{"id":25623,"date":"2013-02-15T11:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T19:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?p=25623"},"modified":"2013-04-19T15:13:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T22:13:36","slug":"friday-flashback-what-more-can-you-ask-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/15\/friday-flashback-what-more-can-you-ask-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Flashback: &#8220;What more can you ask for?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an excerpt from an a Q&#038;A with the then-president of the Thurston County Realtors Association Bill Hutchinson that appeared in The Olympian in February 2008 (now available only <a href=\"http:\/\/nl.newsbank.com\/nl-search\/we\/Archives?p_product=OLPB&#038;p_theme=olpb&#038;p_action=search&#038;p_maxdocs=200&#038;s_dispstring=Bill%20Hutchinson%20took%20over%20as%20president%20of%20the%20Thurston%20County%20Realtors%20Association%20this%20year%20as%20the%20real%20estate%20market%20cooled%20off%20from%20record%20sales%20in%202006.%20AND%20date(2008)&#038;p_field_date-0=YMD_date&#038;p_params_date-0=date:B,E&#038;p_text_date-0=2008&#038;p_field_advanced-0=&#038;p_text_advanced-0=(%22Bill%20Hutchinson%20took%20over%20as%20president%20of%20the%20Thurston%20County%20Realtors%20Association%20this%20year%20as%20the%20real%20estate%20market%20cooled%20off%20from%20record%20sales%20in%202006.%22)&#038;xcal_numdocs=20&#038;p_perpage=10&#038;p_sort=YMD_date:D&#038;xcal_useweights=no\" title=\"Realtors Association chief expects diverse housing options in county\">behind their archive paywall<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Bill-Hutchinson_Olympia-realtor.jpg\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; margin: 5px 0pt 5px 5px; float: right\" title=\"Bill Hutchinson, president of the Thurston County Realtors Association\" alt=\"Bill Hutchinson, president of the Thurston County Realtors Association\" width=\"140\" height=\"160\" \/><strong>Q: Given where the market is today compared with a couple of years ago, what would your advice be for sellers and buyers now that the market has slowed down a bit?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> Right up front, this is a great time to buy. Interest rates are historically low; we have a great inventory of homes. As a buyer, what more can you ask for?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What more could you have asked for?  Oh, I don&#8217;t know&#8230; How about way cheaper homes?<\/p>\n<p>Say&#8230; people who waited four years after Bill Hutchinson&#8217;s &#8220;great time to buy&#8221; got not only homes that were around 25% cheaper but <em>also<\/em> interest rates that were <em>two whole points<\/em> lower!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/realtors-want-to-know-why-many-people-dont-trust-you\/\" title=\"Realtors: Want to know why many people don't trust you?\">how I responded to this drivel at the time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:85%; border-top:1px solid #CCCCCC;\">The purpose of our <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/tag\/friday-flashback\/\" title=\"Friday Flashback on Seattle Bubble\">Friday Flashback series<\/a> is to remind people why it&#8217;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&#8217;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, <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/contact\/\">shoot me an email<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an excerpt from an a Q&#038;A with the then-president of the Thurston County Realtors Association Bill Hutchinson that appeared in The Olympian in February 2008 (now available only behind their archive paywall): Q: Given where the market is today compared with a couple of years ago, what would your advice be for sellers and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"On the blog: Friday Flashback: \"What more can you ask for?\" http:\/\/wp.me\/pe2Bv-6Fh","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[206],"tags":[467,638,951,105,260],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-25623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-467","tag-friday-flashback","tag-hutchinson","tag-olympia","tag-thurston"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Friday Flashback: &quot;What more can you ask for?&quot; 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