{"id":2872,"date":"2008-04-01T07:32:59","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T14:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2872"},"modified":"2008-04-01T07:32:59","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T14:32:59","slug":"where-were-you-when-the-real-estate-industry-morphed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2872\/where-were-you-when-the-real-estate-industry-morphed\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Were You When The Real Estate Industry Morphed?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Life is good — I’ll be going to the\u00a0Master’s next week. It’s been a few years since I’ve gone. A friend has some family connection with passes and if one of his business clients back out, he\u00a0gets me in. Business is picking up also. I just got a contract on one of my “flips” before I even finished and put it on the market, so now I’ll change hats and be a buyer for a while looking for another one.<\/p>\n

Leads are coming in on a regular basis, a mixture of strong leads, not so strong and weak. They are all possibilities. I’ve even had time to browse the web and see all the distinctions without much difference being made. As topics run thin we tend to make finer and finer\u00a0distinctions to prove….what? Superiority? Most likely. Hell, I always think I’m superior. Well, not really, I just like to think\u00a0I am\u00a0a lot of the time. In my better moments I realize I’m perpetually on a learning curve. Just as soon as I’m ready to crown myself as “Expert” I hear something from left field that sends me back to the drawing board, to tweak, re-think, adjust.<\/p>\n

Perhaps that’s the highest\u00a0value of this great learning environment called the internet, we’re contantly evolving and becoming better, never crowned for long as “Expert”. However, the more we learn the closer we get to being knowledgable enough to know what we don’t know and how to find the missing pieces.<\/p>\n

One thing that fires my imagination and pulls me into the good and the bad of the internet is the growing “conversation”. From Maine to Florida and from Georgia to Oregon, to Canada and overseas, people typing away, posting and responding, creating conversations that for certain specific interests like real estate become Great Conversations with\u00a0various ideas and concepts being\u00a0woven throughout. There’s no central authority managing the conversation, there’s no hierarchy of experts, only diverse voices growing, hopefully, not into a Tower of Babel but in different directions of movement and progress until the best ideas and concepts begin forming a great change for the better.<\/p>\n

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Life is good — I’ll be going to the\u00a0Master’s next week. It’s been a few years since I’ve gone. A friend has some family connection with passes and if one of his business clients back out, he\u00a0gets me in. Business is picking up also. 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