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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tradelite who wrote (68501)	12/11/2006 10:44:27 AM
From: Think4Yourself	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 306849

My point is that becoming a Realtor is so easy that I became one with a week's worth of evening study. I just did it because most Realtors I talked to at the time didn't seem very competent, and a lot of money was at stake. Maybe it's changed since then. Was going to say that I'm not sure why you think analyzing markets is tough. After thinking about it a bit I do understand why a Realtor would think the analysis is difficult. On the overall level the profession has badly miscalled the top, and is currently miscalling a bottom. The Realtor profession seems to be the absolute worst of any group at recognizing the trends. That's not an insult but an objective analysis of the statements coming out of the NAR. This is surprising since they pretty much have exclusive access to present and historical comparison data. The rest of us have to go to the county records building or the tax assessor's office.