By the way, the grammar police in this comment string are quite entertaining!

You came off as well-spoken and well-put-together. It’s hard to be relaxed in the media spotlight, but you pulled it off. Nice job.

I would just put in an extra “fudge factor” in your offer

This makes me nervous. really

Actually, I believe the period goes inside, the quotation marks, “like so.”

You forgot to capitolize ‘beware’.

;)

“the comma is youre freind” and so is the apostrophe.

Not to mention a spelling/grammar checker. ;)

You’ll know it’s time to buy when your friends and family look at you like an idiot for wanting to do it, and the realtors won’t be saying anything about it because they’ve gone on to the next scam (commodity brokerages maybe?).

I predict that the Realtors are making a mistake running those “great time to buy” ads now when the tide is clearly turning. They will lose credibility, which is fundamental to their business model. Ordinary people will stop trusting them and begin looking in earnest at selling their homes using Internet tools.

Great job, Tim. You didn’t come off as a deranged nut-job, which on the radio is hard to do, so you can chock it up as a success.

The dead air as you pondered a prediction (short-term or long-term Q), made you sound thoughtful.

You hit all the high points and sounded very reasonable.

A couple minutes before you were on, there was some fly-by-night brokerage commercial offering 5.79 fixed APR. I thought it was a nice juxtaposition!

“That’s extremely speculative, and we just don’t think it’s reliable to look five years out,” said Russell Hokanson, Seattle-King County Association of Realtor

I watched the 5pm to 6pm segment of King 5 News and I watched the 6:30 to 7pm segment also. How did I miss it? I didn’t stay up for the 11pm showing.

The posted video clip doesn’t seem to work for me.

Don’t hold your breath. Even after a substantial and irrefutable decline the Realtor will just change the subject to “this is a great time to buy, prices won’t stay low forever” and “You’ll miss the opportunity to buy at the bottom if you wait”.

Sustained and expected price deflation is a salesman’s worst nightmare. It robs them of the ability to use urgency as a sales tool if they admit that the condition exists.

No, no… the important thing is that you buy now for the Long Term. If you buy for the Long Term, then it doesn’t matter that prices drop 30% over the next couple years. (Well, you might of been better off waiting, but that doesn’t put food on a Realtor’s table now, does it?)

As a Vocal Performance BA-holder speaking here, I think the variance could come from regional differences in how the consonant “L” is pronounced. There are two ways to pronounce an L, tongue pressing backward toward the back of the throat (which results in a more drawled “LLLL”), or the forward tip of the tongue lightly touching the roof of the mouth. When the forward motion ends, it can cause a brief unaccented vowel that sounds like “uh” (called a schwa).

And also, if people who usually speak with a drawled L hear an unfamiliar word spoken with a flipped L, then the phantom vowel can work its way into the common usage.

And that’s probably more than you ever wanted to know. ;)

And Tim, congrats on the newfound celebrity. My husband heard those Realtor ads on the radio this week talking about how “Selection has improved and the conditions are favorable.” So glad to hear that the local media is calling for a little bit of balance.

I’ve also heard “REALT-WHORE”.

Ever thought about running for office in Kenmore? I’d vote for ya!

-David

Also the Tim, you should put up a link to some of the great posts by you and deejayoh on jobs, immigration, and housing, given the BS spouted by the guy suggesting that the best time to buy is at the peak of a market just as it’s tanking.