{"id":299,"date":"2006-09-07T21:49:33","date_gmt":"2006-09-08T04:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=299"},"modified":"2006-09-07T22:57:58","modified_gmt":"2006-09-08T05:57:58","slug":"bed-time-real-estate-blog-bytes-a-hammer%e2%80%99s-a-great-tool-until-you-have-to-paint-a-wall-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/299\/bed-time-real-estate-blog-bytes-a-hammer%e2%80%99s-a-great-tool-until-you-have-to-paint-a-wall-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Bed-time real estate blog-bytes: &#8220;A hammer&#8217;s a great tool until you have to paint a wall, right?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reyestate.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/cruising-everyday-there-seems-to-be.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rey Estate: Make things simple!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kevinboer.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/thars-gold-in-them-thar-data-real.html\" target=\"_blank\">In The Trenches: There&#8217;s gold in them thar data!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spotlightre.com\/blog\/?p=49\" target=\"_blank\">The Property Monger: Scuse me while I Zillow the sky&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/truenorthrealty.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/zillow-pumps-up-values-with-no.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hamptons Real Estate Blog: Home prices are stable, but the Zestimates are surging.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rubbing elbows with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nubricks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nubricks<\/a> gets <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realcentralva.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Real Central VA<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/realestatetomato.typepad.com\/the_real_estate_tomato\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Real Estate Tomato<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/\" target=\"_blank\">BloodhoundBlog<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/timesonline.typepad.com\/overseas_property\/2006\/09\/new_ways_of_sel.html\" target=\"_blank\">The London Times Online.<\/a> And you thought <i>my<\/i> English was hard to read!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sellsiusrealestate.com\/?p=1921\" target=\"_blank\">Sellsius&deg; counters: Write it so they can read it&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truegotham.com\/archives\/a-brokers-job-a-reform-to-give-buyers-real-control.html\" target=\"_blank\">True Gotham: Give buyers real control.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truegotham.com\/archives\/a-brokers-job-the-demise-of-6-commissions.html\" target=\"_blank\">True Gotham again (blogrolled): &#8220;It&#8217;s a mistake to set up any system that denies there is expertise in real estate.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The RE.net has been itchingly acrawl with creepy stories about creative mortgages and imminent doom. I have no idea how many of those loans have already been refinanced, but, whether or not they have, there are a hell of a lot more happy mortgage stories than sad ones. <a href=\"http:\/\/bawldguy.wordpress.com\/2006\/08\/31\/negative-amortization-loans---the-end-of-civilization\/\" target=\"_blank\">Behind the Curtain (blogrolled for sheer effrontery) on negative-amortization loans: &#8220;A hammer&#8217;s a great tool until you have to paint a wall, right?&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raincityguide.com\/2006\/09\/06\/negotiating-the-buyer-agent-fee\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ardell says buyers and agents need to feel each other out before committing to each other.<\/a> I don&#8217;t hate this idea, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=296\" target=\"_blank\">provided that buyers remember to nail down the terms of their representation before they run out and fall in love with a house.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Bubbleboys:<\/i><\/b> This is what you&#8217;re looking for: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=295\" target=\"_blank\">The Lord of the Bubbleflies: Lean-looked prophet whispers fearful change, cultivating the worst impulses in otherwise decent people&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/blogging\" rel=\"tag\">blogging<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/disintermediation\" rel=\"tag\">disintermediation<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate\" rel=\"tag\">real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rey Estate: Make things simple! In The Trenches: There&#8217;s gold in them thar data! The Property Monger: Scuse me while I Zillow the sky&#8230; Hamptons Real Estate Blog: Home prices are stable, but the Zestimates are surging. Rubbing elbows with Nubricks gets Real Central VA, The Real Estate Tomato and BloodhoundBlog in The London Times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-disintermediation","8":"category-investment","9":"category-marketing","10":"category-real-estate","12":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":679,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/679\/content-piracy-on-the-renet\/","url_meta":{"origin":299,"position":0},"title":"Content piracy on the RE.net . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"November 25, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"An aggregator weblog called Real Estate Chatter is resyndicating the feeds of these 25 real estate weblogs:Altos Research Real Estate InsightsAppraisal ScoopCarnival of Real EstateMike's Corner Web 2.0 For Real Estate ProsNAR in the Newsrealestate.com.au News & ViewsOverseas Property Blog :: guide to international real estate investmentPressReal.comSeattle's Rain City Real\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2830,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2830\/while-the-national-real-estate-market-is-soft-google-pay-per-click-real-estate-advertising-still-going-strong\/","url_meta":{"origin":299,"position":1},"title":"While The National Real Estate Market Is Soft &#8211; Google Pay-Per-Click Real Estate Advertising Still Going Strong","author":"Doug Quance","date":"March 24, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Is Your Online Marketing Costing You Too Much? 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Of course, not everything can be neatly categorized, but the elucidation of categories can focus the mind, helping us to understand where certain weblogs might fit, which are hybrids of two\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":346,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/346\/how-i-feed-my-hungry-mind-my-opml-file\/","url_meta":{"origin":299,"position":3},"title":"How I feed my hungry mind: My OPML file . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 18, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"The other day I highlighted some real estate weblogs that I read every day, and, while that article is true, it's not the whole truth. 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