{"id":5035,"date":"2009-04-02T10:57:01","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T17:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=5035"},"modified":"2009-04-02T12:03:04","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T19:03:04","slug":"carlsbads-hunter-s-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=5035","title":{"rendered":"Carlsbad&#8217;s Hunter S. Thompson?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/kling.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/kling.jpeg','popup','width=500,height=328,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/kling-tm.jpg\" height=\"131\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Kling\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;ve read <em>Carlsbadistan<\/em> Realtor <strong>Jim Klinge&#8217;s <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bubbleinfo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bubbleinfo.com<\/a><\/strong> real estate blog in the past, but now a lot more people will after Klinge was written up in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-real-estate2-2009apr02,0,3496436.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong> as the &#8220;Hunter S. Thompson&#8221; of Real Estate.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rather than downplay the greed and excess that caused the region&#8217;s travails, he revels in exposing them. . . . He surveys the wreckage with a pocket video camera, shooting footage of vacant, once-pricey houses turned into eyesores, voiced over with his deadpan narration. Then he posts them on his website, at www.bubbleinfo.com. . . They&#8217;re shaky, noisy clips full of coarse images and language. . . &#8220;Would you spend a million dollars for that house?&#8221; he says in one video, showing a two-story, boxy wreck with the rushing sound of a freeway in the background.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Klinge&#8217;s direct approach reportedly allowed him to sell 43 homes last year, most of the customers coming from his blog. While we&#8217;re not going to agree with the HST reference, it is refreshing to see a Realtor who at least appears to be involved in the business of selling homes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-real-estate2-2009apr02,0,3496436.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve read Carlsbadistan Realtor Jim Klinge&#8217;s Bubbleinfo.com real estate blog in the past, but now a lot more people will after Klinge was written up in the LA Times as the &#8220;Hunter S. Thompson&#8221; of Real Estate. Rather than downplay the greed and excess that caused the region&#8217;s travails, he revels in exposing them. . [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5035"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5042,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions\/5042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}