{"id":3492,"date":"2008-07-24T17:29:37","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T00:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3492"},"modified":"2008-07-24T17:29:37","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T00:29:37","slug":"the-epic-battle-ensues-realtor-vs-realtwhore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3492\/the-epic-battle-ensues-realtor-vs-realtwhore\/","title":{"rendered":"The Epic Battle Ensues: Realtor vs. Realtwhore"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not sure if you’ve visited TruliaVoices lately – there is an active thread currently running, at last count, 1,599 responses. I believe that is the longest running thread in Trulia’s fledgling history. The poster has since updated the question with more information qualifying the question due to the overwhelming number of responses, however, the basic question is, “Why should someone buy in this market?”<\/a><\/p>\n

When initially posted, the question was a legitimate query into an expert’s view as to why someone in the poster’s circumstances should buy in Chicago. Personally, I had a problem with the question – should the response be a multiple choice response?<\/p>\n

a. buy low, sell high
\nb. interest rates are at historically low levels
\nc. Jill is half as tall as Bill and 3\/4 tall as Sally
\nd. Vicodine
\ne. There is insufficent data to answer to this question<\/p>\n

I like “e” – and for the first time in almost 30 years, I can now fully appreciate the significance of that answer on the SATs. For those of you who found Vicodine to be the logical choice, may I suggest an intervention?<\/p>\n

Ok – so I’ve been following the thread from time to time, watching it morph from being a useful discussion to – lately – a discussion regarding the existence of nuclear weapons in Israel. Almost like a game of telephone gone bad. More disturbing to me however is how the question has evolved into a rhetorical question “WHY THE HELL <\/strong>would someone buy in this market? What are you, an idiot?”<\/p>\n

If you’re familiar with the TruliaVoices rating scheme, you understand that comments are rated by either a thumbs up or thumbs down. Honestly, I think there’s a conspiracy brewing. As you read the responses of the many realtors who answered the question, “There is no better time to buy!”, many of those responses were met with a burrage of thrumbs down. You can almost hear the resounding “BOO!”, “LOSER!” – you know, while you’re at, why don’t you just poke me and call me fat.<\/p>\n

On the Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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