Letter to Mr Chamberlin

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Josh, I fired off an email as well. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. This guy has about as an adept a command of the facts as your average Soviet “news” reporter from the 1970s.

George,

I hope you don’t consider this email to be hate mail, but I do have to say that I strongly disagree with the sentiments expressed in your North County Times article on housing. As the events of this week have shown, there is something fundamentally wrong with the housing market in various geographies throughout the country and most especially those in California, Florida, Nevada, Arizona and parts of the Northeast.

While you cite a government study discussing an impending crisis based on a shortfall of housing, you completely ignore the larger issue of affordability. The reason that housing is in the fix it is in has literally nothing to do with supply and demand, but rather the complete lack of affordability found in the California market. The lending market tried to respond with the creation of loans that enabled people with poor credit and insufficient income(s) to buy homes completely out of their price range. At some point, the bill always comes due, and that is what we are confronting right now.

The housing market, like all other markets, is responsive to market forces. The implosion of the credit markets and the repricing of risk will now have a significant impact. This, coupled with the massive tide of foreclosures, is what will drive pricing in housing for the foreseeable future, not some misplaced sentiment or the public’s inability to comprehend the true nature of the situation. When the FED and ECB are forced to inject billions of dollars and euros into the market in order to maintain liquidity, it bespeaks a larger problem than “97.4% of people paying their mortgage on time” and the problems being confined to the sub-prime market. We are literally on the cusp of what potentially might be the biggest housing crisis since the Great Depression.

I am hard pressed to imagine someone of your financial acumen is failing to grasp the totality of this situation. There is a huge overhang of inventory, loans are either nearly impossible to secure or very expensive to secure, foreclosures are at their highest rate since the early 1990s and we are seeing mortgage lenders fail on a daily basis. To say that bloggers are somehow wholly responsible for this situation strains credulity. It also suggests that these selfsame bloggers, who are really the only voice of reason and have been for quite some time, are somehow propagandizing the public at large. This is Orwellian to say the least, and it unfortunately does cause one to question either your objectivity or your honesty. Not to be rude, but after listening to Lawrence Yun of the NAR, and his predecessor David Lereah, pontificate about real estate appreciating ad infinitum, I think the general public has finally wised up to where the true propaganda is coming from.

Perhaps in your next column you might discuss the various market factors at play now, as well as what impact tens of thousands of foreclosures and a rapidly tightening credit market will have on home pricing. While I’m sure that government study is a fascinating read, I am not sure what, if anything, it has to do with the reality right outside our front door.

Sincerely,

Allan R. Mangold
Fallbrook, CA.

[Anonymous]

The other night I saw Chamberlain on NBC7/39 news commenting as their so called “real estate expert”. Unfreakinbelievable, why would a legitimate newscast like 7/39 employee this jackhole? All of those Chamberlain bashers should also consider writing to the director of 7/39 news to expose this clown for the incompetant, biased fool that he is.

[Anonymous]

The other night I saw Chamberlain on NBC7/39 news commenting as their so called “real estate expert”. Unfreakinbelievable, why would a legitimate newscast like 7/39 employee this jackhole? All of those Chamberlain bashers should also consider writing to the director of 7/39 news to expose this clown for the incompetant, biased fool that he is.

[Anonymous]

The other night I saw Chamberlain on NBC7/39 news commenting as their so called “real estate expert”. Unfreakinbelievable, why would a legitimate newscast like 7/39 employee this jackhole? All of those Chamberlain bashers should also consider writing to the director of 7/39 news to expose this clown for the incompetant, biased fool that he is.

[JWM in SD]

Like I said DeadZone, I strongly suspect Georgie’s employment is not long for this world right now. For the past few months I have been wondering how long this clown could get away with such BS. I think he really just stepped over the line now.

[JWM in SD]

Like I said DeadZone, I strongly suspect Georgie’s employment is not long for this world right now. For the past few months I have been wondering how long this clown could get away with such BS. I think he really just stepped over the line now.

[JWM in SD]

Like I said DeadZone, I strongly suspect Georgie’s employment is not long for this world right now. For the past few months I have been wondering how long this clown could get away with such BS. I think he really just stepped over the line now.

[SD Realtor]

Guys… the local news loves guys like GC… How bout Dan Holbrock? Anyone here dealt with him? He is quite a character…

The guy is a fixture and I don’t see him going anywhere unless there would be heavy public backlash against him.

For those that really want to see him gone, don’t mail him, email the program directors of the media outlets he serves.

SD Realtor

[SD Realtor]

Guys… the local news loves guys like GC… How bout Dan Holbrock? Anyone here dealt with him? He is quite a character…

The guy is a fixture and I don’t see him going anywhere unless there would be heavy public backlash against him.

For those that really want to see him gone, don’t mail him, email the program directors of the media outlets he serves.

SD Realtor

[SD Realtor]

Guys… the local news loves guys like GC… How bout Dan Holbrock? Anyone here dealt with him? He is quite a character…

The guy is a fixture and I don’t see him going anywhere unless there would be heavy public backlash against him.

For those that really want to see him gone, don’t mail him, email the program directors of the media outlets he serves.

SD Realtor

[JWM in SD]

“The guy is a fixture and I don’t see him going anywhere unless there would be heavy public backlash against him.”

Sorry, but I think you are dead wrong on this. The MSM will need to maintain credibility going forward. That is why you see articles in LA Times now on their front page. If they continue to be in denial as Rome burns around them then there will be backlash in the ratings eventually.

This is why Lanser of the OC register began to report bearish news and opened up the blog and got Padilla to come on board. LA Time is now trying to get out in front of this because the magnitude is starting become clear to them and if they continue to ignore it they will lose all credibility in the eyes of the public.

[JWM in SD]

“The guy is a fixture and I don’t see him going anywhere unless there would be heavy public backlash against him.”

Sorry, but I think you are dead wrong on this. The MSM will need to maintain credibility going forward. That is why you see articles in LA Times now on their front page. If they continue to be in denial as Rome burns around them then there will be backlash in the ratings eventually.

This is why Lanser of the OC register began to report bearish news and opened up the blog and got Padilla to come on board. LA Time is now trying to get out in front of this because the magnitude is starting become clear to them and if they continue to ignore it they will lose all credibility in the eyes of the public.

[JWM in SD]

“The guy is a fixture and I don’t see him going anywhere unless there would be heavy public backlash against him.”

Sorry, but I think you are dead wrong on this. The MSM will need to maintain credibility going forward. That is why you see articles in LA Times now on their front page. If they continue to be in denial as Rome burns around them then there will be backlash in the ratings eventually.

This is why Lanser of the OC register began to report bearish news and opened up the blog and got Padilla to come on board. LA Time is now trying to get out in front of this because the magnitude is starting become clear to them and if they continue to ignore it they will lose all credibility in the eyes of the public.

[SD Realtor]

I hope you are right JWM. Believe me, I don’t like the guy at all. I have posted many a time that I can tolerate him for all of a few moments and then I have to switch as my head begins to implode…. ol George and his buddy M.A… with the mortgage minute. I just bet KOGO has him in a long contract, (or visa verse) and I don’t see them shutting him down even as the mainstream media gets more readership by promoting the facts of what is going on to the front pages.

The media tilt is an interesting one…

Here is something that would be interesting… we see many media outlets promoting real estate… flip this house…an entire tv station (albeit cable, HG) as well as a plethora of shows on the radio all promoting real estate…

I wonder if a real estate radio show with a bearish outlook would get ratings?

SD Realtor

[SD Realtor]

I hope you are right JWM. Believe me, I don’t like the guy at all. I have posted many a time that I can tolerate him for all of a few moments and then I have to switch as my head begins to implode…. ol George and his buddy M.A… with the mortgage minute. I just bet KOGO has him in a long contract, (or visa verse) and I don’t see them shutting him down even as the mainstream media gets more readership by promoting the facts of what is going on to the front pages.

The media tilt is an interesting one…

Here is something that would be interesting… we see many media outlets promoting real estate… flip this house…an entire tv station (albeit cable, HG) as well as a plethora of shows on the radio all promoting real estate…

I wonder if a real estate radio show with a bearish outlook would get ratings?

SD Realtor

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