Real Estate Blogs "A Great Forum to Vent Anger"
The Wall Street Journal delves into the world of real estate blogs this morning, with a focus on their commenting culture, to see how they’re faring as the housing crisis continues. “Thanks to the housing crisis, real-estate blogs are blooming not only in number, but in nastiness, as thousands of strangers swap stinging critiques of…
The Wall Street Journal delves into the world of real estate blogs this morning, with a focus on their commenting culture, to see how they’re faring as the housing crisis continues. “Thanks to the housing crisis, real-estate blogs are blooming not only in number, but in nastiness, as thousands of strangers swap stinging critiques of high-end homes hitting the market.” The paper looks at the fallout from the jabs, citing one house seller who tuned in to Brownstoner and saw his property getting the royal treatment, from us and from the commenters, alike. “Readers quickly chimed in, citing overuse of track lighting and black granite and calling the border on the bathtub ‘hideous’ and the furniture ‘cheesy,'” they write. “‘They’re probably hipsters — people who live really grungy,’ counters Dr. Fernandez, noting that the bathroom tiles are handmade and the ‘cheesy’ furniture cost over $100,000.” When another owner wrote in to defend her property, she was welcomed and called brave by, well, you guys. That’s right: you can be nice. What the article doesn’t say is that we have seen community forged from these pages at events like the commenters’ party earlier this month.
Housing Blogs Throw Stones [WSJ]
ENY…I assume you’re talking about me. Did you figure out yet that the elimination of term limits does not mean the same thing as an extended term for Bloomberg and that he still has to run for election??
This blog is a fun way to kill time, debate a little, hopefully educate and learn, and hear what’s on the minds of some fellow Brooklynites. No doubt there are some pretty accomplished folks here. But based on some of the stuff I’ve read, meeting some posters here would easily be among the worst occurrences I could imagine.
” I really don’t think this is the place where high-end buyers go to when looking for RE – let alone opinion about RE”
Please do provide a description of where us owners and buyers do go so that we can roundly criticize it roundly.
In any event – don’t these blogs provide a necessary foil to the over-effusive saccharine blathering hyper-excited hogwash that brokers provide. Awesome, stunning, breathtaking, spectacular. The kind of words that the rest of us only use when visting the Grand Canyon.
“the brokers… thats where you get the truth about the place they are trying to sell to you. ”
Now THAT is comedy gold!
Oh yeah…duh! Thanks BRG
I only read Am New York, Metro and all that other crap when someone leaves them in the men’s room!!
My colleagues, most who live outside of NY, love brownstoner. None of them have registered yet…just lurking
‘Yeah BRG, keep it up and people will think you’re being outrageously inflammatory and provocative! ;-)’
Will do, Biff.
I had chocolate for breakfast, my head is spinning from the sugar and I’m sharpening my tongue.
THL – if you go to the link ‘his property’…you will see the post and then the link to the listing. That bathroom was bad and your ‘house’ was juicy.
I am constantly surprised by the people who have never read or sometimes never even heard of Brownstoner. I mean, haven’t blogs simply replaces all those free throwaway papers people used to get from cafes and such?
It’s fascinating to hear stories of how people “discover” various new websites; very illuminating.
It’s true that there is sometimes a lot of nastiness on this list but the community can actually be very helpful too. In my years of looking for real estate, and considering various real estate decisions, it has been helpful to read this blog as additional information/context for how I think about real estate. Also, the forum provides very concrete, helpful advice. And yes, it can be fun to indulge in the addiction that clearly a lot of the regular posters share. I do wish things would not get as nasty as they sometimes do, but I suppose that’s the nature of an anonymous blog, particularly one about such an emotional subject, real estate, which touches upon such deep stuff as class, ideas about “home”, and for some, one’s very identity.