Comments on: Say What? http://sandiegohomeblog.com/2006/11/15/say-what/ A San Diego Real Estate Web Log Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:03:29 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Kris Berg http://sandiegohomeblog.com/2006/11/15/say-what/comment-page-1/#comment-5886 Kris Berg Thu, 23 Nov 2006 16:45:29 +0000 http://sandiegohomeblog.com/2006/11/15/say-what/#comment-5886 Thanks, Ardell. I am on day 15 of the Martian Death Flu and showing the first signs that I may live to blog again. Happy Thanksgiving to the WA contingent! Thanks, Ardell. I am on day 15 of the Martian Death Flu and showing the first signs that I may live to blog again. Happy Thanksgiving to the WA contingent!

]]> By: Ardell DellaLoggia http://sandiegohomeblog.com/2006/11/15/say-what/comment-page-1/#comment-5880 Ardell DellaLoggia Thu, 23 Nov 2006 07:35:43 +0000 http://sandiegohomeblog.com/2006/11/15/say-what/#comment-5880 Don't "Say What"...Say WA!! Happy Thanksgiving you guys! Don’t “Say What”…Say WA!! Happy Thanksgiving you guys!

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]]> By: Athol Kay http://sandiegohomeblog.com/2006/11/15/say-what/comment-page-1/#comment-5489 Athol Kay Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:07:22 +0000 http://sandiegohomeblog.com/2006/11/15/say-what/#comment-5489 Really... Champaigne, what a amateur. Everyone knows that us realtor vampires drink merlot so as to provide a cover for when we actually get to feast on "the good stuff" at closings. :-P I toyed with the idea of suggesting responding with nasty letter to the editor, muck raking searches on his previous home sales, suggestting to his advertising department that "with the downturn in the housing market our budget is limited and we're having to make hard choices between buying champaigne and the newspaper advertising budget". But seriously now :-) Possibly a way to combat this sort of thing, is not to fight him, but help him write a better story for next time. Invite him over for a day and have him follow you about. (Run him ragged.) Give him your data and take on the market. Show him that the fabled wine cellar is in fact a storage room for open house signs. Let him know about the blog. Take the MLS out for a joyride. Ask him about writing. Win him over. What a wonderful oppotunity to make a mutually beneficial contact. You never know, maybe he'll discover he likes green eggs and ham. ;-) Really… Champaigne, what a amateur. Everyone knows that us realtor vampires drink merlot so as to provide a cover for when we actually get to feast on “the good stuff” at closings. :-P

I toyed with the idea of suggesting responding with nasty letter to the editor, muck raking searches on his previous home sales, suggestting to his advertising department that “with the downturn in the housing market our budget is limited and we’re having to make hard choices between buying champaigne and the newspaper advertising budget”.

But seriously now :-) Possibly a way to combat this sort of thing, is not to fight him, but help him write a better story for next time.

Invite him over for a day and have him follow you about. (Run him ragged.) Give him your data and take on the market. Show him that the fabled wine cellar is in fact a storage room for open house signs. Let him know about the blog. Take the MLS out for a joyride. Ask him about writing. Win him over. What a wonderful oppotunity to make a mutually beneficial contact.

You never know, maybe he’ll discover he likes green eggs and ham. ;-)

]]> By: Jeff Brown http://sandiegohomeblog.com/2006/11/15/say-what/comment-page-1/#comment-5479 Jeff Brown Wed, 15 Nov 2006 23:02:56 +0000 http://sandiegohomeblog.com/2006/11/15/say-what/#comment-5479 Kris & Steve - Roger Showley is a hack paid to help sell newspapers. Nothing more and nothing less. For the most part, those who can, do, and those who can't.........write for newspapers. (Of course with the exception of Greg Swann) :-) A simple look at the year over year numbers, as you so deftly pointed out, will show what is really happening. You nailed it. Showley isn't worth your time. Never has been. Kris & Steve – Roger Showley is a hack paid to help sell newspapers. Nothing more and nothing less. For the most part, those who can, do, and those who can’t………write for newspapers. (Of course with the exception of Greg Swann) :-)

A simple look at the year over year numbers, as you so deftly pointed out, will show what is really happening. You nailed it.

Showley isn’t worth your time. Never has been.

]]> By: Steve Berg http://sandiegohomeblog.com/2006/11/15/say-what/comment-page-1/#comment-5477 Steve Berg Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:25:31 +0000 http://sandiegohomeblog.com/2006/11/15/say-what/#comment-5477 I love to be right! :-) But you're right about Showley. What in the hell was that out of context reference about agents (not popping champaigne bottles) doing in this article. It really had nothing to do with it the rest of the article. As a writer for a major city newspaper, he is supposed to be objective. But he has forever slammed agent comissions as some "gift from god" that we somehow don't deserve for doing what people hire us and rely upon us for - help in buying or selling. He must have had a really shi*ty experience when he bought his last home. His anti-agent bias is really starting to get old and I'm feeling a RANT coming on! Uh! Oh! I love to be right! :-) But you’re right about Showley. What in the hell was that out of context reference about agents (not popping champaigne bottles) doing in this article. It really had nothing to do with it the rest of the article. As a writer for a major city newspaper, he is supposed to be objective. But he has forever slammed agent comissions as some “gift from god” that we somehow don’t deserve for doing what people hire us and rely upon us for – help in buying or selling. He must have had a really shi*ty experience when he bought his last home. His anti-agent bias is really starting to get old and I’m feeling a RANT coming on! Uh! Oh!

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