I was as surprised as most people, when I woke up yesterday to see myself on the front page of the Seattle PI next to Obama's stimulus plan.  Sure, I knew Aubrey called me, and expected maybe a little one line blurb in the real estate section.

But "Agent Predicts Housing Slump's Demise" as front page news right next to Obama's stimulus plan?  It wasn't exactly a slow news day.  Poor Aubrey's getting a lot of flack for acknowledging me as a "credible source". Hey, he's entitled to his opinion, and seems he was familiar enough with my three years of blog posting to make his own call on that.  You can't please everyone, Aubrey :)

I had never spoken with Aubrey before, to the best of my knowledge.  So I was surprised to see that this wasn't the first time Aubrey Cohen and Ardell DellaLoggia showed up in print together ,according to Google.  After seeing the paper and before I had my first cup of coffee, another surprise.

A call from the Dave Ross show asking me to be on at 10:15. 

All this from a couple of posts I wrote on Rain City Guide on Saturday and Sunday, and I'll likely spend the better part of the next couple of weeks defining what buyers have to do to get a home at bottom prices, as a result.  Reality is I do that for my clients, if that is their objective.  Yes, I can do that.  Can everyone?  Of course not!  If everyone could get a house at bottom today...it wouldn't be the bottom.  Think about that.

In response to Dustin's post today at Rain City Guide, I created a huge Kirkland linking post over on my Kirkland Blog.

Lots of good resources in those hyperlinks in the post for people interested in Seattle real estate and Kirkland "stuff".