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Selling Fear & Entitlement To The Culture Of ME

Mommy Congress and Daddy Bush have asked Granddad Paulson to give the markets a "loan". Seems we all overspent a little too much over the past few years and need some help to get by."Rock a bye Baby, it will be OK". Read more →

Bottom?

It will get better, sooner than later! This sounds like the mom telling her son that the swelling and welt on his face will go away minutes after just getting pummeled by the school bully. Nevertheless, we see some positivity even while stock plunge. The... Read more →

My Recession is Worse Than Yours

Have you participated in a pity party lately? Have we as an industry,like our country become whiners? Tony Robbins thinks we are emotionally unfit. In Today's real estate mess Misses '80s Mark by a Mile, the author illustrates why this isn't as bad as back... Read more →

Some Perspective on the U.S. Economy

In today's economic environment there is a little of everything for the pessimist and the optimist. Foreclosures are at record levels. Sales volume is way down. Vegas seems to be ground zero for bad housing news. As I mentioned in a previous post, to some... Read more →

Some Good News In Housing

Housing is getting some good news as the markets keep fighting on despite the front running economists saying its all but dead.

First off any good news needs a narrative and it starts with Donald Trumps record sale of his Florida Mansion.

Meanwhile U.S. Housing starts U.S. housing starts unexpectedly surged 9.1%,  the most in more than two years in June.  Barron's Magazine is asking if the market is ready for the "giddy days again".Stating a recovery may well be on its way. While affordability of many real estate markets are being sung across he Country.

Study good and bad news on the web. Be curious how it spreads. Do you want to talk viral marketing? This is how it is done folks. Not some widget or some poorly conceived link bait.

This is good news folks. If I was an agent I would publicize it.Everywhere. My next move after this post is to talk about Trumps sale at Twitter.  I would get the world to know that there is positivity out there. Say it enough times and eventually it will catch on. Perception is reality.

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Is America the New Debbie Downer?

Even before the recession hit (darn there I go we are not in a recession by technical standards) we heard that the economy sucked. Never mind that we had the longest growth in U.S. history and unprecedented unemployment. A new article at the Washington Post... Read more →

Recession Repression

The World is truly freaky! Lots of bad news and lots of good news. Foreclosures are crazy, to fill my gas tank I need some of that no down financing from Countrywide. All while retails sales is higher than expected. How can that be? As... Read more →

Is the Housing Bust Over?

I list his analysis over at the Positive Real Estate site. I am not sure if you get what this site can do for you. It lists a library of positive news on your profession, on your product-housing. No bad news is allowed. And the bubblistas have tried. I simply will not be fair and balanced. Its all roses and flowers all the time. Well pretty much anyway.

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Prices are Going Up?

I guess it is all in whose stats you read.

This from Coaching Clues Newsletter: The Sky Is Not Falling!

They point out that despite the media darling Case-Shiller index, the better indicator of the indices is provided by OFHEO (the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight), Realogy and NAR. These three organizations seem to validate one anothers results.

They all have come to the same conclusion: 

"Overall U.S. prices were UP 0.6 percent....In other words, a whopping 77 percent of the areas in the U.S. eported a price increase in January 08 - February 08! The Case-Shiller Index, in contrast, concludes that 95 percent of the MSA's reported negative returns. "

Bernice has been at the forefront on preaching the positivety as we have at positiveonrealestate.com.

I believe that this economic situation is way overblown and so is the housing crisis. It cannot be a meltdown when you continually hear of multiple offers occuring across the country.

By blogging and posting great real estate news you can help counter the negative impressions that get published daily in the traditional media. You can be a leader and can help form the public impression on housing.

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Dave Lakhani Ends the Recession

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The Three Prong Spear to Housing

I visited a friend over the weekend and he asked me what is up with real estate? In fact he posited that, "aren't we at the bottom?" That was interesting that he would think that. I told him that my unscientific reasoning is that: The... Read more →