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The Tim on King 5 News Tonight?

The_TimThe_Tim
edited November 2007 in Seattle Real Estate
I just got off the phone with reporter Kim Holcomb with King 5 News. They want to interview me tonight for a story on the housing market. They're also going down to Bellevue to interview a representative for the REALTORs.

Any advice? I figure I better at least shave :^)

Comments

  • acurawsuacurawsu
    Do it!
    what a great oppertunity.

    my $0.02
  • TJ_98370TJ_98370
    Don't say anything about pink ponies. I don't think the viewers will understand.

    Overall message - Now is NOT the time to buy! We are at the peak of a market trend!

    You'll do great!
  • bilirubenbiliruben
    Ride in on a pink pony. ;)

    Just tell it like it is. Hit the highlights.

    Declines due to macro-effects that have little to do with the local economy.

    Record Inventory. Plummeting sales.

    Spring's going to be a blood-bathe.

    Price/Rent.

    Price/Income.

    And wear a silly hat.
  • TJ_98370TJ_98370
    Okay biliruben, now we are giving conflicting pink pony advice. That's not good.
  • rose-colored-coolaidrose-colored-coolaid
    Very cool!

    I would recommend focusing on the human interest side a little bit. People on this site are interested in cold hard facts, but that's not what moves most people. Use facts followed by touching stories, and have each point you want to make ready on a 3x5 card before the interview. That way if they hit you with questions out of the order you expected, you can think quickly on your feet.

    For instance, when mentioning rising inventory, throw in information about how real people are having trouble selling. I personally know people who have not put their house on sale this autumn for fear it wouldn't sell. Likewise, I know people who have lost their house to foreclosure because they couldn't sell it fast enough.

    Good luck!
  • AlanAlan
    Maybe mention that the rate cuts intended to save the housing market have caused the US dollar to tank. We lost 8% against the Canadian dollar just in the last month.

    http://www.exchange-rates.org/history/CAD/USD/G/30
  • CliveLCliveL
    If possible, ask them for a recording so that it can be posted on this site.
  • perfectfireperfectfire
    Make sure to portray "bubbleheads" not as vultures hoping for a horrible crash, but as normal everyday people that want to get a reasonable loan to buy a reasonable house, but can't due to the bubble. I'm sick of being portrayed by realtors as a terrible person simply because I cannot afford a house.
  • The_TimThe_Tim
    Had the interview. I think it went well. We'll see how it ends up after the editors get done with it. Watch KONG at 10:00 or KING at 11:00 tonight.
  • deejayohdeejayoh
    Ah, we can say "I knew him when"

    congrats. I'll be tuning in.
  • laxtosnocolaxtosnoco
    I'll definitely be watching. Any guesses what they're going to call you? In other words, your name will pop up on the screen and it will say what?

    The Tim
    Local Real Estate Blogger

    or maybe

    The Tim
    Skeptic

    or maybe

    The Tim
    Dirty Renter
  • pumpkinpumpkin
    I just saw you on KONG 16, and it seemed that their narration and editing was saying "Tim couldn't buy before so he started this blog, and he's still waiting to buy." The piece was quite slanted towards the "bitter renters are celebrating" rhetoric. It's nothing you said, but rather the way they packaged it up and tied the bow... oh well. Just wait, they'll see!
  • AlanAlan
    Just saw it on my DVR. Very nice. It's about 8 minutes into the 30 minute program.
  • deejayohdeejayoh
    link to the story on King5 web site

    http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories ... 20fc8.html
  • The_TimThe_Tim
    Not coincidentally I'm sure, KOMO Radio contacted me this morning for a radio interview. I'll be on around 10:45 this morning, live.
  • The_TimThe_Tim
    There must not be very many of my coworkers that watch the nighttime King5 or Kong6 newscasts, because not one of the people in my building has said anything about it to me today...

    Either nobody saw it or they don't like what I said and are following the "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all" rule.
  • TJ_98370TJ_98370
    At my place of employment in Kitsap County, the only people that I know that care about real estate market developments are the specuvestors. No one else seems to know or care about what is going on.
  • redmondjpredmondjp
    Having worked at Tim's place of employment for five years, I'd guess that most of his coworkers are asleep by 10pm and don't watch any late newscasts. The production workers start at 5:30 or 6am, and a lot of the office workers start early also so they can beat afternoon traffic home.

    Good job Tim on the piece--I watched it last night on the news (didn't hear the radio interview this morning but doesn't sound like I missed much) and you came across very level-headed and rational.

    I have been hearing those radio ads telling people "don't listen to the national media; it's different here . . . " and laughing my head off as I drive home lately.
  • The_TimThe_Tim
    Good point JP. Although my particular building seems to generally come in much later than others (as late as 8:00, since we have no production directly attached to what we do), it's still probably a good bet that most of them were in bed.
  • yaomogaochawyaomogaochaw
    Now Tim is coming across as a very sensible and believable person, he's going to be the BIGGEST THREAT to the Seattle RE market. Instead of wasting money on ads, why don't the RE people work out some deal and give The Tim the real pink pony?

    Well done, Tim!
  • aylesayles
    Can one man single handedly bring down the Seattle RE market? It appears some think it so.

    Is Seattle Bubble Proof?
    119. ARDELL - November 8, 2007
    Did anyone see "The Tim" on TV last night? Interesting for him to reveal that his primary purpose in posting negatively is to get prices down so that he can buy one.

    I didn't see the beginning. Kim called me over to the TV while it was running.

    Absolutely ridiculous.

    I'm going to start a blog bashing Ferraris. Maybe with enough negative blogging I can afford to buy one for cruising around next summer.
  • Lake Hills RenterLake Hills Renter
    Ardell has proven her myopia time and again. I'm not surprised she heard exactly what she wanted to hear. I put about as much stock in her opinion as a use car salesman.
  • TJ_98370TJ_98370
    edited November 2007
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    Once again, with feeling, as it relates to Ardell

    "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
    .
  • fasterfaster
    ayles wrote:
    Absolutely ridiculous.

    I'm going to start a blog bashing Ferraris. Maybe with enough negative blogging I can afford to buy one for cruising around next summer.
    Buying one is only part of the problem.
    Once you have it, can you afford to drive it?
  • TJ_98370TJ_98370
    edited November 2007
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    I saw Tim's interview this morning on King 5 News. It went pretty much as described by the first linked story below (good job Tim), except at the very end they had video of a for sale sign in somebody's front yard with Tim's voice dubbed in saying something like "......There's no reason to wait for prices to come down." I just about dropped my coffee cup. Either I heard it wrong or out of context or they did some misleading editing. I hope like hell I heard it wrong.

    King 5 News

    They then followed with their Up Front feature, which did a story on Seattle real estate. They did mention Fortune magazine's predictions but it was basically a real estate ad with the interviewed Realtors espousing the familiar "it's a buyers market", "interest rates are really low" "land is becoming more scarce", "foreclosure rates are a lot lower than in California", "prices are only going to decrease by 1%" etc.

    Up Front
    ..
  • The_TimThe_Tim
    Unless they engaged in some very creative editing between the initial broadcast on Wednesday night and this morning's re-run, the audio that ran over the end was me saying "There's no reason not to just keep waiting, and watching the prices go down."

    I quite enjoyed the fact that they ended on that, actually.
  • TJ_98370TJ_98370
    Okay. So I missed the word not. Maybe it's time for me to get a TV with the closed caption feature. :?

    Also, the comments to the "Up Front" story (see link above) are of interest IMHO.
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