Newsweek Disses HI's

[Mike Lamb]

In the 9/3/12 Newsweek economy section "The Housing Market Is Making A Comeback," HI's get left out of the money loop as home sales improve.

"And every time a home is sold, that's money in the pockets of real-estate agents, mortgage brokers, appraisers, lawyers and movers."

No respect.

[John Dirks Jr]

Newsweek = hack rag whose circulation has dwindled considerably

[ericwlewis]

In the 9/3/12 Newsweek economy section "The Housing Market Is Making A Comeback," HI's get left out of the money loop as home sales improve.

"And every time a home is sold, that's money in the pockets of real-estate agents, mortgage brokers, appraisers, lawyers and movers."

No respect.

I'm surprised the hard working movers got a nod.

We're in our third house and we've never needed a schiester lawyer to be involved[:-paperba

[kurt]

The best we can get is individual respect, maybe respect for our companies.

As a profession, nope.

[John Dirks Jr]

As far as the claim for comeback is concerned, sure, I'm inspecting houses but there's two sides to the coin. It seems that every other deal is either a short sale or a foreclosure. For each winner, there's a looser. Don't seem like much of a genuine economic comeback to me.

[gtblum]

As a profession, nope.

Whose fault is that? Who's doing anything about it?

Answer; 1 Our own. 2 Nobody. [:-weepn]

[Darren]

Whose fault is that? Who's doing anything about it?

Actually, PT is doing a lot about it. He and NACHI are dragging the whole profession underwater.

[kurt]

I'm not into assigning blame about who did what. It's not a bag race.

Plenty of us get respect in our jobs. The profession may or may not.