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Update to the earlier post:  “I love Paris Hilton”  On my way in to the office today every and I MEAN EVERY news channel was covering her squad car ride to the courthouse, kinda reminiscent of OJ’s bronco chase of years past.  Her face was on every news crawler and her name on the radio.  You can’t buy that kind of coverage.  For the people that hate hilton… well they’ll still hate her, but for her fans… she is now a goddess, a martyr.   Her little book about her ordeal will be a best seller and she’ll be on Larry King after this talking about what she has learned, and how her life has been changed by this experience.  That sucking sound your hearing is her…  sucking the money out of your kid’s piggy banks..

That sassy hotel heiress is out of the pokey after serving just 5 days of her 23 day sentence for a probation violation.  Its reported that she was let out because she was sick…  I wonder if former Homestore Inc. CEO Stuart Wolff, is feeling kind of sick right now??

What does Paris have to do with real estate… well I was justing thinking of the parallels between Paris and Redfin… everyone hates them but their are always in the news…

What did Oscar Wilde  say the “only bad press is no press” or something like that.  Its funny how many times I see the word “Redfin” out there on traditional real estates blogs… I wonder if they realize they are doing them a favor?  Google the word “Redfin” and your get about half a million entries…  now thats a long way from Paris’s 50,000,000, but it means that people are talking about them and it is given Glenn, et al the opportunity to open a dialog with the consumer and the real estate community.

Sometimes pissing people off gets you more notoriety then making them happy