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Imagine a REAL ESTATE publication referencing "Connecticut County ... in New York!" There truly is no hope for education in this country anymore!! (grin)
Surveys are not always "the real deal" when it comes to trends and opinions. HAR's survey was based on 403 responses from the PUBLIC over a six-month period in which they had a million unique visitors each month. 403 out of 6,000,000 is POINT zero-zero-six-seven percent, which is representative of exactly what? The MLS survey cited was based on the responses of fewer than 500 of the 3 million Realtors out there and 67 MLS folks out of over 900 MLSes. This is not far afield from the under-500 respondents who purportedly represent the technology directions Realtors are taking: 71% of them said they'd participated in fewer than 20 transaction sides the entire preceding year. These are not people who "know trends" or make decisions, they're people who have time to complete surveys! The ones who are actually DOING the things the surveys purport to represent were too busy doing the things they do to respond. Es machts nichts. The real answers aren't in surveys.