Cleveland Real Estate - is one of my Google Alerts, which I receive and review daily. Today I was frustrated with two articles, where Cleveland was mentioned. What a wrong image of the city!

The first one was about the World Press Photo Contest results. The winner is Anthony Suau with the picture of Cuyahoga County sheriff's deputy Robert Kole checking out a foreclosed home in Cleveland.

Honestly, the mess captured on this winning photo is not extraordinary for foreclosed homes. We the Realtors(R) see much worse houses than one which grabbed the attention of talented photographer and the judges of this contest. The only difference is that we do not carry the guns while previewing these homes for our investors buyers.

My frustration is so bad because too much left behind the scene. Yes, this picture reflects the war-like nature of the crisis. However, that's not the only face of today's Cleveland. It's too negative to be true.

Too much negativity will not help our economy. Too much negativity in reality means misleading. 

I would prefer the picture of the houses BEFORE and AFTER our enthusiastic investors save them to be the winners of any Photo contests. I would prefer the stories about the responsible owners and diligent borrowers who keep our neighborhoods safe and beautiful to win all the contests.

The other story was "America's most miserable cities" by Forbes.  You bet, Cleveland is there. One fact was true - indeed, we had the record 52 inches of snow  this year. Ask Clevelanders - are they miserable? I am not. I don't have time to be miserable. I am too busy helping people buy or sell homes in Cleveland.

Beautiful snow in Cleveland

First six weeks of 2009 showed a very good buyer's activity in Cleveland. I do not have official statistics yet but personal data reflects - I hope - the trend of 2009. All types of buyers were presented - first time buyer who purchased my listing in Richmond Heights: sellers who are moving to a bigger home in Twinsburg; another first time buyers who will enjoy their new home in Mentor; investors buying in Shaker Heights and Cleveland Heights;  tenants who rent in Lyndhurst and Beachwood

Although cash investors do not care about low interest rates and first time buyers' tax credit, all other buyers are very happy with them. Obviously, their decision to buy was not caused by these incentives. However, that's the best "side effect" of home buying which the buyers can entertain today!

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8 Comments on Cleveland Real Estate Alert. Unfair coincidence? Give us a break!

FEB
14
2009
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Svetlana, I hate negativity type stories. Don't feel bad about Cleveland, I think they lumped Dallas in there as well. Who are these people?

6:47pm • #1
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Gary - You are right. Chicago is number one on that list. Looks like these people learn about our cities from Google maps.

6:50pm • #2
FEB
15
2009
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Svetlana,

As a fellow buckeye I take offense to the list but thanks for including the article had to see if Columbus was on the list.....Hang in there and keep doing what you are doing to help shine a positive light on Cleveland.

5:32am • #3

Svetlana,

I read and saw both of your examples.  The forbes list was so misleading as it took specific items like traffic commmute and weather...  The picture was a good picture but not the poster for cleveland, I think that was a quick and incorrect judgement as a whole.

Sean

7:58am • #4
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Vanessa - thanks for commenting. The best thing about our profession is that we don't only do something to make things better but we also can broadcast about good trends. Hope, Real Estate market in Columbus is favorable for buyers and sellers and for those who work hard for them.

10:37am • #5
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Sean - I agree with you about the judgement. Regarding Forbes- yes, we know that we have real four seasons in Cleveland. That was just a coincedence that both these articles were in the same e-mail from Google. However, when it's too many co-incedental bad images we want to change the perspective. Thanks for reading and commenting on my post!

10:40am • #6
FEB
21
2009

I am not a fan of the media portrayng cities they don't live or work in everyday. My market is doing great, but out of towners think it is a buyers market here and they can expect falling prices. We are actually experiencing appreciating values, but people who move here can only see what the national news is saying. I know your frustration. Thanks for sharing.

4:14pm • #7
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Bert - That's exactly what we experience in some suburbs (not all unfortunately) of Greater Cleveland. We have a very good buyers' activity now - hope, it will be a great year for all of us and all of our neighborhoods. Thanks for commenting.

4:40pm • #8


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