We love realtors

Cracking video, first found on housing panic.

What goes up, must go down

The housing market put to music.....

What does the real estate bubble mean to you?

Here is one realtor's misguided attempt to ridicule the housing bubble. Pathetic.

Cramer on housing

It is a sad fact but today everything is recorded. Here is Jim Cramer's sorry collection of misjudgements on the housing market. A year or so ago, he laughed at the possibility of a housing crash. Then he had a nervous breakdown.....

Supergenius speaks on the housing bubble

Let this video roll for a few minutes before making a judgement. It starts out bad, but after supergenius stops the ego-trip, he has a lot of interesting things to say.

All four videos are presented in sequence. Start at the top and work your way down.

More NAR rubbish

Are you missing an opportunity? Call a realtor today. As sales slide, those poor realtors aren't making any money any more. Things are getting desperate.

Bubbles

See, bubbles aren't so bad after all.

There will be no crash

Is it fair to pull out what a broker said around 15 months and compare it with reality. Perhaps not, but we will do it anyway. This clip is from Susan Greenfield, vice president and associate broker with Brown Harris Stevens in Manhattan. At some point in the distant past, (probably late 2005 or early 2006) she was asked to give her views about the 2006 outlook.

She had some strong views about the prospects of real estate crash back then. "No way", she said, "no way will the market crash". Instead, the market would slow. Well, you were right about that Susan. Things certainly have slowed.

However, Susan was being a little contradictory back then. One the one hand, she recognised that things had become a little crazy. Let she couldn't accept that prices might correct. Instead, Susan was content to think that things would just return to the 3-5 percent appreciations she had always known.

I wonder what she thinks today.

Do you want to be a millionaire?

Learn the secrets of success from a millionaire. Yes, it is Tom Vu, the Real estate genius. Just take Tom's profit seminar, and you can be just like Tom. Will be be financially independent for the rest of your life. No need to ask your boss for a raise again.

Do you see yourself as a millionaire, then "have some guts", go to one of Tom's seminars.

I wanna be rich for love, peace and happiness (whatever that means).

Realtor or politician? You decide

When I first saw this ad, I thought it was for some local politician running for state office. However, a few seconds further into the clip, it becomes apparent that this is an ad for a realtor.

There is something very odd going on here. We have a realtor, posing as a politician. However, Americans deeply distrust their politicians, and comparing your profession with glad-handing vote snatchers doesn't seem like a convincing sales pitch.

There is only one conclusion that we can reach. Realtors are even more unpopular than politicans. The thought behind this ad that the realtor profession will take a step up on the trustworthiness ladder if it implicitly associates itself with the vote-grabbing promise breakers living in Washington.

Things must be really desperate

Realtors must be desperate for sales. This is one of the crudest, stupidest ads for realtor services ever seen.

The lead-hounds

Here is an trade infomercial from Weichert. It explains how the company chases up home buyers for realtors. The key "take-away" from this clip is "don't let them get your phone number". If they do, these lead-hounds will hunt you down and eat you up. There is no escape from the "lead-incubators". You will close with a Weichert agent.

The real estate minute

I couldn't figure out what these guys were selling. They seemed like realtors. They also seemed to be saying that real estate was overvalued, by pointing out that house prices are high, and incomes too low. At one point, they seemed to suggest that renting seems like a good option.

So where are these guys going to make a living. I can't see too many 6 percent sales commissions coming out of this ad.

Turn the music down.....

Another wierd realtor ad - here some guy yacking on about working with first time buyers. However, his sales pitch is drowned out by some really irritating muzak.

Anyway this realtor is going to "work your transaction" - what exactly does that mean?

Will the real estate market crash?

Given the mountain of data out there showing that delinquencies are up, prices and down and inventory piling up like snow in winter, I thought that answer would be obvious.

However, I am wrong. The guy in this clip tells me that while prices might fluctuate a little, the market won't crash.

I am going to say something really hurtful about this guy; he looks like a realtor.

Foreclosure in America

There are some people who think that people who end up in foreclosue have only themselves to blame. However, the reality is that losing your home is a personal catastrophe. I don't blame the poor, sometimes misguided homeowners who took on more debt than they should have. I blame the mortgage lenders, the realtors and above all the Fed, who should have been regulating these jokers.

This video is hard to watch. However, it does reflect the reality of the sub prime crisis. Ordinary folks are being hurt.

Here is a realtor ad from Japan. It seems that realtors across the world speak a universial language. The message is always, "you need to move".

Another offensive realtor ad

This ad might seem like realtors trying to be funny, but think about the underlying premise of this ad and you will quickly realise that there is something really nasty going on here. If you want to understand the just exactly how stupid realtors think homebuyers are, then you will will find it here. The premise of this ad is that the new homeowner can not distinguish a wardrobe from a toilet.

Realtors would like everyone to believe that buying a homse is so complicated and we Americans are so stupid that we can't live without them. In fact, we are so dumb that we need them to go to the toilet.

On that offensive and insulting basis, realtors justify their 6 percent commissions.