Why do Real Estate agents continue to be blamed for the past market downfall?

Hate to break the news but it was not realtors who put the pen in your hand and told you to take on larger mortgages than you could afford.  

At some point, we all have to be grown up enough to admit we made mistakes and live up to them and move on.  

What you focus on expands.  if you focus on the past you will live in the past.  If you focus on the future, you can have a new one.  

Bob...we are easy targets.  I remember being blamed for the increase in the price of a home.

I've heard some blame banks, some blame government and some blame agents... I don't think any one sect is to blame, but I do think lots of fraud with a bad few in each industry contributed.

VB, it's human nature to blame some one else.  And, we are easy targets.

Good morning Bob,

Now hopefully some will look at the signs and be able to know; one way or another history repeats itself.

Make yourself a great day.

VB - I don't think it it right to blame someone else for losing their home to foreclosure. At the same time, I know of some agents who did everything they could do to sell a home, even if they knew the buyer couldn't afford it. Still not the agents fault in the end, but they didn't help matters.

Don take it personally VB. I have heard those same stories on our end that somehow its the fault of a broker or banker but no it couldnt be the people on Walls Street that created the actual flow of the capital and the relaxed to non existent guidelines that truly caused the bubble to burst with thousand and thousands of loans that wouldnt ever repay and that is what caused the collapse it has nothing to do with agents or anything else

VB, wouldn't it have been great if we could see into the future? Nobody knew this was going to be as deep and long as it has been, nobody...