Contacting brokerages and advertisers; SE, listen!

are you kidding?

Get a new job westelle, it's clear that you're a starving broker who feels the need to find a responsible for your misery! A bubble popped 2 years ago. Nothing, you can say or do, can change that! Welcome to reality!

feeling the threat much?

and, what are the other options, westelle of advertising acumen? we've been bashing and they've been slashing and i've only noticed an increase in banner ads. for awhile there was some really strange shit, but now the visionaire, and others, seem to feel compelled to place ads. and i know why. they need to sell.

I'm not a broker and not associated with pro REstaters by any means.
But you collective reaction just illustrates that I'm right.
sledgehammer, I have a job and love it. I think your agitation prevents you from processing any logical info.
And if you don't think that SE would listen to its bread and butter providers, well...

well, i'll give away some more clues as to my identity, but my psych advisor at college was William McGuire. and I was a research assistant for Robert Sternberg. And you don't have a rats ass clue about advertising.

westelle: you are a silly little bird.

P09, smart can just get in the way some times. I have a general rule not to engage the asshole, unless of course it amuses me to do so. peace.

boy, things may or may not have become "stupid" here, but I think SE traffic has skyrocketed because of the fabulous amount of data and diversity of discussion. Both are laudable. I surely dont agree with everything thats said here but intelligent people can disagree and also quickly figure out what information is credible and what isnt.

Everyone I know who ive told about SE has become addicted...Its an advertisers dream

As they say in hollywood, the only bad publicity is no publicity

We are witnessing a backlash of SE's article at the NYT. It scared many people that were actually unaware of the power under these threads: a real community (and yes, AR, a real community is what an ad campaign needs.) Many brokers (even some very good ones) I've met told me that they monitor the listings but never paid attention to the ¨talk.¨ Now they've got to check it out, and many don't like what they're seeing. Insurrection!! Hords of sideline buyers like me actually getting way more data that they need, avoiding getting tricked into a bad deal. Revolution. Game is over. Only the best will survive. We know that they can do a good job.

according to alex.com, SE traffic is up 40% in the last three months. money talks.

alexa.com...sorry

We recently had a broker lie to us about how long an apartment had been up for rent. Broker said two weeks. We said: funny, but the listing has been up on SE for seven weeks. Broker had no response. Literally, dead silence.

don't think for a moment that the major brokerages aren't sitting around trying to figure out how to leverage this site....their biggest expense is the brokers.

Westelle -- you seem to assume that the purpose of SE is to be a real estate sales website -- in a purely positive spin, sell, sell, sell sort of way. That is NOT what the site is. It is to track information and then allow people to blog about it -- including discussion about the bubble.

Street easy is funded by the membership that pays a monthly fee. the brokerage houses information is extracted as part of market data. you seem to assume that they are paying for only a positive spin. Your desire for censorship is unAmerican. Shame on you. People desrve to see information -- good and bad -- when making a large real estate decision.

Westelle:
Isn't it kind of funny that the RE establishment and their promoters are whining because there exists a countervailing argument? Are we not allowed to have a two sided debate. The industry has refused to allow this to occur for decades. Maybe they are part of the problem, not the solution. It is like FOX news vs network news. american league vs national league, Cato institute, shorting stocks, consumer reports, get it!
This arguably is the best thing since the 19th amendment, Westelle, would you have opposed that? Silly bird!

Westelle: when you are able to contribute to any discussion on these boards at the same level as West81
(who has really educated me and helped me see apartments with a more educated view) or nyc10023 who is really knowledgeable or uwsmom, or even aboutready (who is a tad touchy but really well informed and helpful as well) I will pay you notice. Until then it's the ignore westelle button for me. What you seem to be missing is the sense of community, I daresay you would make a lousy neighbor. XOXO

Oh and did I neglect to mention Front Porch? Ali knows so much she should write a book...oh wait she did. What have you done lately?

I don't think anyone here is saying to never buy property, the voices are just saying that the current market is still over-priced. And in that sense, yes, advertisers should listen. And adjust to market reality.

I pay $10 a month so I am personally keeping this ship afloat. Please address your concerns to me directly. Keep in mind that I am a bitter bitter renter.

westelle - are you suggesting censorship on a blog???? That is shameful. If you want bullshit advertorial, go pick up any one of the many marketing sheets pumped out by the brokers and thinly veiled as "research".

Don't feed the trolls (use the ignore button!)

BUT to all the regular posters here: You guys are awesome and you have provided people with a lot of valuable information...keep it up!

Amazing source of info. As a sideliner who has been to a lot of openhouses, the info has proved very useful -- I now know how long an apt has been sitting on market, history of price cuts, other apts for sale in building, what reasonable common charges should be, issues about location, etc. All things that, when I first started looking (and even made 2 offers (thank god I didn't get them!)) I didn't really know about and listened to even my own broker telling how great the building was, how they thought it was a good price, and the best, that the NYC market will not really fall but may stagnante for a bit. I love the site, and the only people attacking it are the people who benefited from the lack of transparency in the RE market.

I would agree on the amazing source of info. Like any other unverifiable source of information, it is always to be taken with a grain of salt. Ditto - as in life - there are times when you'll agree with someone on one thing and times when you'll find him or her completely off-base. The point is, people should have access to information and opinions and then make their own reasonable decisions.