The Real Estate Agent Bubble
It’s happened again.
Another acquaintance of mine has jumped on the Real Estate Agent bandwagon. At least once per month, someone I know tells me that they’re becoming a real estate agent. I wish them all the best, but there’s too damn many. I just found out that the pastor of a church I attended a few years back is now an agent.
I can’t even use the word “house” in a sentence without someone nearby handing me a business card or flyer. Just this weekend, my wife was driving by a garage sale, and made the mistake of slowing down. She didn’t notice that the house next door had a “For Sale” sign posted in the yard. A real estate agent, dressed completely in black, leaped out of the bushes and nearly managed to pull her from her car. She only escaped because a second real estate agent, from a competing firm, hit the first one with the sign. When I think of how narrowly we escaped owning another home, I shudder.
Seriously, though, what’s going to happen to all these people when the real estate bubble bursts? When all your friends are doing it, and it’s in the news every day, it’s probably too late. History is full of “next big things” that burned hot and then burned out, leaving trails of destruction behind them. I think of the Dot-COM craze, the Telecom boom, or the Democratic Party, and I weep for huddled, dirty masses who lost their shirts and their hopes of a better life.
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August 8th, 2005 at 12:43 pm
the real estate agent bubble is showing up in local news as well…
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/real_estate/article/0,1299,DRMN_414_3982213,00.html
August 12th, 2005 at 4:12 pm
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