{"id":4360,"date":"2008-09-12T10:15:51","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T17:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=4360"},"modified":"2008-09-12T10:13:17","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T17:13:17","slug":"notes-from-the-peanut-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/4360\/notes-from-the-peanut-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the Peanut Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been enjoying the fray caused by <a title=\"Why Come to Bloodhound Unchained\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=4328\" target=\"_blank\">Greg&#8217;s post Wednesday inviting one and all to Bloodhound Unchained in November<\/a>, as I am sure many of you have.\u00a0 In the post Greg responds to some personal attacks by referencing the success he has had with his ideas.\u00a0 Interestingly, the &#8220;Bloodhound Way&#8221; gets criticized, not on merit or content, but rather volume.\u00a0 Interesting logic that.\u00a0 Confusing volume with validity is common among common people.\u00a0 I used to work with a mortgage broker whose office spent $150,000 per month on lead purchases and generated many hundreds of thousands more in gross income.\u00a0 It was a poorly run, poorly executed operation that succeeded on sheer size and volume.\u00a0 Was this a valid way to do business?\u00a0 Numbers don&#8217;t lie.\u00a0 Does his success invalidate the one-man office who uses localism, innovation and advanced marketing skills?\u00a0 Hardly.\u00a0 (Side note: can you guess which office is still conducting business?)\u00a0 High volume is a measure of success&#8230; but not the tool I would use to discern quality or even future success.<\/p>\n<p>I have been following the Bloodhound Way for only a few months now.\u00a0 As I got back into Real Estate it struck me as eminently doable (after all, Greg and the other hounds here share their ideas freely) and obviously innovative.\u00a0 In today&#8217;s real estate industry I believe the motto is &#8220;Differentiate of Die&#8221;\u00a0 so innovative works for me.\u00a0 I posted my first effort at these ideas in <a title=\"Custom Signs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3267\" target=\"_blank\">Custom Signs and Brake Lights<\/a>.\u00a0 That listing was taken June 09, 2008.\u00a0 Since then I have taken two more listings.\u00a0 (I am chagrined to say I took no listings in August, but I do have 2 listings coming online in September).\u00a0 Suffice to say I am not a big volume hitter.\u00a0 As I said previously, I am getting back into active Real Estate after a prolonged absence running a mortgage division.\u00a0 Here are the stats:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2219 Eucalyptus SOLD 23 days on market<\/li>\n<li>2324 Donnington SOLD 17 days on market<\/li>\n<li>642 Glover SOLD 2 days on market<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That is roughly $1.3 million dollars and an average of 14 days on market.\u00a0 The absorption rate for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/4360\/notes-from-the-peanut-gallery\/#more-4360\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been enjoying the fray caused by Greg&#8217;s post Wednesday inviting one and all to Bloodhound Unchained in November, as I am sure many of you have.\u00a0 In the post Greg responds to some personal attacks by referencing the success he has had with his ideas.\u00a0 Interestingly, the &#8220;Bloodhound Way&#8221; gets criticized, not on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"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":[3,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2175,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2175\/psa-watch-the-debate-on-hr-3915-live\/","url_meta":{"origin":4360,"position":0},"title":"PSA: Watch the Debate on H.R. 3915 Live","author":"Morgan Brown","date":"November 6, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The debate is underway in the Financial Services Committee on The Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act of 2007 you can watch it live here. 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