{"id":3134,"date":"2008-05-18T09:27:08","date_gmt":"2008-05-18T16:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3134"},"modified":"2008-05-18T09:27:08","modified_gmt":"2008-05-18T16:27:08","slug":"rare-and-well-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3134\/rare-and-well-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare AND well-done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know the entire RE.net will be focused like a laser on its future <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3129\">starting this evening<\/a> (in case you haven&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3128\">Heard<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>And we&#8217;re all truly wondering about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericbramlett.com\/blog\/trulia-awareness\/\">depth of Trulia&#8217;s mendacity<\/a> (several<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3059\"> layers deep<\/a> apparently).<\/p>\n<p>And who isn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3080\">speculating<\/a> about the story behind the story behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3067\">this story?<\/a> (I think it may soon be available on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1286\">DVD<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Just a word of caution before you find yourself all fired up by these relatively minor distractions. Remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chow.com\/stories\/11087\">what really matters.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know the entire RE.net will be focused like a laser on its future starting this evening (in case you haven&#8217;t Heard). And we&#8217;re all truly wondering about the depth of Trulia&#8217;s mendacity (several layers deep apparently). And who isn&#8217;t speculating about the story behind the story behind this story? (I think it may soon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"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":[62,7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-dirty-laundry","7":"category-enduring-interest","8":"category-realty-reality","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1761,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1761\/greg-plays-php-games-with-zeemaps-the-story-for-july-in-the-fq-story-historic-district-of-phoenix\/","url_meta":{"origin":3134,"position":0},"title":"Greg plays PHP games with ZeeMaps: The story for July in the F.Q. 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Here are two car stories to make the point:From Ubertor, Re\/MAX founder Dave Liniger buys a $1,000,000 HummerFrom The Garage Blog, Carroll Shelby's personal Cobra Supersnake sold for $5,000,000In both\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":4145,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/4145\/every-picture-tells-a-story-orphaned-lockboxes\/","url_meta":{"origin":3134,"position":4},"title":"Every picture tells a story: Orphaned lockboxes&#8230;","author":"Greg Swann","date":"August 28, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I see this all the time lately. The blue lockboxes are Supra boxes. They cost about $75 each. The vendor box and the front blue box belong to the current lister of the home. 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