… and hope to find some answers. Maybe figure out why the industry is so dead. And come up with thing that will reawaken it. Is it more rate cuts? New apps maybe? Would slick TV ads do the trick? More blogs from Realtors about their personal lives?
Or maybe all we need is time. Maybe the American consumer is just taking a break from the mind numbing hazing of the housing market. From the onslaught of information and the rat-tat-tat of conflicting opinions strewn across the web.
Maybe they are taking a long needed hiatus from a 10-year long conversation about real estate. From Realtors. From the idea that a house is not a home, it’s an investment. From hundreds of websites with the same content, the same listing feeds and homes like this one for $848,000 marketed with only one picture.
Maybe they are tired of Zestimating, Cyberhoming, Homegaining, Coldwell Banking, searching and saving, clicking, hunting and form filling.
Maybe they are tired of being farmed, captured, cultivated, incubated, managed and dripped to death. You know … it just gets to be too much sometimes. Like a 3-year old that just keeps asking why, daddy? Why, daddy? Why, daddy?
Maybe they just need a break. After all, there are far more important things to be consumed with right now. Brittany, OJ, managing our Top Friend status on facebook, 50 Cent loosing his album sales bet with Kayne, Howard Schultz’s drop in his Forbes Top 400 ranking, and Whoopi on the view.
You know like … real life for a change.
Let’s use this downtime the best we can. Reflect. Clean house. Read. Think. Play. Reinvent.
– Davison
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Hiya Marc ~
Couldn't agree more.
The information overload numbs the senses anymore.
I look at the insanity of how real estate is done these days and just shake my head.
Too many agents, overpriced filthy dirty listings, flyers on 18# canary paper with B/W photos, no flyers in the boxes, homes listed in the wrong subdivision, incorrect driving directions, unreturned phone calls, part-time agents, etc, etc.
No wonder the public wants us to discount our fees.
I really enjoy these "times of quiet" because typically it means some great things are coming. In 2002-2004, another pretty slow time, some pretty big innovations quietly came to be and built themselves into something special: MySpace, LinkedIn and many others that were not just social networking types.
I think the best metaphor for our industry today would be a duck. It is calm on the surface but paddling like hell underneath.
A duck – yes that a cool image.
I think of a gyser. There's steam rising all around us. Pretty soon some big things are going to burst out.
Hey, I love your site. It seems most people don’t really bother writing articles that lack substance nowadays.
Next time include sources please =)
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