Nine Notes on Residential Real Estate

David Merkel submits:

I don’t really have one unified article type when I write here. Sometimes I have a really strong conviction about something, and then it flows. At other times, I gather data, do an analysis, and come up with a way of motivating it. Then there are the Seven, Eight, Ten, Twelve, Fifteen, Twenty Points/Notes/Comments articles. Today’s piece is one of those.

(An aside — the numbers stem from a comment from an editor of a Canadian business publication — he told me that certain numbers grab people’s attention more. True? Not sure. I do know that one of my editors at RealMoney felt that some of my quirky titles lost readership. Even today, my editor at SA freely revises my titles, sometimes making something an emphasis that I had not intended. Whatever; she titles better than me. What intrigues me is that other sites sometimes pick up her title, not mine, even when they link directly to my blog.)

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