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You know how it is. The NAR had to get itself sued to death first. Inasmuch as nothing is actually changing – adamantly, nothing – that works out to be a decent deal. Rotting gia… Read More
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2023-10-26 13:15
How bad is your listing agent?“There are two real estate brokerage business models: Selling houses or milking agents. Redfin yearns to discover that it can’t do either.” &n&hell…Read More
2022-12-21 01:54
It’s no secret that I am a Tom Brady fan. I admire him because of his commitment to excellence and because he competes hard. His off-field conditioning is maniacal but, at 45 years old… Read More
2022-11-22 22:42
If you are following my journey, we moved to Tampa/St Pete FL last year. We still have a home in San Diego but spend most of the year in Florida. The reasons are plentiful but, when CO… Read More
2022-07-13 12:47
“If a slacker employee was mysteriously transformed into a house for sale…”Ask any old-timer in real estate what’s wrong with the iBuyer idea and he’ll tell yo… Read More
2022-06-11 13:42
Sticks and stones might make a home, but money makes all the difference…I live in a world in sticks: Everywhere I look, I see domiciles in progress: Single-family, huge multi-family p… Read More
2022-06-08 15:44
The housing market is “stuck”. Higher mortgage rates and the fear of higher property taxes cause Boomers and Millennials to “hunker down” rather than move to new home… Read More
2022-05-15 11:37
Zillow “creates” digital home valuations and The Fed “creates” digital currency so it’s not like we are dealing with credible institutions BUT:
The Dallas Fed i… Read More
2022-05-06 21:01
Southern California, agents are telling me that homebuyer enthusiasm has dropped quickly. More homes are on caravan and some are starting to reduce listing prices to get the home sold… Read More
2022-04-27 17:02
If you know me, you know that I am a fan of the Millionaire Real Estate Agent book by Gary Keller. His high touch marketing, to people you know, is a proven way to generate seller… Read More
2022-04-14 22:36
Most buyers find themselves in a multiple offer situation in today’s market. While the highest price often wins the home, other factors come into play–some buyers are waivi… Read More
2022-04-11 14:19
I don’t need to tell you that housing inventory is tight. Buyer agents are having a hard time earning a living today while listing agents are finding more and more competition.
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One… Read More
2022-04-01 17:10
Are you representing buyers right now? It’s hard…REALLY hard right now. You show 8-10 homes on the weekend, your buyers get excited about one of those homes, you make an offer o… Read More
2022-03-24 13:00
My apologies for not writing here lately. I need the server for business, but when I write here I get hammered from without and then lose days proving that I am not implausibly engaged in di… Read More
2022-01-03 17:06
I have a story – late for Christmas, but only for this Christmas – but it is brutal to the point of being gruesome. So far I have been able to keep my distance from it, and we&rs&hell…Read More
2021-11-27 12:52
“How sad would it be to be the only puppy in the litter?”Software gets better by versions, we are promised, but viruses do nothing but weaken: It’s actual evolution in… Read More
2021-11-26 15:35
“Why is the ‘Dog Show’ more people than dogs?”We watched network TV yesterday, briefly. Cathleen loves the parade, and she and Cleo were both thrilled by the dog show… Read More
2021-11-25 13:04
“I like the vet. He knows how to play rough.”I go to a free-market doctor: Cash-and-carry is the ideal, but if you want to get your insurance company involved, you’ll… Read More
2021-11-24 12:41
“Blah. Blah. Blah. The Kiddie Table is where all the dropped-food action is.”Miss Chioux is with us for Thanksgiving, a very special treat, and I don’t feel much like… Read More
2021-11-23 12:38
“What do you call a dog who is good at guile? The Imaginary Dog.”Much of my speech is ironical. I am a poet, to begin with, and I hate to bore my own ears. And I am a Swann… Read More
2021-11-22 12:55
“French Bulldogs are dutch babies – simpering pseudo-sucklings. Prove me wrong.”I managed to surprise Cathleen the other night: I argued that what makes a song great … Read More
2021-11-21 12:34
“Judging solely by appearances, bull dogs are spoiling for a fight, while hound dogs are praying for absolution.”Yesterday at the dog park, Cleo and I met a Boerboel –… Read More
2021-11-20 14:16
“If you only bother to train two out of every one-hundred puppies – leave your shoes outside.”Allowing for Portland, as always, there were no looting riots last night… Read More
2021-11-19 13:43
“Sadly, naps are blank pages in a journal that should be bursting with adventures.”Another day, another stupid dog study: “Everyday household noise stresses dogs out… Read More
2021-11-18 12:21
“Dogs have brains but not minds. Never wise, always diligent.”Here are three facts about intelligence:
Your dog is not intelligent, nor is any entity lacking a properly-func… Read More
2021-11-17 12:24
“Who is intimidated by a stuffed Dobermann?”People have been sending me clips from their local TV news stations about the devastation Zillow is leaving behind it, as it exit… Read More
2021-11-16 14:41
“Punish the good dogs and reward the bad ones? That is literally the recipe for making yourself dinner.”I was aware of the Rittenhouse shootings the night they happened. I w… Read More
2021-11-15 12:44
“Fat is as beautiful on people as it is on dogs.”True fact: I am a certified antique. I am but old in years, never in mind, but it remains that I was born in the midst of th… Read More
2021-11-14 14:48
“Some questions betray a complete lack of nasal awareness.”When first I met Miss Cleopatra Chioux, coming on a year ago, I would take her every Sunday to Rio Vista Park &nda&hell…Read More
2021-11-13 13:15
“You have to learn to pace yourself. The dog park should be more than just a few minutes of frenzy.”I am enduringly annoyed by the iBuyers. You may have noticed.
The most si… Read More
2021-11-12 12:22
“If you want diligence, get a dog. If you demand obedience, get a small one.”What hell it would be to have a job right now!
I am lucky that I am able to make my way in the w… Read More
2021-11-11 13:04
“If you won’t pick up after your own dog – what does that make you?”As previously dreaded, Zillow CEO Rich Barton is electing to leave devastation behind him, as… Read More
2021-11-10 13:28
“Could it be your life is too simple? I know a puppy who love to play with her ball – in the spray of the shower.”Here’s a true fact about iBuying: The sellers a… Read More
2021-11-09 13:01
“The Bloodhound won’t fit on the sofa? That’s not what the vacuum cleaner says.”One late-Summer Prime Day in 2019, from the depths of Death Valley – cancer… Read More
2021-11-08 12:53
“I’ll say this for people: No dog defends another dog’s food.”What will remain of the iBuyers, once the market turns?
As noted long ago, iBuying as such is a ver… Read More
2021-11-07 13:44
“Knowledge is knowing that a dog will chase a tennis ball when you throw it. Wisdom is knowing not to throw a second ball until he brings back the first one.”Every time we m… Read More
2021-11-06 14:01
“Do homeless dogs play in the rain?”So: We are all Colorado cake-bakers now. Who didn’t see this coming?
In other news:
Eugene Volokh: Realtors Group Hearing “Ha… Read More
2021-11-05 13:01
“There is no better way to punctuate a nap than a mid-day registered letter.”I’m playing with some new ideas for 2022. We haven’t done anything to campaign for n… Read More
2021-11-04 13:32
“Family doesn’t scale.”On Friday, October 22nd, the day of our actual, physical move, I found out that our net provider had not yet delivered on internet to the new house a… Read More
2021-11-03 13:01
“Imagine a puppy who takes three years to house train…”Well. It turns The Incumbent has a calculator on his phone. Even billionaires can identify a stupid business &n&hell…Read More
2021-10-22 11:39
“Dogs bark at dogs barking. Noise is not necessarily news.”Bloodhound Realty is moving its offices – and our residence – today. The COVID and ‘domestic ter… Read More
2021-10-21 13:59
“Dogs and horses are so much alike that it’s easy to forget how they relate to each other when the grub runs thin.”Who didn’t see this coming? Netflix caved.
Sin… Read More
2021-10-20 13:50
“Dogs who get bored are apparently just bored with napping.”The headline of the day belongs to The Babylon Bee, the most-accurate news source in America: “Arms Race He… Read More
2021-10-19 14:00
“If you tell me you’re a bird dog, it doesn’t mean you can fly.”Here’s an interesting question: Given that we know that the iBuyers gouge buyer’s age… Read More
2021-10-18 14:01
“Real estate is kids and dogs – and the redoubt that keeps them safe.”America is aghast at its own collapse, and this seems to have resulted in a dearth of fluffy real… Read More
2021-10-17 14:14
“You could build a casino from what people don’t get about luck.”We move officially, residence and office, on Friday. Miss Chioux is with us all week to help push the… Read More
2021-10-16 14:39
“Kibble is fodder. Meat is food!”I was talking with Brain Brady on Facebook about why Wagon Wheel is the perfect American song. I ended up here:
As music, I think it is the… Read More
2021-10-15 13:45
“There is more to making excuses for an untrained puppy than just the excuse-making.”It would be stupid to speak of Practical Anarchism and rules, so let’s settle for… Read More
2021-10-14 14:26
“Children who read slowly can be schooled to do better. Dogs who eat slowly have a hard way to go.”Inside my head, I have never felt myself to be a day over nineteen years o… Read More
2021-10-13 13:54
“Real estate is kids and dogs – and love. If you give love for Christmas, nothing else matters.”A Christmas carol in celebration of all the festivities so far:
It&rsqu&hell…Read More
2021-10-12 14:34
“There are only two places that bunny could be hiding: Here or somewhere else.”At the Arrowhead Towne Centre Mall, where Loco Willie drives the choo-choo train, the Lego sto… Read More
2021-10-11 14:21
“So you know, I prefer my game treed.”I’ve seen no “official” confirmation of this, but it looks like some air-traffic controllers and Southwest Airlines employ… Read More
2021-10-10 13:58
“What are rabbits for? Silly puppy. Rabbits are for dinner.”So here’s the funny part about Cleo’s instincts and the palpably tabula rasa state of her conscious a… Read More
2021-10-09 14:17
“Home is where the dogs are!”Cleo is with us, and she and I will be working at the new place today. I installed a TV over there yesterday, so we can have college football on… Read More
2021-10-08 14:06
“What matters most about moving is that the whole pack stays together!”I am Driven before everything, and my favorite ‘D’ word is: Difference. I love the word do… Read More
2021-10-07 13:36
“Why mint a ‘trillion dollar’ coin? Wouldn’t a custom ‘trillion dollar’ poker chip do just as well? Or why not just float a ‘trillion dollar’… Read More
2021-10-06 15:48
“‘Lizard season!’ ‘Bunny season!’ ‘Lizard season!’ ‘Bunny season!’ ‘Lizard season!’ ‘Bunny season!’”… Read More
2021-10-05 14:19
“Love wanes with distance. That’s why the internet wants to kill it.”So you know: The physical addiction to caffeine can be shed with only three days of excruciating h… Read More
2021-10-04 14:10
“What’s better than napping? Napping and snuggling.”I would hate to have to have a job, but there is a benefit: You get to see the same places at the same times every… Read More
2021-10-03 12:42
“Put one or the other in charge of the food supply. Then see how your cat and your dog get along.”The fate of big cities is to become Grasshopper ghettos: Working-from-home… Read More
2021-10-02 14:05
“In big cities, they raise children like unloved puppies. That’s why there’s shit everywhere.”I studied Latin as an adult, in pursuit of nothing but self-improve… Read More
2021-10-01 14:43
“People without dogs are lonely. Dogs without people are cold and wet – and lonely.”So the house I’ve been rehabbing for the past month sold for $20,000 over lis… Read More
2021-09-30 13:04
“You know what’s best about dollar-store dog toys? They only cost a dollar!”I love dollar stores, but more than that, I love Dollar Tree. The biggest Dollar Tree on ea… Read More
2021-09-29 13:50
“Puppies know who has treats. Dogs know how to befriend and not just bedevil.”It is your thinking brain that languidly declines Latin nouns and categorizes and conjugates al… Read More
2021-09-28 12:53
“If you don’t hear the slice of ham when it hits the kitchen floor, you’ll smell it on the breath of the dog who did.”More bad news for Fiasco Joe: The pandemic… Read More
2021-09-27 13:25
“A silent hog is a toothless dog.”John Hinderaker asks if electric cars are a joke, but I can think of something even funnier: Electric motorcycles.
Scooters, Vespas, mo-peds &nd&hell…Read More
2021-09-26 12:54
“Big brain and two hands, huh? Big deal. If I had two sets of jaws, you’d never win at tug-of-war, not ever again.”Who was looking ahead? This is me in February of 201… Read More
2021-09-25 15:34
“Every new critter at the pet store is allegedly ‘the new dog’. Hold your breath. Dogs and honest brokers come home with dinner when everyone else goes home hungry.&rd&hell…Read More
2021-09-24 15:18
“Why do dogs stretch and shake themselves out after a nap? To figure out if it’s time for another nap.”I link from here every day, and this blog has always been about… Read More
2021-09-23 14:25
“The best food is shared food.”Apparently the best thing managers can do, in the midst of a nationwide labor shortage, is to fire people in bulk…
I smile: Reality wil… Read More
2021-09-22 14:15
“Don’t forget: I’m a Saint Hubert’s Hound. You have nothing to teach me about heritage.”It is my gift in life to agitate – chemicals, that is. I lear… Read More
2021-09-21 14:34
“Home is where the heart is. That’s it – but that’s everything.”I’m finishing a rehab-from-hell right now, and the owner reminded me that we had done… Read More
2021-09-20 13:56
“Toys are for dogs who haven’t learned to appreciate naps.”At some point I will write an extended rhapsody of everything dogs can do that people can do. Here’s w… Read More
2021-09-19 14:28
“At a dog park, everyone has snacks – for their own dogs. At the Duffeeland Dog Park, you can snarfle up snacks like a buffet.”We are moving in forty-something days, a… Read More
2021-09-18 14:14
“Can’t get your dog to drop that tennis ball? Throw another one.”I had precisely this much to do with the events of January 6th: I made sure people I know and love wou… Read More
2021-09-17 15:08
“A good loud bark obviates the need for most biting.”I was showing for Cathleen once, maybe 15 years ago, to a woman who was deeply paranoid about her ex-boyfriend. We were… Read More
2021-09-16 13:35
“I met a four-pound dog – really just a fur-blur, a big bug with bones. I don’t guarantee her position and momentum can be measured at the same time.”Is the real… Read More
2021-09-15 15:17
“If your dog can’t defend himself from your cat, he’s too small!”I am agog – and not in the good way.
Entirely too much news, and of course all the matters… Read More
2021-09-14 15:26
“All Mammals can be house-trained. Dogs just got it worked out for them first.”I’m rehabbing a house right now, and I’m good at it. I’ll end up spending $1… Read More
2021-09-13 13:59
“If you’re looking for a cleanup job, go after the laminated dog spit. That’s a slick that just don’t quit.”Before the lockdowns, I used to shop at Fry&rsq&hell…Read More
2021-09-12 14:17
“Puppies bark or snore. When they go silent, that means trouble.”Legitimacy, ultimately, is a bargain: In exchange for my not fighting City Hall, City Hall agrees to do its… Read More
2021-09-11 12:51
“Don’t tell me you work in real estate if you’ve never had fresh paint on your nose.”This is the day for commemorating 9/11, but, really, why bother? We can just… Read More
2021-09-10 14:04
“You don’t see the pack – until you attack.”I smile.
The society with which I have almost nothing to do threatens to shun me. What shall I do?
We spoke about Iri… Read More
2021-09-09 14:39
“Life is about balance: Work and play hard, eat well and wisely – and nap with enthusiasm.”To read me is to study DISC-my-way by default, because that’s what I&r&hell…Read More
2021-09-08 14:55
“The puppies playing on the floor are the ones who weren’t afraid to take the leap off the sofa.”Fiasco Joe has by now lasted 15 days longer than I thought he would. E… Read More
2021-09-07 14:30
“What dog sells his own dinner?”As a matter of news, OfferPad went public last week – meaning none of the iBuyers are now backed by wide-awake entrepreneurs, just pie… Read More
2021-09-06 13:54
“More doorbell!”Since the advent of flat-screen HD-TVs, I’ve been telling my clients that the future of common spaces in the home is the sports bar: Not one big screen, but… Read More
2021-09-05 16:56
“Balloons are fun to wrestle with, until they just up and quit.”Our Afghan friends just won’t stay out of the news. I’ll leave out the salacious stuff, but it&rs&hell…Read More
2021-09-04 14:45
“You think it’s hot. I find it pleasant. But try being an Akita in this desert.”I sing the praises of practical ontology because we live in a cacophony of lies: You ei… Read More
2021-09-03 13:20
“‘Tug of War’ is always fun, but remember: It’s still my toy.”I wondered yesterday with Cathleen if the Texas abortion law would have an impact on migratio… Read More
2021-09-02 13:59
“Inferences are fun. You can make them out of almost nothing. Ask me how I know?”Hydroxychloroquine worked all along. This was obvious all last summer, through all the lying… Read More
2021-09-01 16:30
“If you stole it, you can’t savor it. You’ve gotta swallow fast before the other dog steals it back.”I saw a tweet that perfectly expresses the tragic futility o… Read More
2021-08-31 16:17
“To be friends, befriend.”I expected Fiasco Joe’s resignation a week ago tonight. This evening’s good, too, and China Joe’s reputation sinks with every hour he… Read More
2021-08-30 14:43
“Deep sleepers miss out on the best snack opportunities.”I rhapsodize church, but I don’t go to church. But: I do go to Fellowship Hour, as valet and manservant to Miss Cle… Read More
2021-08-29 13:59
“Heres what’s wrong with TV: 1. Not enough dogs. 2. Not enough barking. 3. Never enough doorbells.”I’m an atheist, but I really like the idea of church, and I wi… Read More
2021-08-28 13:56
“Too many so-called leaders are just good at getting lost.”In the years immediately after World War II, the United States imported scads of German intellectuals. Nazi envy?… Read More
2021-08-27 14:45
“Why are dogs never Marxists? Canines already know you can’t eat your own shit – which is all the wealth a Marxist can produce.”I am circumscribed, written into… Read More
2021-08-26 13:29
“Why do you ask ‘Who ate all the ham?’ when you know the cat didn’t do it?”I’m going to give you a brand-new term: Black-washing.
Black-washing is ra… Read More
2021-08-25 13:37
“There’s no excuse for mistreatment, but you’ll never get more of it than you’re willing to abide.”Buck Phiden is clarifying for me. Brevity is not the who… Read More
2021-08-24 15:02
“America’s best whole-body-health coaches are dogs who get walked. Sunlight, fresh air, vigorous exercise – and squirrels!”As of yesterday, and assuming the whol… Read More
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