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January 12, 2011

Housing Market “Stake-Out’s”

Watching Too Much “Breaking Bad?” It could just be that I’ve been watching too much “Breaking Bad,” a superb series on AMC whose main character makes methamphetamine, and whose brother-in-law just happens to be an Albuquerque DEA agent. But, my listings’ online traffic — and my own anecdotal observations — tell me that it’s not just my imagination....
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2011 Housing Market: Déjà Vu or Vuja De?

Netflix at 150x Trailing Earnings?  No Thanks  “Vuja de“:  the distinct sense that somehow, something that just happened has never happened before. Nothing seems familiar. And then suddenly the feeling is gone. –George Carlin Worried about an overheated stock market, the smart money took some of their chips off the table, and started moving it...
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“My Listing, YOUR House”

Real Estate Pronouns: ‘Yours,’ ‘Mine,’ and ‘Ours’ There are Realtors out there who, once you’ve hired them, refer to everything in the plural. As in, “our” house, “our” listing price, “our” offer, etc. Unh-uh. When the deal is done, it’s my client’s house — and their mortgage payment. I explicitly take pains not to blur the distinction...
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