{"id":860,"date":"2007-01-06T00:09:33","date_gmt":"2007-01-06T07:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=860"},"modified":"2007-01-06T00:33:03","modified_gmt":"2007-01-06T07:33:03","slug":"avoiding-a-close-shave-with-occams-razor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/860\/avoiding-a-close-shave-with-occams-razor\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding a close shave with Occam&#8217;s Razor . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/Gribble.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"6\"\/><b>Dale Gribble:<\/b> You see, what they <u><i>do<\/i><\/u> is, they send everyone from the ML<u><i>S<\/i><\/u> office home <u><i>ear<\/i><\/u>ly on Christmas <u><i>Eve<\/i><\/u>.<\/p>\n<p>Then they go in and edit <u><i>thou<\/i><\/u>sands of records.<\/p>\n<p>That makes things look <u><i>good<\/i><\/u> when they&#8217;re really <u><i>bad<\/i><\/u>, get it?<\/p>\n<p><u><i>Then<\/i><\/u> they call Twist and <u><i>fool<\/i><\/u> her with the false infor<u><i>ma<\/i><\/u>tion.<\/p>\n<p>Then they change all those thousands of records <u><i>back<\/i><\/u>, before anybody has a chance to <u><i>no<\/i><\/u>tice.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a sinister and diab<u><i>ol<\/i><\/u>ical plan, <u><i>fault<\/i><\/u>lessly exe<u><i>cu<\/i><\/u>ted every <u><i>year<\/i><\/u>!<\/p>\n<p>It might <u><i>sound<\/i><\/u> like a lot of trouble, but it&#8217;s <u><i>noth<\/i><\/u>ing compared to what they went through to <u><i>fake<\/i><\/u> the Zap<u><i>rud<\/i><\/u>er film!<br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/arizona\" rel=\"tag\">arizona<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/arizona real estate\" rel=\"tag\">arizona real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/blogging\" rel=\"tag\">blogging<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/phoenix\" rel=\"tag\">phoenix<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/phoenix real estate\" rel=\"tag\">phoenix real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dale Gribble: You see, what they do is, they send everyone from the MLS office home early on Christmas Eve. Then they go in and edit thousands of records. That makes things look good when they&#8217;re really bad, get it? Then they call Twist and fool her with the false information. Then they change all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-860","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":117,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/117\/if-its-a-heat-map-why-does-it-look-so-cool\/","url_meta":{"origin":860,"position":0},"title":"If it&#8217;s a heat map, why does it look so cool?","author":"Greg Swann","date":"July 21, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"All right, here's the deal with Zillow.com: I decide I'm going to buy you a pair of designer jeans, nothing but the best for you. 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