Monday, July 28, 2008

Weekly Housing Update

As a anon currently looking to purchase a home in our fair city - I read A LOT of housing print. Housing stats, housing reports, housing options, housing bitching, housing bickering,etc. 

SO! Once a week (or so) I will round up everything I found interesting a lump it into one big mess of a post! Excited?!?!? Yeah...me neither, but here we go anyway!

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First up, the Real Estate Wonk Brawl-For-All! Poor Jamie Smith Hopkins, she only wanted to run a little Baltimore Metro Area blog, instead she is center stage for the biggest-little slap-fest since the Jets battled the Sharks. Whether intentionally or not, Jamie discovered the easiest way for bloggers to put their heart on their sleeve, (right, wrong, or indifferent) by bringing up the touchy subject of current house prices. The battle of wills and name-calling got so fierce, one professional agent threw in the towel and went home. 

The moral of the story to all you jerks out there. Be nice, or you will lose all the people you like arguing with! 

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A city as F-bombed as Baltimore needs a lot of continual attention or THIS could happen! Urban Renewal seems like a pretty important thing for an over taxed, poorly lead city like Baltimore. We can't let a little thing like the potential collapse like US banking practices disrupt the house of cards our fair city is built on! Oh wait...crap.  Also to expand on this story is the cover of 'Duh!' Magazine...


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This is easily my favorite house-trolling website. 


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