Every week I feel like the black sheep in the office meeting for thinking that any kind of media report of any amount of bad housing news is allowable.

While the quote might not apply to you or me (or the contributors or readers of AgentGenius), is it perhaps closer to the truth than we might like to admit?

NAR has no bearing on how we do locally and rarely does anyone we talk to on the ground know who Yun is, nor do they keep up with NAR reports (that could be because appreciation here is in line with forecasting and people only care that THEIR pocketbook is doing well).

But regardless of the entire Slate article, the comment I quoted above is condescending, irritatingly insulting, ignorant, rude, and implies some secret code that brokers follow regardless of logic.

Numerous RE bloggers have been saying for a solid year that Lereah and now Yun are spouting pollyanna gibberish at every possible opportunity to do so. Slate hasn’t said anything new that we haven’t said over and over.

I think the general public view NAR reports on housing with the same level of distrust as a Big Tobacco companies research on the effects of smoking.

I think that Realtors are so grossly conditioned to sell appreciation that they don’t understand the benefits of home ownership as a non investment vehicle: quality of life, community, willinnes to be included, transparency, autonomy over one’s environment.

No, they are not learning to sell that fast enough, so they have to sell against renting against, other things.

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