Some realtors still hating on Seattle Bubble

[lamont]

"Seattle Bubble's entire raison d'être is to discourage, frighten and bully people."

I don't think anyone on this site is seriously on the fence and influenced by Seattle Bubble. I've been a housing market pessimist since 2003, despite all the harassment from my mother to invest in real estate because it was a sure thing (which really has to be way, way up there as a contrarian indicator). To the RE agents, however, everyone must want to own a home, so anyone who is skeptical on the idea of home ownership should be locked up in a mental institute because they are clearly unbalanced. So, they're hostile to having a website full of the people who otherwise should be in mental asylums talking to each other.

However, really, a better raison d'etre is to comfort ourselves that we were right while the rest of the world lost their mind thinking housing could appreciate 20% y-o-y without a day of reckoning.

It'd be nice to see this website turn positive when the markets finally turn positive so that it becomes a positive force in hooking people up with cheap real estate and making sales happen -- but right now the numbers just aren't there.

[deejayoh]

Wow. You got in the same room with her or is this photoshopped?


I thought she might rip your throat out and drink your blood

[perfectfire]

Does she really get several thousand hits a day? I just don't understand how anyone would want to read her tripe which basically ranges from "Oh man, I really really hate redfin!" to "Redfin totally sucks!". I think her post bashing SB has the most or nearly the most comments of any of her posts on the blog and most of the commentors were showing support for The Tim. I guess what I'm saying is that despite the article I hardly think 360Digest is a blog comparable to SB. Sounds like the business journal is really reaching to try to create some news.

[The Tim]

[uwp]

She needs a new laptop. Or is that a prop?

[perfectfire]

[Denny Retrograde]

I love that Marlow uses the word "irregardless" in the Puget Sound Business Journal article. That fits her perfectly.

[deejayoh]

[The Tim]

[Lake Hills Renter]

You could have at least tucked your shirt in, slacker.

[WestSideBilly]

Typical Seattle redneck passive aggressive bearded hippie. Do you bathe, Tim?

[cheapseats]

Posted on the PI today, any chance you could dust off the reporter cap?

Real estate forecasting 2009
Wondering if the market has reached bottom yet? Are you a buyer, seller or a holder? Whether your interest lies in commercial or residential, you may be interested in this real estate panel discussion sponsored by the Institute of Real Estate Management that is going on this week at a Qwest Field meeting room this Friday, Dec. 5th. They've changed from local experts giving lectures to an open panel discussion which promises to be an exciting and lively discussion about where we are headed in local real estate in 2009.
Keynote Speaker: David Legeay, SR VP, Key Bank
Guest Panelists:
Kemper Freeman, Kemper Development
Matthew Gardner, Gardner/Johnson LLC
Bart Brynestad, Panattoni Development
Thomas Parsons, Opus Northwest
J. Lennox Scott, John L. Scott Real Estate
Guest Moderator: James DeLisle, Univ of WA
Special Guest: Reggie Mullins, CPM. 2008 IREM National President.

[The Tim]

[uwp]

More on why Realtors(tm)(r) might be angry these days...
A coworker today told me she made 1/6 as much this year as she did in 2006 as an agent. She was a high performer in her former office. She took this current job to make ends meet.

Ouch. I might be a bit surly too.

[Charles Dean]

That's the boat most agents are in right now, present company included.