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]
This should be good for a hundred+ posts…
crimsonson…otherwise known as Dick Tracy, “Master of the Obvious.”
And the next snarky remark would be…”Do you have anything to sdd to the post other than commenting on the posters?” 🙂
i want rainbow recessed lighting 🙁
Funny, there weren’t any articles like this one in the WSJ talking about how everyone in these blogs was talking UP the market when it was exploding for the past 3 years…..But when the markets go down of course blame the bloggers!
I think these blogs have their fingers on the pulse of the cities they are in. Whether markets are going up or down. We are literally all up in the asses of the communities we live in! And I love it!
I actually agree with WSJ. Many ‘commentators’ in Curb and Brownstoner are typical bloggers – angry, bitter, high-horsed, etc. You know why? It is easy. It does not take any intelligence. There is no accountability. For all we know many of the commentators are renters in a sh!t hole in East New York with hand me down Ikea furniture.
Of course it does not change the fact that you can’t buy good taste. Nevertheless, RE bloggers dispense their 2 cents as if they are actual authority.
BRG…you did take a nasty pill this morning. You go girl!!!
BRG – you’re right, they really didn’t do us justice, they made us out to be kittens really.
im pretty damn grungy sometimes. aint no shame in that!
-rob
^^^^ I think my comment above is what they meant by nastiness.
The article failed to acknowledge that we really go to town when presented with a Mill Basin Property.