{"id":3605,"date":"2008-07-29T19:59:47","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T02:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3605"},"modified":"2008-07-29T19:59:47","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T02:59:47","slug":"la-timesthe-1st-of-many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3605\/la-timesthe-1st-of-many\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Times&#8230;the 1st of many?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My buddy Jon Karlen writes on one of my blogs, RealEstateIndustryWatch. Today, he beat me to the punch and posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realestateindustrywatch.com\/la-times-has-published-its-last-sunday-real-estate-section\/\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yes it is true.<a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/laland\/2008\/07\/a-good-steady-m.html\"> The LA Times Sunday Real Estate Section is now gone<\/a>. Due to space constraints and budget cutbacks, it has printed it&#8217;s last issue. <\/p>\n<p>One has to wonder if this will not be the first of many to face a new reality (for them). The online real estate marketplace IS the real estate marketplace. How many more will go? How soon? How many will consolidate into other sections of the paper? Who knows.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My buddy Jon Karlen writes on one of my blogs, RealEstateIndustryWatch. Today, he beat me to the punch and posted this. Yes it is true. The LA Times Sunday Real Estate Section is now gone. Due to space constraints and budget cutbacks, it has printed it&#8217;s last issue. One has to wonder if this will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-marketing","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2958,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2958\/zillowcoms-mortgage-marketplace-brings-anonymous-apples-to-apples-mortgage-rate-quotes-to-consumers-free-consumer-leads-to-lenders\/","url_meta":{"origin":3605,"position":0},"title":"Zillow.com&#8217;s Mortgage Marketplace brings anonymous apples-to-apples mortgage rate quotes to consumers, free consumer leads to lenders","author":"Greg Swann","date":"April 13, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This is my column for this week from the Arizona Republic (permanent link): \u00a0Zillow.com's Mortgage Marketplace brings anonymous apples-to-apples mortgage rate quotes to consumers, free consumer leads to lenders Wouldn't it be great if you could get a broad array of mortgage quotes without having to make dozens of phone\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Disintermediation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Disintermediation","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/disintermediation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1725,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1725\/inman-connect-grand-poobahthon-stinton-freedom-stinks-worse-than-banks-in-real-estate-singer-the-only-trouble-with-the-mls-is-the-mls-and-the-agents-barton-i-have-visions-of-gesticulating-green-grocer\/","url_meta":{"origin":3605,"position":1},"title":"Inman Connect Grand Poobahthon: Stinton: &#8216;Freedom stinks worse than banks in real estate&#8217;; Singer: &#8216;The only trouble with the MLS is the MLS &#8212; and the agents&#8217;; Barton: &#8216;I have visions of gesticulating green-grocers, so that must be good for real estate&#8217;","author":"Greg Swann","date":"August 2, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I can't think of any argument against oral presentations better than the stuff that comes out of the mouths of the people making them. 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