If there were Darwin Awards for real estate blogging, this would surely be a contender…
Web-savvy buyer puts offer on house. Web-savvy seller Googles buyer’s name and finds buyer’s very-up-to-date blog which lays out, blow by blow, buyer’s strategy for winning the house, including — I kid you not — how high he’s willing to go to get it.
Shockingly, the final agreed sales price of the home turns out to be the buyer’s highest price.
Moral of the story: Don’t blog about deals you’re currently doing, unless well sanitized.
And no, this is not a story I heard from somebody about something that happened to their second cousin’s ex-barber’s schoolteacher’s nephew. I heard this anecdote from the seller himself.
Tags: Real estate, Transparency
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1 Norm Fisher // Feb 5, 2007 at 8:54 pm
That is too funny (for the seller, of course). I occasionally encounter agents discussing deals on their blog which are “in the works.” Probably not the sharpest thing to do.
2 Danilo Bogdanovic // Feb 6, 2007 at 10:40 am
And the stupid award of the day goes to… That buyer should read Negotiating For Dummies before he makes any more purchases in his/her lifetime.
3 Marlow Harris // Feb 6, 2007 at 5:24 pm
That is such a hoot! Proof this transparency fad has gone too far….. As people are finding out, people DO read these things. And once you write it, even if you delete, your comments often live on in feeds.
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