{"id":2972,"date":"2008-04-15T00:09:34","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T07:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2972"},"modified":"2008-04-15T00:09:34","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T07:09:34","slug":"just-when-you-thought-it-couldnt-get-any-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2972\/just-when-you-thought-it-couldnt-get-any-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Just When You Thought It Couldn’t Get Any Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was in Oceanside, CA, Saturday afternoon.\u00a0 My daughter is in the cast of The Wizard of Oz at the Star Theater<\/a>.\u00a0 I watched her debut Friday night so I expected to while away Saturday at the beach or surfing the internet at Jitters Coffee Pub.<\/p>\n

An interesting sign caught my eye<\/a>.\u00a0 That sign and Mike Farmer’s proclamation that “real estate is dead<\/a>” (he read it everywhere) got my contrarian mind whirring.\u00a0 The mere appearance of this sign affirmed my reason to join the Dan Melson recovery camp<\/strike> Searchlight Crusade<\/a>.<\/p>\n

N.B- Dan’s one of the sharpest out here; it sucks that he’s in my backyard.<\/em><\/p>\n

Then, I read this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

…I’m just gonna recommend neg-am ARMs.\u00a0 Ask Mel Gibson why<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was in Oceanside, CA, Saturday afternoon.\u00a0 My daughter is in the cast of The Wizard of Oz at the Star Theater.\u00a0 I watched her debut Friday night so I expected to while away Saturday at the beach or surfing the internet at Jitters Coffee Pub. An interesting sign caught my eye.\u00a0 That sign and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casual-friday","category-group-therapy","no-featured-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16276,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/16276\/there-is-no-real-estate-inventory-problem-in-oceanside-ca\/","url_meta":{"origin":2972,"position":0},"title":"There is no real estate inventory problem in Oceanside, CA","author":"Brian Brady","date":"January 11, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"How often had you heard real estate agents complain about \"the inventory problem\" this past year?\u00a0 I used to think their complaints were farcical until these past 3-4 months.\u00a0 I have about a dozen pre-approved buyers out looking for homes.\u00a0 Interest rates are low and the foreclosures are getting snapped\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Flourishing"","block_context":{"text":"Flourishing","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/flourishing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2377,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2377\/closing-early\/","url_meta":{"origin":2972,"position":1},"title":"Closing Early?","author":"Russell Shaw","date":"December 15, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Saturday afternoon, about 2:30 I stopped by the Quiznos at Tatum & Thunderbird, it is in a little strip center right by my house. 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