{"id":807,"date":"2006-12-25T15:40:14","date_gmt":"2006-12-25T22:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=807"},"modified":"2006-12-25T16:00:45","modified_gmt":"2006-12-25T23:00:45","slug":"lifes-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/807\/lifes-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Life’s Good"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the comment I found on my own blog Christmas morning:<\/p>\n

I can honestly say I wish there were fewer agents like you… Buyer beware, right?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Joy to the world! This from a gentleman whose own blog promotes his mission as sharing his vast research of the Pacific Beach, San Diego real estate market. Specifically, he says, “I plan to focus on listings where the seller is taking a loss”. His most recent post is titled “Another Notice of Default Filed in PB”. Lovely. Notice, I don’t provide a link, because I am finding this recent proliferation of to-hell-in-a-hand-basket reporting nothing more than childish, ambulance chasing tripe of which I have grown weary. Get a hobby, read a book, play with your children, but stop taking perverse pleasure in the misfortune of others. Grow up and stop blaming your <\/em>personal unrest on NAR, economists, real estate agents, mortgage lending practices and everything and everybody in between.<\/p>\n

His little holiday message to me was an epiphany of sorts, and in my typical around the block fashion, I will attempt to explain.<\/p>\n

It has been a long-standing tradition in our family to spend the week at our cabin in Lake Arrowhead. Steve and I have been fortunate to be able to offer our children many opportunities, but we are not blessed with a large extended family, the kind that you see in the warm and fuzzy Christmas movies. So each year we pack up Simon-the-world’s-dumbest-dog and the NSYNC Christmas CD and head out of Dodge. Each year has seemingly been better than the last; we look forward to the opportunity for sledding, hiking, entire “Jammie Days” and the annual 007 Days of Christmas. (The girls prefer Pierce Brosnan, while I am still partial to the Sean Connery Bond, for whatever it’s worth).<\/p>\n

So, with the greatest of expectations, we headed off for our little definition of family bliss as soon as school was out. Actually, we left a day late due to illness. Fluffy, the family feline, picked the morning of our departure to show the first serious symptoms of Something Is Very Wrong With The Cat Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the comment I found on my own blog Christmas morning: I can honestly say I wish there were fewer agents like you… Buyer beware, right? Joy to the world! This from a gentleman whose own blog promotes his mission as sharing his vast research of the Pacific Beach, San Diego real estate market. 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