Subjective language? lol

[Fernando]

Yes, I would have to give up my pool, my outdoor living area, my extra cars, the top half of my house and my sanity to move there.

Practically speaking, pools are expensive to maintained. I hardly use my yard but enjoy my 2nd floor deck looking down (feeling like a King) at the little folks.
The squirrels, rats, gophers, birds do drive me insane and so much pain.

 

[alebrewer]

When Texans move to CA, they have to downsize and get rid of lots of furniture and belongings. That could explain why less TX migration to CA. Must be.

As usual - you're a beacon of wisdom, Fern.

 

[Tim Hicks (Texas)]

The squirrels, rats, gophers, birds do drive me insane and so much pain.

They can spot a RINO anywhere in the wild.

 

[Tim Hicks (Texas)]

Practically speaking, pools are expensive to maintained. I hardly use my yard but enjoy my 2nd floor deck looking down (feeling like a King) at the little folks.
The squirrels, rats, gophers, birds do drive me insane and so much pain.

Yes, I spend maybe $1,000 a year maintaining my pool. Yet, my grandkids love it. Can you swim Fernando? You have pool bias.

 

[ZZGAMAZZ]

By 2035 ???? lol.....

By "1984."

 

[ZZGAMAZZ]

Yes, I spend maybe $1,000 a year maintaining my pool. Yet, my grandkids love it. Can you swim Fernando? You have pool bias.

Aquatically-challenged!!!

By the way, how about we collaborate on an acronym for the contemporary term "woke," e.g.

Workers
Of
Known
Emasculation

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

Example some like to live next to a Church. I don't.

heathen Prolly don't like schools either "get off my lawn" too.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

they are not on the market for long and they are almost always FSBO

City folk don't understand how much property in rural areas changes hands via private treaty, auction, or sold by brokers who are not part of an MLS.

 

[ZZGAMAZZ]

I believe they are looking for that when subjective language is used, tht it be given a context. ( its use is not outright banned)

You gave the context above, but perhaps did not inlcude it in the report. I would have said the properties are in demand rather than sought after. But to use your verbiage-

"X property is sought after in the market area because it is larger than a typical lot, consisting of # acreage. There are few similar acreage lots available due to built-out density, with only 1 or 2 sales a year and no listings found; the majority of the sales are sold FSBO , with less than a week DOM, and were not listed on MLS."

JG, IMO your perspective is spot-on, but that seems to imply that the offensive language refers to use of the colloquialism "sought after." Isn't that a very slippy slope leading to censorship? Not just that but 90% of every report I ever reviewed reflect the literacy of a elementary school student.

 

[J Grant]

JG, IMO your perspective is spot-on, but that seems to imply that the offensive language refers to use of the colloquialism "sought after." Isn't that a very slippy slope leading to censorship? Not just that but 90% of every report I ever reviewed reflect the literacy of a elementary school student.

In a profession, we put aside our personal lives and feelings about censorship -

Professions have a verbiage they use - legal terminology, medical terminology, appraisers. Amongst themselves, doctors or lawyers might trash talk their clients or patients, but in briefs and giving a diagnosis or in a court, they use professional language -it is not censorship.

RE agents have their own language, which imo can influence appraisers - emotions and every description is exaggerated. That said, I think some of the "banned words " for being subjective are inane, such as higher or lower or average. These are commonly understood words, and since the sales companion approach COMPARES properties, comparative terms are needed - this price was higher than that price, this home's condition was average, and this home's condition was good. Banning /requiring a context for such terms puts an unnecessary burden on appraisers on top of added scope creep and minutae they keep adding (while maintaining a tight turn time- it cumulatively adds hours of time nit-picking for nonsense)