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By Patrick   Follow   Wed, 5 Sep 2012, 5:36pm   675 views   7 comments
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I'd like the home page to clearly spell out the best ways around our corrupt real estate system right now. So I've broken down the site into basically eight sections:

Defend Yourself From Bullshit Arguments

Consider Alternative Housing

Find A House Without An Agent

Calculate The House Value Via Rents

Get The House Inspected

Make A Cash Offer In Person

Get A Lawyer To Complete The Transaction

Change Our Evil System

Think that's clear enough?

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1. leo707 Follow Befriend (12) 10 threads 3,518 comments Oakland, CA leo707's website Premium

   1   5:53pm Wed 5 Sep 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   It sounds clear to me. You may want to add a subtitle for the links something along the lines of: Patrick says the best ways around our corrupt real estate system Also, in the "find a house without an agent" I don't see much in there on finding a FSBO which is the ideal situation. Not to nit-pick too much, but in titles one generally does not capitalize: a, an, the, to, in or via.

2. Patrick Follow Befriend (54) 5,235 threads 6,171 comments 46 male Menlo Park, CA Premium

   2   6:07pm Wed 5 Sep 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Thanks! OK, I added in "the best ways around our corrupt real estate system". I'll add in FSBO links to the house search part. I plan to continuously improve this until there is a smooth and well-worn and well-known path around all the non-productive or anti-productive leeches. I know about title capitalization rules, but I just hate the inconsistency. Similar to my problem with punctuation.

3. justme Follow Befriend (2) 33 threads 3,495 comments

   3   6:20pm Wed 5 Sep 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike   This is GOOD! It goes a long way toward restoring the editorial emphasis that had gotten lost in one of the recent front-page re-shufflings (cf. other discussion a few weeks ago). Thanks.

4. New Renter Follow Befriend (3) 14 threads 2,446 comments San Jose, CA Premium

   4   7:18pm Wed 5 Sep 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Dig it!

5. swebb Follow Befriend (3) 29 threads 505 comments Denver, CO

   5   9:05pm Wed 5 Sep 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Patrick says Think that's clear enough? It also appears that you made the "current discussions" part on the left of the page much "taller". Awesome.

6. leo707 Follow Befriend (12) 10 threads 3,518 comments Oakland, CA leo707's website Premium

   6   9:44am Thu 6 Sep 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike   Patrick says I know about title capitalization rules, but I just hate the inconsistency. Similar to my problem with punctuation. But! But! but...Ahhhhh....OK... Anyway a couple more items for you to consider: In the "Defend Yourself From Bullshit Arguments" section there is no defense to the bullshit argument that a buyers agent actually works for the buyer. You do mention in the "Find A House Without An Agent" section that there is an incentive for agent to screw the buyer. It may be helpful to have this text link to an anchor on the Defend page that details the incentive to screw. Another thing that I just thought of was the use of "Bullshit" in a title. While I personally have no objection to adult language it may turn off others who find patrick.net.

7. Patrick Follow Befriend (54) 5,235 threads 6,171 comments 46 male Menlo Park, CA Premium

   7   10:19am Thu 6 Sep 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   You are right! OK, argument number one is now about the bogus argument that the buyer's agent is free. And I changed "bullshit" to "bogus" everywhere, to help avoid spam filters.