{"id":16892,"date":"2011-09-06T07:58:04","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T14:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?p=16892"},"modified":"2011-09-06T08:58:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T15:58:23","slug":"help-me-improve-sound-housing-quarterly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/06\/help-me-improve-sound-housing-quarterly\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Me Improve Sound Housing Quarterly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back, I hope everyone had an enjoyable Labor Day.  Speaking of laboring, I recently finished another issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/housingquarterly.com\/?ref=sbp\" title=\"Sound Housing Quarterly\">Sound Housing Quarterly<\/a>.  For those not familiar with this project, it is a quarterly journal in which I roll up all of the vital local real estate statistics into one massive 40+ page tome, complete with its own unique set of 42 charts including affordability and my own custom heat index for eight Puget Sound counties: King, Snohomish, Pierce, Kitsap, Thurston, Island, Skagit, and Whatcom.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/housingquarterly.com\/downloads\/Sound-Housing-Quarterly_11Q2-Summary.pdf\" title=\"Download Sound Housing Quarterly - Q2 2011 Summary\">download a free single-page summary<\/a> of this quarter&#8217;s report, or <a href=\"http:\/\/housingquarterly.com\/free-archive\/\" title=\"Sound Housing Quarterly - Free Archive\">head over to the free archive<\/a> to check out last year&#8217;s Q2 report in full.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the latest look at the affordability and heat indices for the four counties closest to Seattle:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Affordability-1_2011-Q2-sbtn.png\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 0 10px;\" alt=\"Seattle-Area Affordability\" title=\"Seattle-Area Affordability\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/REHI-1_2011-Q2-sbtn.png\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px;\" alt=\"Seattle-Area Heat\" title=\"Seattle-Area Heat\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Both affordability and the heat index ticked up for the inner counties in the second quarter, as seasonal increases in home prices were offset by another plunge in interest rates.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been publishing <a href=\"http:\/\/housingquarterly.com\/?ref=sbp\" title=\"Sound Housing Quarterly\">Sound Housing Quarterly<\/a> for three years now, and while it has certainly been satisfying, it is a lot of work to do in addition to the content that I create daily here on Seattle Bubble.  Lately the number of subscribers to <a href=\"http:\/\/housingquarterly.com\/?ref=sbp\" title=\"Sound Housing Quarterly\">Sound Housing Quarterly<\/a> has been dwindling, so it seems like a good time to ask for your help.<\/p>\n<p>If you could take a little time to download the latest issue in the <a href=\"http:\/\/housingquarterly.com\/free-archive\/?ref=sbp\" title=\"Sound Housing Quarterly: Free Archive\">Free Archive<\/a>, have a look through it, and give me some specific feedback and constructive criticism here in the comments (or <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/contact\/\" title=\"Contact Me\">by email<\/a>, if you prefer), I would really appreciate it.  Here are some of the questions I&#8217;m trying to answer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is the existing content compelling?<\/li>\n<li>What additional content do you feel is missing?<\/li>\n<li>Are there other topics that should be covered?<\/li>\n<li>What content could\/should be dropped?<\/li>\n<li>Would you subscribe to it at <em>any<\/em> price?\n<ul>\n<li>If so, what price?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Who would be likely to subscribe?\n<ul>\n<li>How would you make them aware of it?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, if you like what I&#8217;m doing here on Seattle Bubble, <a href=\"http:\/\/housingquarterly.com\/subscribe\/?ref=sbp\" title=\"Sound Housing Quarterly\">purchasing a subscription to Sound Housing Quarterly<\/a> is a great way to help support my work here.  However, even if you don&#8217;t want to subscribe, you can help me out by giving me a little bit of your time to help make it a more attractive product that others will want to subscribe to.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks in advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back, I hope everyone had an enjoyable Labor Day. Speaking of laboring, I recently finished another issue of Sound Housing Quarterly. 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