Here are a pair of noteworthy comments from yesterday’s discussion about large price haircuts. photo by Flickr user allyaubry By Guest: 1. What’s up with the sudden popularity of phrases regarding debt and suffering that include the word “haircut.” 2. A “FUN” property? What exactly is “fun” about this situation. How is an inflated “boom-era”…
Tag: doom and gloom
I Got Your Doom and Gloom Right Here
King 5 News ran a great little piece yesterday that demonstrates just how ridiculous it is to call falling home prices “doom and gloom.” The flat real estate market has been a source of concern for many. But for some charities like Habitat for Humanity, it’s providing a long awaited opportunity to advance their cause….
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Local Media Roundup: Doom and Gloom, Etc.
We’ve been focusing more on original content here lately, which means that as articles crop up in other local news sources, we haven’t been posting every single one. Of course, there are some interesting things being said about the local housing market in other news sources, so it’s good to touch base with them once…
Doom and Gloom, Stereotypes, and Predictions
I’d like to take a little time to address a few things that keep coming up here and elsewhere in online real estate conversations that are starting to bug me. So that’s what I’m going to do. Doom and Gloom Apocalypse Fun Time First up is the incessant refrain that anyone predicting a decline in…