own inner voice of reason,\u00a0you are being judged by what\u00a0you write. Every word I click onto the page is subject to scrutiny, and I must choose each oh-so carefully while perched atop my podium of egg shells. Sometimes I fail and trash the whole dozen. Independent contractor? Not entirely independent, I’m afraid.<\/p>\n

Many topics are safe. Statistics and trend analyses are the poster children of the\u00a0benign blog entry. Pictures of pretty buildings, diatribes on transactional intricacies, and advice on “how to pick an agent” are all fair game. It’s black or it’s white, and no one can make a compelling argument to the contrary. Fielding questions on contracts leads us closer to the mine field, but if we preface each thought that hits the page with “I am not an attorney,” we mitigate the risk of having to rephrase our post for His Honor.<\/p>\n

We can talk about technology. It either is or it isn’t, and my broker is probably not going to hunt me down like a dog for taking a bold stand challenging the site design of Terabitz<\/a>, nor will he give much thought to my in-depth expose on the accuracy of the Zestimate<\/a>. While I am cautiously treading water with my choice of topics, however, I am risking either offending the reader with the triviality of my content or boring him senseless.<\/p>\n

This<\/em> blog scares me, because I think it scares my broker. The tone is sometimes caustic, mostly serious, and always challenging of the status quo. I enjoy satire,\u00a0and I like to laugh. Many things make me laugh, and so many of those are related to common, every day life, the life unrelated to the job. I weave those stories into my writing, too often I suppose, Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 Censorship has been on my mind. Not\u00a0the definitive, prescribed and documented “heavy hand of authority”\u00a0variety, and not the\u00a0“thou shalt not be mean to NAR” Memorandum of Paranoia allegedly being\u00a0unveiled in November, but the worst and most pervasive kind. What I find more concerning and most stifling is the triple-secret censorship. 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