Real Estate Ad of the Week
Here's a sales pitch coming straight from the heart.
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Comments (9)
My guess is they are selling it to move to a condo in the Pearl
Posted by Ann Onymous | October 13, 2006 6:56 AM
Nope, this is a family. This is their straight ad: hous-219203716@craigslist.org
Disclamier: I know the family and tipped Jack on the ad when I saw it.
Posted by Gil Johnson | October 13, 2006 8:59 AM
50% gain in two years, wow if you fall for that I have some options on pets.com I can sell you. Nopo has had a similar price run up. An acquantince of mine bought a ONE bedroom house for $345K in Nopo, but its okay because it was craftsman style right? On a similar note two months ago I recieved a flier in the mail for a house on the market down the street with an asking price of $695k, yesturday I recieved another flier for the same house with an asking price of $565k. Ouch...
Posted by gl | October 13, 2006 9:07 AM
Now that's a funny ad. I work in advertising and lately I've been hearing that even very large companies are looking for a way to set their ads apart from the pack. This family did it. (Without a multi-million dollar ad-agency contract!) Kudos!
Posted by Kigogal | October 13, 2006 9:38 AM
I don't believe a thing real estate agents say. I don't hate them just the tricky and unexperienced ones. Which in my opinion is most of them. Take the "no obligation market evaluation" for example, the oldest and most unoriginal term you will see advertised. Do they think people are stupid? The real definition should be, “yes I will come over to your home, tell you what it’s worth, then I will bug the hell out of you until you list it with me. In the meantime they will send you some “awesome” fridge magnets, calendars and pencils just so you don’t forget them. I have written at length about this, I'm NOT selling anything, just a frank, real world discussion.
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Posted by Paul P | October 13, 2006 9:42 AM
Love the ad.
(Still) hate the term "NoPo" -- there is just something so grating about it, like I have to be some kind of hipster with an asymmetrical haircut just to say it.
Posted by ellie | October 13, 2006 10:51 AM
This whole condo craze in Portland may end up like the Dutch Tulip Bulb crisis of 1635. I heard from a business owner in the Hawthorne district that the condos being built at 44th had been sold and resold before the foundation had even been poured. Is the person who finally occupies it going to be the sucker who can't sell it?
Posted by tom | October 13, 2006 11:11 AM
Tom,
I've heard speculators buying up blocks of condos in SOWHAT are taking a bath too... but it's just hearsay.... don't know if it's true.
Posted by Dave Lister | October 13, 2006 2:48 PM
NoPo ryhmes with PoPo and NoLo.
Mmmmmmmm? Why would wealthy retirees want to move into a condo farm in Portland? We have a burdensome tax structure, lots of shiny choo-choos filled with drug addicts enjoying the fareless square, and potholes you can park a Jetta in.
Posted by Mister Tee | October 14, 2006 1:13 AM