{"id":2407,"date":"2007-12-22T10:18:47","date_gmt":"2007-12-22T17:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2407"},"modified":"2007-12-22T12:10:42","modified_gmt":"2007-12-22T19:10:42","slug":"a-golden-rule-for-teri-lussier-and-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2407\/a-golden-rule-for-teri-lussier-and-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"A golden rule for Teri Lussier — and for you"},"content":{"rendered":"

My eighth grade civics teacher was a big bear of a man named Russell Hazelton. He was a part-time preacher for a hard-line fundamentalist sect, and he was as dapper a dresser as a big man can get to be on two small salaries. The very first day of class he was deliberately about 90 seconds late. He wanted for everyone to be in the room and settled down so he could stalk into the classroom, turn, look us all over with the two ablative lasers he had for eyes and then bellow, “First impressions… are lasting!”<\/i><\/p>\n

Was he wrong?<\/p>\n

I remember every detail of my first impression of Mr. Hazelton to this very day, 35 years later. He knew exactly what he had to do to start his relationship right with our class, to put everyone on notice that he was in charge. He turned out to be a great teacher, smart, funny, engaging. But no one ever even thought about challenging him for dominance. First impressions are lasting.<\/p>\n

Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bastiat<\/a> was a French economist. One of his most popular arguments concerns the seen and the unseen<\/a>. It is easy, of course, to notice what is seen, but you have to train your mind to take note of what could be<\/i> seen, but isn’t.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I stirred up a hornets nest<\/a>, and I told you in advance what you should expect to see in response:<\/p>\n

Regardless of what I say here or elsewhere, the incestuously cliquish part of the RE.net will insist that it is talking only to itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There were exceptions, thank goodness, but in the main the clique of big-name real estate webloggers behaved exactly as I expected them to, even though I deliberately built them a graceful exit:<\/p>\n

If you find you\u2019ve stepped in shit, admit it at once, clean up what you can and move on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is what is seen. What is unseen?<\/p>\n

That post got 350 hard clicks yesterday, this in addition to the hundreds of people who would have seen it by RSS and email subscription. Amazingly enough, no one wrote in to say, “I like<\/i> to be talked down to.” “I Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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