Some folks don't blog for business....

Some folks don't blog for business....
by Kaushik Sirkar, Chandler AZ REALTOR
Chandler Arizona Real Estate

This article appeared a couple of days ago in the Arizona Republic.  Now before I discuss it - why are most Real Estate Professionals blogging on Active Rain?  At some level or another, gaining exposure and additional business likely plays a role for a vast majority of Active Rain participants.  There is nothing wrong with that.  Get your thoughts out there, how you do business and maybe prospective clients will contact you to represent them!  And lenders - blogging on AR is a great way to market yourself to Realtors.  But this is nothing new!

Some folks blog for different reasons, as it relates to real estate.  The article linked above suggests that there are two distinct types of real estate blogs.  Those that suggest the housing market is heading for collapse and those that try to squelch that notion.  Blogs with scary names such as housingpanic.com and housingdoom.com are referenced.  These sites focus on the pending crash within the housing market.  If you read the article, in some cases it seems that some of the authors of those sites are bitter about what did or didn't occur in their lives in relation to the housing market.

Now AR, in my opinion, consists of many blogs that REALLY DON'T FIT into either of the two aforementioned categories.  I don't see a bunch of people blogging about the utter collpase of the housing market.  I also don't see a bunch of Realtors painting an unrealistic, rosy picture of the market, either.  I see numerous real estate related blogs that serve to DISCUSS, REPORT, QUESTION and INTERPRET.

What kind of blogs do you see on AR?

Thanks for Reading :)

Kaushik Sirkar, Chandler AZ REALTOR
http://www.homesphx.com