HP does battle with an unprofessional, disgusting and desperate realtor: Greg Swann at Bloodhound Blog

I figured the guy must be having hard times. Phoenix real estate is having an historic meltdown. Sales are down 40% from last year. Inventory is up hundreds of percents. People stupid enough to work for Bloodhound Realty are likely hungry, desperate and pissed.

So, as predicted, who do they blame? Themselves? Nah. The market? Nope. Supply and Demand? No way. The fundamentals? Nope.

They blame the messenger, and in this case HP and yours truly.

But as we've said all along, that's to be expected from the small minded set. We expect plenty of REIC trolls and we get 'em. Greg Swann himself is our sock puppet here at HP, hijacking posters identities and probably spending hours here trolling since he has nothing else to do in life now.

But, the unprofessional weirdo went overboard the other day, with this revolting posting on his supposedly professional site (WARNING - FOUL DISGUSTING LANGUAGE - SKIP AHEAD):

Finally, it might be nice if everyone would chip in to buy Keith at Housing Panic some lubricant. The poor sod has been Masturbating to Armageddon for months now, to no discernible result. It’s gotta chafe…

(FOUL LANGUAGE OVER - SAFE TO READ AGAIN)

Yeah, that's professional. That's the kind of language professionals should use. I hope he doesn't have children, parents or attend a church.

Criticism I can take but that was just disgusting, and beyond the pale. I don't know about you HP'ers but I'd never do business with (or even associate with) a person who used that language. But par for the course with realtors I guess. Lack of class, lack of education, lack of intelligence.

So HP'ers tipped me off to this, so instead of going right online and posting something even more vile against this disgusting hack Greg Swann, I decided I should put an end to it right there, take the high road, and offer a truce, but back it up with a penalty if he chose to go to war. Here's my private note I sent him:

I’ll give you a choice. 1) A war with the thousands of HP’ers so harsh and loud your practice and reputation in Arizona likely wouldn’t survive (beyond the damage you’re doing yourself) 2) A truce. Here’s your post that is way beyond the pale, and made you look like some unprofessional weirdo. I’d suggest this be pulled by the weekend.

Well, he chose war. Here's his post on his site:

Here is Keith from Housing Panic volunteering to “go easy on me”, to “pull his punches” — essentially to “take a dive”. Why? Because he can’t bear up to the ridicule his ridiculous behavior incites. Bring it on, Keith. I’m having a great year, and you haven’t laid a glove on me yet. I’ve never pulled a post and I never will. I’ve never failed to tell the perfect truth about you — and I never will.

So HP'ers (or flying monkeys as he calls you), if you chose to join ranks with me versus Bloodhound, here's what I suggest to start the war plan. Please add your strategies and tactics as well:

1) Fight his disinformation and REIC spin with the facts. And the facts are pretty simple - housing is crashing, we're in the beginning stages of a historic meltdown, and he and folks like him are on their way to losing their careers. How can a Phoenix realtor look you in the eye and say everything is fine when sales are off 40% from last year? 40%? And now it's even getting tragic in Phoenix.

2) Flame away, and hard, over at Bloodhound Blog. If he's gonna troll here, feel free to hit 'em there. I know I'm helping him drive traffic to his site, but hopefully anyone thinking of buying a home from this disgusting unprofessional creep thinks twice about it after visiting his blog.

3) Dig up postings, articles and quotes from Greg Swann for all to see. Where he admits having unlicensed or out of work realtors working for him. Where he tells people there is no housing bubble. That sort of thing.

4) Here are his meager listings. I'm sure these homedebtors would like to know the type of unprofessional and revolting man representing them.

At the end of the day, I feel sorry for him. A desperate and disgusting man, losing his profession along with all professional respect. He's lost mine for sure.