I missed the spate of blog entries about New Years’ Resolutions, but I do have one or two, that are related perhaps.

• I want this blog to be more on topic, more of a consumer resource. I realize that means that I’ll get fewer comments, because so few of my readers are consumers, so far as I’ve been able to tell. I don’t care, really. Being more of a professional means being more on topic here. Period. Doing that in turn means reading my colleagues less, because that’s pretty much a distraction.
• If possible, I’d like to get more interaction going with readers about local real estate topics. But I won’t be holding my breath about that one, because, as I said, I think to the extent I’m on topic, my readership is likely to decline to me and the spiders.

At the same time, I have some ideas that might make some nice additional content that I haven’t coded yet. One of these would be a breakdown of Sacramento investment properties by Gross Rent Multiplier. (Yes, I know, Gross Rent Multiplier is a fairly dull-edged tool, but it’s a tool nevertheless, and it lends itself to the sort of automated reports I have in mind). The other possibility is an analysis of condo listings by total effective price (which I just made up). The idea is to compare the prices of condos from a monthly payment perspective, considering the impact of Home Owner Association dues so you can compare apples and oranges. That actually might make a neat calculator instead of a report, since of course it depends on what interest you can get.

Anyway we’ll see when I can get to that. Meantime I also have this really nice year in review post I’ve been promising, but I was too tired to be THAT on topic just yet.

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