I have two questions: 

• Where are we headed?  
• Are we there yet?

I’ve been decidedly off my blogging feed (no pun intended) lately.

When I was little and was getting over the flu, mom would always recommend something bland, like saltine crackers and flat ginger ale.

Lately I feel like that’s about what my writing has been like:  saltine crackers and flat ginger ale. 

Fortunately for me, Purva has been writing a lot or real estate FAQ posts and that’s been keeping the blog going.

Me I’m just fighting to get my eloquence mojo back, sort of like Rocky VIII.

Another Sad Market Tale

Darn, it was dispiriting to learn that a good friend of mine, an agent formerly with another company, and possible Elite Properties recruit went back in to property management lately — a job she doesn’t really like — even though she’s a very strong, experienced agent, who did better than most agents are doing last year.  I was talking to her today and she was finally pushed over the edge by tire-kickers and a short sale that is taking forever to close. 

It was sure nice to hear from her when she returned my call, but I wish it had been under better circumstances.

It’s one thing to see agents who are not doing well leaving the business — which happens even in up markets.  When strong people leave, that’s pretty disquieting.

What Kind of Blog Is This

That’s another thing:  What kind of blog is this.  For many years this blog has been about real estate in the Sacramento area.  A real estate blog vendor was nice enough to give us props recently as a purveyor of lots of good market information.

Sometimes I wish we had an exciting blog, where we wrote about things like showing homes with our IPhones and called Glen Turkee an idiot and had lots of people commenting about who’s the vendor and hey, let’s bring the Diet Coke and Chips.

Mostly, as I’ve pointed out, the A-list folks pretty much ignore me and I pretty much ignore them.  We’re not on anyone’s A-List.

It could still be a good blog, though.  I have high hopes.

Stupid Spam Comments

Generally in response to the shorter posts about real estate that Purva’s been writing lately, we’ve been getting all sorts of comments from people named “Florida Real Estate” and “Georgia Fishing Vacation”.

Granted, this is not the kind of blog where we write about IPhones and GlenTurkee, so we don’t get a lot of comments.

And sometimes admittedly I’ve been a bit heavy handed with the moderate button, in the case of bubblers who often just want to stir things up and people trying to sell crap in Boise.

But look, if you want to comment on the blog such as it is, you should do yourself a favor and Google the following:  “nofollow tag”.  If you figure out what the search engines figured out five years ago, you’ll be more likely to come in here and tell us you’re real name.  Joe Scampi, or Peggy-Sue Hiply, or whatever it is.  We spend a lot of time writing stuff, and we go by our names.  If you’re going to do link spam, at least do it someplace where you’re going to get a benefit.  Don’t do it here.

That’s Enough Silly Ranting for One Day

Actually it’s enough for longer than that, but bear with me — I’m not sure I’m done.

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