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I can't stop reading the RE "pros'" blogs.

The_TimThe_Tim
edited July 2007 in Seattle Real Estate
Confession: I read pretty much every post over at Rain City Guide. I also head over to the Citizen Rain Real Estate page every few days to check up on all the other local real estate professionals' blogs.

Partly because I get a good laugh out of them now and then, but also because I find it interesting to peek into their world, to get a feel for what makes them tick, and what kind of topics they find important enough to blog about.

Apparently, the feeling's mutual:
ARDELL wrote:
I don't learn from blogs. I learn from consumers. So in that regard I'd have to say my favorite blog to read is Seattle Bubble, where the people talk and not the agents. ... Seattle Bubble has some riff-raff, but there's more info in the comments there, than anyplace else in the Blogosphere for me.

Comments

  • wreckingbullwreckingbull
    I have always appreciated Rhonda Porter's posts over at RCG. When the green light to buy comes on, I imagine she will be at the top of the Rolodex. I think it is hard to find that combination of knowledge, ethics, and common sense these days.
  • bilirubenbiliruben
    Rhonda's great, but still in denial about the magnitude of that debacle her industry has created.

    Other than our own Tim(Scrow) however, Jillayne is the cream of the crop. Her posts are the most informative and unbiased look inside the industry that I've seen locally.

    Ardell's reasonably open-minded, but tends to lump all "bubble-heads" into a more or less homogenous group, allowing her to write us all off as alarmists. This is necessary both to continue practicing her profession as well as to avoid a nervous breakdown given the outrageous risk she chose to take with her own purchase.

    The law-dudes are also good. Solid info and balanced.
  • prusakolepprusakolep
    What? The Tim and biliruben read RCG, too? So I'm not the only RCG troll? I can't wait till Jazen suggests we are all one person :P
  • deeplennondeeplennon
    wreckingbull wrote:
    I have always appreciated Rhonda Porter's posts over at RCG. When the green light to buy comes on, I imagine she will be at the top of the Rolodex. I think it is hard to find that combination of knowledge, ethics, and common sense these days.
    Agreed, just had that thought myself last week. Very impressed by her ethics.
  • kpomkpom
    Yeah - the regulars at RCG come across as being very competent at what they do - it's just their stabs at real estate price forecasting that are amusing.
  • perfectfireperfectfire
    The Tim wrote:
    ARDELL wrote:
    I don't learn from blogs. I learn from consumers. So in that regard I'd have to say my favorite blog to read is Seattle Bubble, where the people talk and not the agents. ... Seattle Bubble has some riff-raff, but there's more info in the comments there, than anyplace else in the Blogosphere for me.

    Notice how she said there's info in the comments. I bet The Tim and other contributers are counted among the riff-raff and guys like Finance are providing the info that she learns from.

    I must admit to a morbid curiosity of what industry pros are going through right now. I have a brother-in-law that became a mortgage broker just before the peak, lost his job and house as the market tanked, then found a job at another mortgage shop (from what I can gather). It's all I can do to keep from asking him a million questions about why he jumped right back into the game when things are so obviously bad.

    But the answer is probably dead simple if you apply the situation to yourself. I imagine if the software industry were to suddenly implode and I lose my job, what else could I do but find another job as a software engineer. I really don't know anything else.

    I still keep bugging my wife to ask him questions though.
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