I spent a lot of time going through posts from the last two years on this blog.

Over 200 posts about the economy, local real estate facts and trends, rants, you name it.

Really good stuff and I would bet if you go back you will find a lot of posts from 18-24 months ago that point out issues you are hearing about in the main stream media today.

Buddy Kane was one of the first to call MLS listing "content" and preach the value of this content to fellow brokers, Buddy pitched a book to publishers about the upcoming mortgage problem in 2001, no takers, they called it "hyperbolly".

Word On The Street, has typos, crazy rants, a lot of attitude and no fluff. But it takes guts to put this out there, and we put it out there to get people to think, to show we care, to stick up for the little guy.

Highlights have been many, we have been contacted by the legal counsil of one of the largest corporations in America to remove a blog that scolded his company for picking on one of our clients. We were right they admitted it and took care of our client. Total time to fix problem? 48 hours. It turns out that this and many Fortune 100 companies pay to people to surf the internet and look over RRS feeds for their names, copy right infrigment and problems. One of these employees found our blog and was upset they company they worked for would do such a thing. In four hours the email chain made it to the CEO's inbox, with in four hours the lawyers where calling, with in 48 a wronged homebuyer was made taken care of fairly.

We have written about some not so great things in an effort help people and taken a lot of heat for it, stuff the mass media in Flint would never touch. Unfortunately our predictions on these topics were correct, they have started investigations by authorities and regulators into the activities of these people and we have helped motivate them and helped them with fact finding.

We are finishing up some good investigative peices now, some are better than fiction. The problem is this is a small town, and a lot of the "bad guys" are not bad guys, a lot of people like them, they just made stupid decisions or at least uneducated ones. Tough call on whether to call them out to tell the story.

What is in the archives is great, it shows ChangingStreets.com cares and is not all fluff in an industry full of self serving puffery. We stand up for what is right, we are accountable to our actions and we call out those that are not. We also make very educated predictions that are historically pretty darn ahead of their time.

Take some time and check out the different catagories and archives.