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Thursday, June 14, 2007

AZ Real Estate Blogs & Bubble Bursters

Yesterday, the Arizona Republic did an article on Valley Real Estate Bloggers (at least that’s what the title was).  It was a little disappointing to read because it didn’t really have much to do with Valley Real Estate Bloggers.  In fact, BlogArizona.com was the only Arizona real estate blog mentioned.  While BlogArizona.com was the original Arizona real estate blog, there are many other great AZ real estate blogs that you couldn’t possibly miss if you were looking.  In fact, I even gave the AZ Republic reporter the names and URLs of at least 4 other Valley real estate blogs, yet none of them were mentioned in the article.  I mentioned Jay Thompson's blog, Bloodhound Blog, AZMortgageGuru and of course, my husband’s blog, the original Home Inspection Blog!

The article did mention some Valley bubble bursting blogs, if you consider those to be real estate blogs.  These are the bloggers who cheer for decreasing home values and hope for a total collapse of the real estate market.  They wish hateful things on all who own real estate - investors and average homeowners alike.  I believe some of them have more of a political agenda, some have a business motive to hate real estate, while others are just bitter renters who were priced out of the market during the last boom.  Regardless of the motives, the amount of hate you find on these ‘bubble burster’ blogs is just WRONG, and it makes me question everything they post.  While some of the facts they tout may indeed be true, it’s hard to give any credibility to someone that’s hoping the real estate market will crash so that all property owners will be financially hurt.  Normal people do NOT think this way.

As soon as I spoke with Glenn Creno, I suspected the article would focus on these bubble blogs.  He asked me several questions about them, and he was really curious why they were so hateful and what kind of person could seriously root for a collapse of the housing market.  So Jay, Greg, et al, don’t be offended your blogs weren’t mentioned -somehow I don’t imagine you’re losing sleep over it :).  You didn’t fit his agenda.  In fact, if anybody should be bothered by this article, it’s me.  BlogArizona was listed just beneath the Housing Panic blog, under the heading, “Critical of the Market”.  But at least the ‘chatter’ on BlogArizona.com “is more subdued” than the Housing Panic blog.

Seriously, there are more important things in the world to worry about than some Arizona Republic article.  As one of the comments on azcentral.com reminded me, Paris Hilton’s in jail.  I have to go watch the news and see how unfairly she was treated today!

Written By: Shannon Hubbard Realtor®-Investor Great American Realty, Inc. Cell: (480) 695-6672 Email me

Posted by Shannon Hubbard, Arizona Real Estate Agent on June 14, 2007 | Permalink

Comments

Shannon,

Thanks for the referral and mention. I think this blog of yours is a great asset to the local community and am glad it was prominently featured.

Thanks,
Shailsh

Posted by: Shailesh | Jun 15, 2007 3:06:38 PM

Thanks for the support Shailesh!

Posted by: Shannon Hubbard | Jun 15, 2007 6:32:28 PM

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