Let’s all go to “NAR”di Gras!

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New Orleans
November 10-13, 2006.

Although this appears to be outside of hurricane season, those poor folks down there better be prepared to keep an eye on everything that isn’t tied down 😉

As seen the last several years, NAR and its’ membership, have been enabling the infliction of more damage to American families than any hurricane could ever aspire to.

[powayseller]

Please explain.

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I’m sorry powayseller…

This is the annual National Association of Realtors convention and it is being held in New Orleans this year.

I was attempting to be funny, implying that realtors are going to be so broke by the end of summer that they, themselves, may be the ones looting New Orleans this time around.

[sdappraiser]

Don’t hate the player. Hate the game.

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Sorry SDAppraiser-

I saved enough Sunday Homes sections (from the Union Tribune and the like) over the last three years to be able to share with you that the players were a large part of the game.

“Buy now or be priced out forever” was never part of the game before….yet I have several DOZEN articles written locally by realtors over the last three years that suggest these were the new rules of the game.

Unless…you feel I should buy now or be priced out forever? Didn’t think so.

No way to separate the two (players/the game)…none at all. By the way…buying a house to live in should never have become a game.

P.S. Any “hit-the-number” appraiser friends of yours should expect to be visited by the FBI in coming years. Usually I would say something like “Heaven help them”. Not in this case….”burn, baby, burn”.

[sdappraiser]

Collecting Sunday papers for 3 years sounds like a fun hobby and a great way to spend the weekend.

I’ve missed a lot of your previous posts, so I forget why you are so wound up and bitter. Please feel free to remind me why you have such a vested interest in this if you like.

BTW – FBI is not coming fast enough. The state licensing board virtually ignores any complaints that have been filed. Everyone including the bank QC departments have turned a blind eye in the past, even when notified that a loan has funded due to potential fraud. The damage is already done.

I’ve done what I can to clean up my profession and I play by the rules. Don’t hate the player.

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Sounds like you are a “player” who is worthy of an free pass.

No hate here, by the way. I, like you, am doing my part to clean up the real estate profession. If I happen to save a few outlandish articles for posterity, then I will be able to share them in the future so that others don’t follow the advice of these snake oil salesmen again. What’s so wrong with that? Check out “BULL! 144 Stupid Statements From the Market’s Fallen Prophets” by Greg Eckler & L.M. MacDonald for a fun read that would not have been possible if history had not been kept on some of the stupid things Jim Cramer, Mary Meeker, Suze Orman, Lou Dobbs, and even Alan Greenspan said during the final hours before the stock market meltdown of 2000-2003.

My bitterness stems from my own inability to convince good friends that buying last year and THIS year were mistakes. I know that they are screwed now and I do partially blame the statements made by David Lereah, LAY, and other local pundits in influencing their decisions. That’s it. I could give a darn whether I ever own another house here in San Diego. I’m just tired of all the lies I read every day. Nuff said?

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