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What is my "agenda"?
What is my "agenda"?  When I state that it appears that there are close to 150k active foreclosures in the Tampa Bay real estate market. (Hillsboro, Pinellas, Pasco and Hernando counties)
Statistics are made to be slanted depending on what one is "selling".  Everyone who writes, especially bloggers and other journalists and other salesmen like you and me, have agendas.  This is the way to read the news and advertisements...what does the writer want us to do and think?
Such as..."has the market bottomed"?  And, whether you should wait to buy or sell among many other questions.
RealtyTrac, a subscription service primarily for consumers who are interested distressed properties, publish a lot of statistical data on foreclosure trends but also show "opportunities" as on specific properties.  As a professional in the business, I ignore the "opportunities" as it tends to be very dated.  However, their statistical work is the fodder for many blogs and articles that write about these trends and it is very helpful in that area.
In 2009 there were 62,719 new foreclosure judicial procedures filed in Tampa Bay (4016 in December of 2009).  In 2008 there were 53,630 filed...most still in the pre-foreclosure status (still in the court ... more

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