Those crazy real estate professionals

[kpom]

[Lake Hills Renter]

Classic example of myopia. Her world is real estate and thus everything revolves around it, including the national economy and job market.

[deejayoh]

[rose-colored-coolaid]

I rarely check in on that blog (only when linked from here), but when did it become so vitriolic? Just looking through, it seems like there are only three remaining personalities: whiny broke-with-no-transactions agent, pissy refuses-to-elaborate-on-why-he's-so-smart-despite-being-so-wrong agent, and half-crazed non-sequitur-won't-give-a-straight-answer agent.

They use to be laughably myopic over there, but now they are just pathetic.

[redmondjp]

[perfectfire]

[Everett_Tom]

[uwp]

She's holding on to this "backbone of society" thing and won't let go.

Anyway, it seems the Seattle-PI RE blog is going to go out with a bang here in the last couple weeks. Tensions are high and the busy "professionals" who "thrive" in a "fun" down market seem to have plenty of time to banter back and forth with lowly renters.

[rose-colored-coolaid]

[kpom]

Renters spend lots of money, but they really don't generate very many jobs,

Actually, if you want to generate a lot of jobs locally, eat out a lot at fancy restaurants - restaurants are extremely labor intensive, and probably buy more local goods and services than just about any other industry. Burdening yourself with an expensive mortgage so that much of your income goes to far away banks and Wall Street does much less for the local economy.

Unfortunately, RE agents don't get to collect 6% of the cost of your restaurant meals...

[Alan]

[perfectfire]

[WestSideBilly]

[The Tim]

[tomtom]