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Active Rain Year in Review: How Did our AR 2008 Predictions Do?

What fun to wrap up the year with a review of some our "Active Rain Predictions for 2008" Those AR members that participated at the end of 2007 looked at the coming year from a variety of angles. Some like AR's own Matt Heaton were very serious, others like Manhattan Broker extraordinaire Mitch Hall could not resist delighting us with a "tongue in cheek" perspective, and of course we had the usual "off the wall" characters, (can you spell "Carnac" ) doing their thing!

Have fun reading through! I think you will be amazed at the accuracy of some of these, especially Matt and Lenn Harley, and totally entertained by the off beat humor of the not so serious AR prognosticators!

Active Rain 2008 Predictions in Review

"Taking It Serious Predictions"

Market and economic predictions for the new year

Matt Heaton
Bothell , WA
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PREDICTIONS FOR THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY IN 2008

Lenn Harley
Rockville , MD
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My predictions for 2008

Rob Arnold
Altamonte Springs , FL
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Team DiMuria Nostradamus Predictions for 2008

Team DiMuria
Katy , TX
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No Miss Cleo Here......Midori's Predictions for 2008....Let's See If I Can Quit My Day Job Next Year!

Midori Miller
Daytona Beach , FL
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Spinning Wheels and 2008 Real Estate Predictions

Jan Wood
Gallatin , TN
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"Tongue in Cheek Predictions"

2008 Real Estate / Tech Predictions

Jonathan Washburn
Seattle , WA
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2008 Predictions - Happy New Year!

Mitchell Hall - Manhattan, NY
Manhattan , NY
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Activefranus...Fearless Fran's Forecast For Further Future Faultfinders!

Fran 'The Title Man' Gaspari
Limerick , PA
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It's RAINING 2008 PREDICITONS in POETRY!

Ginger & Roger Sala
Wilmington, NC
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Predictions for 2008

Missy Caulk-
Ann Arbor , MI
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TOP TWELVE REAL ESTATE PREDICTIONS FOR 2008

Obeoman Steven Stearns
Milwaukee , WI
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The World According to WooHoo Sally (2008 Predictions)

Celeste "SALLY" Cheeseman
Mililani , HI
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"Off The Wall Predictions"

Channeling Nostradamus-Predictions for 2008

Melina Tomson
Salem , OR
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My 2008 Predictions

Simon Conway
Orlando , FL
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Predictions for 2008

ARDELL DellaLoggia
Seattle , WA
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CARNAC and so it began.........

Linda Davis
Gales Ferry , CT
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Happy 2009 Everyone!

Ginger & Roger

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Posted by Wilmington NC Real Estate & Relocation~ Ginger & Roger Sala on 12/31/2008 03:15 PM

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37 Comments on Active Rain Year in Review: How Did our AR 2008 Predictions Do?

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I read Matt's predictions a few days ago. It was amazing how close he got.

What a great idea to post these together for folks who had not joined Activerain before this year. It was a fun project to participate in. I'll look back at some of them and see who said was as my memory is not that good. LOL I did read Matt's and Lenn's this week and they were almost perfect.

Ginger~ WOW!!! You must have spent hours on this post! Thanks so much for the links ..And, now I am off to do some serious "reviewing"...The VERY BEST to YOU and Your Family in 2009!

Hi Bill, When researching this post, I was blown away by Matt's predictions! I wonder if he can give us a few good stock tips!

I am definitely going to check this out. I guess my 2008 is not over. Thank you very much for stopping by and making a comment on my posts. Happy New Year to you. Have a safe and prosperous 2009. Great post.

Ginger I remember reading some of those blogs when they wrote them, so it might be fun to go back and read them again.

This is awesome, I am going back through all these and reading them to determine who was the most accurate? What a great post, thanks! Happy New Year to you and Roger. :-)

Thanks guys. I plan to do predictions for 2009 tomorrow. It's taking some thought.

I'm sorry to say, I hadn't yet discovered AR at the time these would have originally been posted - - I found them most interesting . . . . This is a great service you have provided putting them all together for us to look at in the rear view mirror. Happy New Year everyone!

Ginger & Roger, Thanks for the shout out!!! Happy New Year! Thanks, Fran

Ginger and Roger, these are fun reading! Don't forget this one: Deb's "Can You Disagree?" predictions for the year 2008!

Fun, Happy New Year! Deb

What a wonderful (and time consuming) line up you gave us...Thank you! I will have to go and read the predictions I've missed. Happy New Year!

Normally I might be offended at being called "off the wall" but you put me in a category with Ardell and Carnac, so I am honored.

Maybe I should change my tagline to Melina Tomson, An Off The Wall Agent for Off the Wall Times...

I had planned to do 2009 predictions but I'm worried I'll fall into the "needs to go the insane asylum" category next year...Oh well...

Seriously though...thanks for putting this together.

Hi Ginger - this took some time to put together, and it does make for some interesting reading to see how close some of these predictions came. Some were right on the money!

Happy New Year to you, and thank you so much for the message on Twitter - that means so much to me.

Ann

It is very interesting to go back and read the predictions of the past year and see what has happened.

What fun it is to see these predictions and see what how it turns out. Some are downright funny.

JAN

Missy, Lenn and Matt were amazing!

janeAnne, Thank you. A wonderful 2009 to you!

Lanre, Thanks or stopping by. It was a pleasure to meet youon AR today. Happy New Year!

George, Yes it was such fun to go through!

Lenn, We'll be looking forward to your 2009 predictions. Hope there's some good news in there somewhere!

So much information all the time. I have to take it one day at a time, one call at a time, one deal at a time. 2009 signals the end of "multitaksing: Expect a little. Love alot

Ginger, thank you for putting this list together! I will come back and read them all before I do my 2009 predictions! Happy New Year!

That is a lot of predictions that went out for 2008 ! Some great reading - thanks for sharing !!! Now we all can provide some predictions for 2009 as well !!!

I like the predictions wrap-up. They do make for interesting reading. Not predicting but we need a housing bottom 2009. Happy New Year...... . . . . .

I'm thnking about how long it must have taken you to put that post together. Did you have to save and upload all of the member photos?

Hi Ginger & Roger, I remember some of those posts, how fun to look back at them now! Happy New Year! :)

Ginger, Thank you for putting together this post and including mine. It is the first thing I've read in 2009. I just read and enjoyed all of them. I'm retiring my crystal ball. I think my listing presentation for sellers in 2009 should be "I have comps but your guess is as good as mine". lol

I wish you and Roger all the best in 2009.

Not to pooh-pooh any excitement for 2009, but I think the reality of things to come is in the value of the dollar, which to my dismay, matt missed. The dollar is declining on the world scale daily. The mid-east oil companies will not even accept the dollar in payment anymore. My prediction for 2009?? I think the government's effort to shore up the housing market will cause a short-term flurry and we had all better work as hard as we can during that time. Sadly, I think we will see the Euro become the standard of payment world-wide. Things are moving so rapidly in that direction. My point to all of this is to encourage all of us to SHIFT (Gary Keller) with the market as much as we possibly can. We need to think outside the box of additional ways to increase our business and our earnings. We need to be aware of what is going on with our government and other world governments... The saying is that LUCK is when prepardness meets opportunity. I wish everyone good luck for 2009!

Thank you for putting this together. I am expecting good news for this year. I am looking for Lenns... gotta go see how accurate these were.

Good info. Makes me want to get my predictions for the upcoming year down on paper. Mortgage rates go, go, go.

Brad, Thanks so much! A Blessed New Year to you & your family!

Terry, Nice to meet you! Have a wonderful 2009!

Fran, Your post was a riot~ Happy New Year to you!

JAN

Deb, Sorry I missed your blog. Thanks for providing the link. Happy New Year!

Carole, Enjoy catching up it will be fun! Happy New Year to ya!

Melina, You are to funny! Happy New Year!

Ann, Wish I could have got you on the phone. I am not much of a phone gabber, but felt inspired to call

Matt absolutely nailed it. Pretty impressive!

Thank you for taking the time to compile these posts. I will enjoy reading them over.

JAN

H WHAT A GREAT IDEA ,this is better then gleam and doom as some much off the stuff we are hearing on the TV now.have a better day.

JAN

A very happy and prosperous New Year to you as well..... Dan

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