01-19-2009, 02:50 AM
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Originally posted by PaulW
You can't really blame realtors for talking up the market, that's what they do. They say it so often they start to believe it themselves. And who knows, maybe it helps.
As the saying goes, don't ask a barber if you need a haircut.
This is true. It's their job to do it. But they can get very offended if you point out their bias to them and the prices keep going down. [
]You should have been here back in 2006. Too bad I can't find the original "decline in realestate" thread in the archive. It was quite lively and continued for many pages. It was also quite damning for RE agents.