narketing nightmare. marketing opportunity
Posted by admin on August 19th, 2009
Does anyone care that 3 million foreclosed homes translates to 7 million men, women, children (and their dogs, cats, parakeets, etc.) forced out of their homes, sometimes with a gun-toting sheriff nearby to ensure a “peaceful” departure?
Add their friends and associates and you have at least 10-20 million upset, hurt, angry, disenchanted people. What is this carnage going to do to America’s working families? What is this going to do to this country’s work ethic? Work for what? (The displaced homeowners WERE working families or they would not have been able to purchase homes in the first place.)
Financier Warren Buffet, in talking about our current economy and foreclosures said, “This is war.” Indeed.
This is NOT about empty houses waiting to be re-sold. It is about millions of U.S. citizens being thrown into the streets. A Marin County, California, Supervisor said that because of these losses, more than 1,000 children are sleeping in cars and their parents, unaccustomed to asking for assistance, are too embarrassed to say anything to anyone. If they did tell anyone, they stand to lose their children also as they are unable to providing housing for them.
Why aren’t the one million members of the National Association of Realtors screaming about the homes they sold being taken away from their former clients? Taxpayer dollars are sitting in some stimulus program somewhere; these dollars belong to the very people being evicted. These dollars are purportedly slated to help families STAY in homes. Why isn’t NAR or someone establishing systems to keep people in their homes? Surely, they could figure out how to profit from their “efforts.”
This is either a marketing nightmare or a marketing opportunity for NAR, Realtors®, lenders, etc. What is the matter with all of you? People you displaced will NOT forget. You hurt them. Some are elderly and frail and will not survive this displacement. The dream of living in the U.S. is to have one’s own home. Why aren’t you fighting for the people you sold homes to?
If you need proof of how long an injustice on our own soil lasts, travel around the Southern United States—they are still angry about the Civil War, which ended 144 years ago.
You can’t completely disrupt millions of lives and expect them to be “fine” shortly. Some will never recover. Why aren’t Realtors® marching on Washington? What is the matter with you people?
Tags: 10 million families evicted, foreclosure, war in the U.S.
