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June 1, 2011

Want to See Who’s Paying Attention to a Listing? Let it Expire

Huh?? The explanation for the foregoing is that agents watching a listing — or their clients — will note that a listed home has suddenly disappeared, and will contact the listing agent to see what’s going on. That is, assuming they have interest.  In today’s market, homes that cancel or expire invariably pop up the next day or two,...
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Case-Shiller Misconceptions

“$!#!%#@! Case-Shiller” A lot of Twin Cities Realtors today are muttering variations on the above in the wake of yesterday’s latest housing statistics. If you’re not aware, Case-Shiller’s just-released March numbers indicate that the national housing market has officially now re-tested its lows (“double-dipped”), and that Minneapolis is the worst performing major U.S. market over the...
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“Corporations are not People”

Proposed 29th Amendment Rocks are not people. Frogs are not people. Cars are not people. Asteroids are not people. It should hardly be necessary to state something so patently obvious, but here goes one more: Corporations are not people. Cititzens United Aftermath Ahh, but according to the U.S. Supreme Court, corporations are people — or...
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Death by Continuing Ed

Who Accredits the Accreditors? That’s the question I have this morning after enduring one of the more mindless online continuing ed courses I’ve been subjected to (yeah, I picked it — based on a totally misrepresentative course description). Practically every other paragraph, the course interrupted the presentation with inane “review” quizzes with questions like the one...
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