Your most important consideration regarding media centers on what you can do for them and their readers or viewers. Their business needs ratings to be successful. If you can help them with that, they don’t mind you gaining an advantage from the relationship as well. But you need to be clearly focused on what you are delivering to their audience that will benefit them and make them better off. The media, generally speaking, couldn’t care less about you, unless you help them with their audience in some way. You need to get more people to watch their show. If you can do that, you can be a star! (well, at least you can get booked on some shows or quoted in the paper)
Housing prices
Prices aren’t controlled by realtors, appraisers, nor governments. Prices, in housing, aren’t controlled at all really. But to say that there are no factors that influence them isn’t correct, just the word “control” would, by most, be considered incorrect.
Houses are sold by one party and bought by another based on a negotiation and prices are basically based on supply and demand. Realtors, et. al., have a role in the negotiation, but they can’t overcome supply and demand, which is influenced by factors such as unemployment, interest rates, and market psychology. The prices are set by whatever the two parties agree on, it’s to the factors that effect that negotiation we should look to see hints of price changes.
Stock market drop
The stock market has only droped like this a couple of times, and it’s the biggest drop in almost 5 years. I think this is like the four or fifth largest point decline in the dow history. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s headline news in tomorrows papers as it’s the lead story in the NY Times and Washington Post online right now. Indifference here is a risky strategy for advisers, unless you can afford to lose a few clients. Today is the test of client relationships.
Dr. Douglas Rice 