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The Feed Bag

July 14th, 2007 The Feed Bag


Increased SupplyKevin Boer explains why the Emperor has no clothes in Add a Pool, Lower Your Home’s Value  Required Reading.

Ken Schrammie rants on How Do Consumers Find Ethical Help? with a brutal story of a consumer getting screwed.

Darren Rowse at Problogger has a nice post of quotations from a ton of people summarizing Starting a Blog - What We Wish We Knew

Kris Berg ponders how much of an effect crappy agents have in a falling market. I’m in mild disagreement with Kris on some of this as you can see in the comments at Fear Factor - Who Makes a Real Estate Market?   Hopefully this post doesn’t get lost on the weekend. Required Reading.

Though Irvine Renter has a great example of some of the stuff Kris is talking about in this slash, burn or poison approach to price reductions. Also a few horrible photos of the property.

It’s a fine line between riding a market down to the bottom with baby reductions, or chopping your sellers profits to less than nothing with something too drastic.

Image robbed from here. A good Econ 101 summary of demand and supply.

…and you’ve been fed.

 

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