As far as your notion of guilt by association: it takes two to tango. A Realtor in itself is specific role, as a mortage broker,as an appraiser. You have good ones, and you have the fly-by-night,get rich quick ones that are clueless, questionable ethics,etc… The fact is, the lure of quick money brought a lot of “unqualified” gold diggers into the real estate profession (as did the tech bubble brought a lot of unqualified people into the I.T./engineering space- IE your glorified HTML/script kiddies). Hopefully, with this crash, it pretty much flushes out the fly-by-night folks.
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Im cracking up FLU…
Didnt these fly-by-night Techies drop out and go into RE?