American real estate flea market

Joel over at FOREM sent this to us. Happy Friday!

Classy

My wife snapped this in Oakland today.

Crazy mail

I got this in the mail today:

I've become inured to crazy mail like this. 5 years of nut job mortgage offers pretty much took care of that. But this grabbed me. It's not that the approach is especially obnoxious or novel (If I weren't so tired, I'd scan the contents of the envelope -- old school DM at its best/worst). It's that the sentiment so crassly pitched here is being echoed in a thousand other places, hi and low, creating something sad: A bubble within the burst.

-- Brian Boero

Can you find the positive spin in this picture?

Ya gotta look real hard, but here's my attempt:

Most agents and brokers are bungling the foreclosure opportunity so badly that those who invest time learning how to work capably with investors and lenders, employ new online foreclosure applications, and approach the market place with sensitivity stand to profit handsomely.

-- Brian Boero