Blogoff play-by-play commentator, The Property Monger, is a game, intrepid real estate weblogger. Writer Jon Ernest strikes the right kind balance for me. He holds his own local market, Boston/Brookline/Cambridge, in due regard, yet attends to national real estate news and issues, bringing to all of it an acerbic, mildly-self-deprecating wit. The combination is addictive.
A sample:
Zillow is going to take the homeowners opinion of value and save it to their database!!!
So lets start the logic train:
One of the primary reasons Real Estate Agents are needed is to get a fair UNBIASED opinion of value. Homeowners almost ALWAYS overvalue their property because they know the blood sweat and tears that went into it. They know that it’s Italian marble, and bamboo floors, and imported whatever. They easily mistake COST for VALUE.
Now let’s assume that zillow takes over the Real Estate industry, and everyone uses zillow. Sellers use it to find out what their property is worth. And sellers know that buyers will look at zillow to find out what a property is worth. And they think that knowing that, the average seller isn’t going to try to stretch that number as much as possible?!?!?!
“Now, not everyone is that immoral Jon.” (yes they are) But ok, not everyone is that immoral, but you have to admit, there is a faction that is. Which leads us to the other problem is that even the moral and accurate Zestimates are still going to be derived by a fraction of innaccurate zestimates!
I think I’m officially sick with joy and annoyance at the same time.
The template is pretty but hard to read (albeit WordPress). I want to smack Jon for the sloppy grammar and punctuation. But through it all shines a living mind: Fun, funny, irreverent — and very serious.
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Bonnie Erickson says:
It’s three hours into the blogathon and only two posts? Oh, my. You only get a bit over 14 minutes per entry in time. Your time is a-wasting!
September 26, 2006 — 1:05 am
Cathleen Collins says:
You’re in a different time zone, Bonnie. Seattle and Phoenix are both at the same time when daylight saving is in effect… which is Pacific Time. It’s just past 1:30 here.
September 26, 2006 — 1:32 am
jf.sellsius says:
Kudos to the Property Monger.
September 26, 2006 — 6:57 am