{"id":25087,"date":"2012-12-21T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T17:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?p=25087"},"modified":"2012-12-21T09:21:07","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T17:21:07","slug":"friday-flashback-i-tease-the-bubble-bloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/21\/friday-flashback-i-tease-the-bubble-bloggers\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Flashback: “I tease the bubble bloggers!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Local real estate salesman Mack McCoy<\/a>, writing on the now-defunct Seattle Real Estate Professionals blog in October 2007: I tease the bubble bloggers!<\/a><\/p>\n

The people on this board have extensive experience in the real estate world, and while there may be differences of opinion among them, the fact is that their opinions deserve to carry more weight than those of the amateurs who blog as a hobby.
\n…
\nThere are other sites and blogs, some staffed by experts, some by amateurs. If you think that the amateurs have somehow discovered the secrets that the Real Estate Cartel has been trying to keep from you, let me suggest to you that perhaps we’re just letting them think that those are the important secrets.<\/span>
\n…
\n\"MackSince the world has become so Lewis Carrollish, I, typically a composer in the folk-rock tradition, decided to compose this little ditty, completely out of love for my fellow bloggers and, in keeping with hip-hop tradition, callin’ out those who cannot get paid to comment on real estate and are only a few hundred transactions and tens of millions in sales volume behind me. With a special shout-out to the people who make landlording worthwhile.<\/p>\n

Let me hear ya say Ya-ay!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mack be representin’
\nSeattle Shoreline Downtown Edmon’
\nDon wanna hear no blowin’ o’ no bubble
\nDon wanna be inna middle o’ no trubble<\/p>\n

Think all the hobbyist
\nNeed to get ’emselves a life
\nKnow they ain’t experts
\nBut they preachin’ like dey right<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It goes on for another five verses.<\/p>\n

The purpose of our Friday Flashback series<\/a> is to remind people why it’s never a good idea to base your home purchase decisions on the word of someone with a vested financial interest in selling as many homes as possible for as much as possible, no matter what. If you’ve got a good example of local home salespeople or other industry shills on record making fools of themselves in the years before the bubble burst, shoot me an email<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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