CA renter, Well, you made a lot of good points. Hopefully the kinks will get worked out. I have enjoyed the idea that maybe some of the more corrupt facets of our society are thinking, “we better act right, those bloggers are watching us!”
Allan from Fallbrook made a good point in saying that the blogging forum is pretty green and in it’s evolutionary phases with regards to legal interpretation(paraphrasing). The good part is that it brings us together on issues that we couldn’t begin to touch in numbers, from our lives outside cyberspace.
My guess is that if we ever have anything like martial law the Internet,or at least part of it will be the first thing to get the curfew.
My pet injustices don’t really have real estate as a focus too much. I know it is a system with a lot of problems and have no qualms against saying it is a “cartel” of sorts. However a few stupid or even rogue realtors didn’t make prices go up to the extent they did. Loan terms and underwriting did. Realtors were just in the best position to be exceptionally greedy. So naturally the level of realtor on the end of these shady deals is high. Buyers would have driven them up nearly as high anway.
I also think the industry and its actors are just easier targets for people to focus on.Especially now. I mean, it is the focal point of the “American Dream”. Hearts are made and broken with this stuff apparently. All jobs & industries have ethical baggage and bad players. It is just way less exciting. In the case of individual players there are few “professions” that make the bs component more clownishly apparent than many Realtors do. If I had not pondered this and put it into perspective as compared to the other crap people do in almost all professions it would be impossible to be a realtor.
I think , that a lot of this backlash comes from people’s disappointments with their own situation relative to the “American Dream”. I bet when either people buy, or come to realize only they are stopping themselves from owning this vigilance will go away.
My guess is that if this last paragraph were not true and injustice was our main aim,we would be blogging about women and children being buried in their houses in Iraq or world hunger or something like that, instead of when we are going to buy our relative palaces and all the jackasses that messed it up.
