{"id":687,"date":"2006-11-25T22:25:46","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T05:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=687"},"modified":"2006-11-26T07:08:34","modified_gmt":"2006-11-26T14:08:34","slug":"nar-got-it-right-greg-is-correct-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/687\/nar-got-it-right-greg-is-correct-too\/","title":{"rendered":"NAR Got It Right & Greg is Correct Too"},"content":{"rendered":"

I stand corrected – what I wrote<\/a> was wrong. I said,<\/p>\n

“Some interesting stats (that NAR should<\/em> have evaluated but doesn’t dare – as it would look like they favored “traditional brokers” over the current crop of leeches)”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

2006 NAR President, Tom Stevens<\/a> did correctly evaluate that data and NAR did a wonderful job of it too. You can see it all here<\/a>, in an article by Blanche Evans <\/a>– who is, by far, the most well informed and relevant estate columnist around.<\/p>\n

Greg Swann wrote about the extremely nutty Keith<\/a> at Housing Panic<\/a> and I laughed out loud when I read it. Greg – in a different post – wrote about Ace Reporter, Catherine Reagor <\/a>– protesting her lack of relevant data analysis. He closed that post with:<\/p>\n

Why are newspapers dying? How about because they refuse to tell the whole truth…?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t believe that Catherine Reagor is refusing<\/em> to tell the whole truth – I believe that she can not correctly evaluate relative importances or has an editor who has gone WAY out of his or her way (for years) to always make her look bad. Has she ever written anything<\/u> that you (“you” here would be anyone reading this) thought, thinking to yourself, “Damn, that was good!”. Compare any random droppings from Blanche Evans to Catherine Reagor’s work and you will notice that Blanche tends to compare statistics so that after you read what she wrote, you are better informed – and now know more about the subject. But the quality of their real estate writing really isn’t true for everyone at the Arizona Republic, I’ve enjoyed reading Bob Golfen’s <\/a>car columns for years – and even if I didn’t like the car he was writing about, I liked reading what he had to say about it. A couple of really bright and decent people in the editorial area there are Richard de Uriate<\/a> and Doug MacEachern.<\/a> Also, I don’t believe that the Arizona Republic would have anything to gain by intentionally withholding “the truth” – about any subject.<\/p>\n

Giving any statistic without comparing it to SOMETHING RELEVANT tends to make the statement Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I stand corrected – what I wrote was wrong. I said, “Some interesting stats (that NAR should have evaluated but doesn’t dare – as it would look like they favored “traditional brokers” over the current crop of leeches)” 2006 NAR President, Tom Stevens did correctly evaluate that data and NAR did a wonderful job of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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":[3,2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-general","8":"category-real-estate","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1040,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1040\/hillary-clinton-and-rotarian-socialism-whats-wrong-with-the-nar\/","url_meta":{"origin":687,"position":0},"title":"Hillary Clinton and Rotarian Socialism: What’s wrong with the NAR?","author":"Greg Swann","date":"February 13, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Business Week's Hot Property wrote yesterday about the NAR's having gotten into bed with Hillary Clinton -- who is \"sponsoring a bill that bars commercial banks from hiring real estate brokers\/agents\" -- but that's just the tip of the iceberg. 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