As a former teacher, I've seen how bad things have become in the past decade, and it isn't going to get better any time soon.What's worse is that popular culture is embracing the misuse of words and the media propagates it as well.Its the dumbing down of American Society, and it is happening in front of our very eyes.

Take a bit to propagate the new image throughout the site.

Given all the marlaky that's propagated about real estate investing (e.g., rents of 1% will make you money, real estate never goes down) I'm surprised we don't hear more of this.The guy points a lot of the blame at the guru who sold him this approach.

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The "everyone needs a place to live", along with "they're not making any more" are two dangerous fallacies propagated by people with a vested interest in selling real estate or training.

We all know it exists, but no one knows where to look, fewer even try, and only small minority ever get that lucky.I think the "you need a mentor" propaganda is propagated online by the gurus that want to sell you access to themselves or some other product or service that lines their pockets.Bottom line: Very few people give away anything for free.

I've been doing the "Call me at [a future date and time] for a phone screening to weed out folks and I'm getting a TON of tire-kickers on Zillow (and their propagators) and craigslist.

This doesn't take into account the fact that MLS listings propagate out of thousands of potential buyers.

Furthermore, the city views people who engage in such practices as opportunists who simply propagate the problems faced by so many residents.  

Probably a bit different for us as we use management software and are a larger company so we post our ads through that (appfolio) and they syndicate out to X number of sites and then it propagates out from there.