How coincidental that the area’s two dailies both did prominent Sunday features this week on the same successful, brash, Lamborghini-driving real estate agent who bills himself as “The Short Sale Kid.” It’s about foreclosures and same-day flips and lots of lawyers – all in the context of finding profit amid the housing bust. It’s legal and entrepreneurial and, according to some real estate professionals, fraught with red flags over transparency and ethics.
We won’t get any more specific and add to this guy’s publicity coup, but you can’t help wondering: Isn’t this an ironic variation on a theme that got us into this mess in the first place?