Billions of dollars later the consumer is facing an national economic crisis. The Kelman guy goes on to his next venture and the Real Estate Industry takes the rap.

I don’t need a lesson, this is a dangerous blog, in my opinion. Like I said I don’t usually bother. The amount of bad information here is mounting, such as instructing me in what a blog is, or better yet accusing me of flaming:

“Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

To deliberately intimidate people, like Kelman did when he went to Congress to talk about how he was intimidated, adds nothing to my business. It adds nothing to the Real Estate business and in fact has proven to be bad for consumers.

So you wanted to blog, we’re blogging. I don’t think I’m hiding, I’m in the self promotion business. I’m not an attorney, I’m a Real estate agent.

Still, I kind of like the “Dear Abby” style where I get to stay 49 until I’m 83.

Are you growing a beard for Inman?

David…I’m going to give you a wide berth here because it’s part of the learning curve.

A little blog terminology to assist you:

You are not “blogging”, you are commenting on Dustin Luther’s blog. We are writers who blog/write posts on Dustin Luther’s blog.

I’d be happy to meet with you and give you a blog lesson about not “flaming” people or companies.

You can hate a concept, you can challenge a concept, you can strongly oppose an idea…but you can’t attack a person or a company. Disguising who you are talking about by calling them a derogatory similar name doesn’t eradicate the “flame”.

Hope that helps.

this site is a danger, in my opinion. it gets worse as time goes on.

you wanted to blog so we’re blogging. if you disagree with me by all means block my comments.

Sorry for the off topic agent garbage.

Why are you using our site to pick on Redfin? What is your point?

Clearly you can come up with some other agent who does as much or as little. Are you insinuating that every agent in the Puget Sound does it better? Don’t you think using the term “rodfun” suggests that people, male people, are playing with themselves? Do you think you are permitted as an agent to keep taking pot shots at them and using derogatory names to define them?

If you don’t have a legitimate point, I’m going to have to throw you into moderation, something we have never had to do with an agent in the past. Pick up your professionalism PLEASE!

You are not permitted to call Redfin “rodfun” again! I will delete your comment if you do that again. You are also not permitted, as an agent, to dislike one company over others. Unless you list ALL of the companies where you have EVER run into an agent who did lesser in your opinion…stop singling out and demeaning a company on this site!

Thank you.

As to the Redfin comment about filling out papers for a fee, that fits with my comment about their having more to worry about from the WSBA than the NAR. Craig should hate Redfin!

Finally, as to someone buying property at a price that’s too high for the market at the time they bought, I find that’s more typical of FSBO sales than MLS sales. When I price something I’m typically amazed at how well most of the comps fit within a range of one another. In the future I’ll have to start looking to see if the ones higher or lower than expected have the same selling brokerage as listing broker, indicating it might be an unrepresented buyer.