Help me name my Metro Detroit Real Estate Blog

April 16, 2007 3:35 PM

Mefites, I need your collective witty-ness. I am writing a blog about Real estate, particularly in the Metro-detroit area. I am trying to come up with a witty title...

The market is pretty bad here in detroit right now. I don't want a name that will bum people out. I plan on having some editorial posts about the market or other real estate related things written by me and to link to a bunch of other articles. Also a post telling about each of my listings. I realize that writing is not in my wheelhouse so I wouldn't be opposed to poking fun at my lack of cleverness/creative writing skills in the title but I definitely want it to be real estate related. As you see I need your help.

posted by Bjkokenos to computers & internet (23 comments total)

Detroit Steal?
posted by matty at 3:49 PM on April 16, 2007

Detroit Hock City
posted by ill3 at 3:59 PM on April 16, 2007

Former metro Detroiter checking in. How about...

Playing off the "I live in the burbs, not in the city, thank god" theme:
"But Not Really Detroit"
"Not DETROIT Detroit"

Place name riffs:
"Grosse Detroit"
"Eight Mile to the Ex-Burbs"
"Livonia Lots, Warren Walkups, and Hamtramack Homes"
"W.O.W. Report" (Wayne/Oakland/Washtenaw)

Obvious:
"Autoburbia" or "Carburbia"

I'll keep kicking this around, see what else I can think of.
posted by peacecorn at 4:02 PM on April 16, 2007

*Groan Acres.
*Premises, Premises.
*Vacant Lots.
*On The Block.
*E-Dirt.
*Keepin' It Real Estate.
posted by Dizzy at 4:02 PM on April 16, 2007 [1 favorite]

what about something with HOMES (great lakes - huron ontario michigan erie superior)? Bringing you HOMES?

(I'd like to see it -- email username @ gmail.com if you don't want to post it).
posted by dpx.mfx at 4:10 PM on April 16, 2007

I like the Motor City / Motown idea, but the best I can come up with is : "Shackin' Up In Motown"
posted by Robert Angelo at 4:27 PM on April 16, 2007

Blog Full of Homes
posted by Mr. Gunn at 4:27 PM on April 16, 2007

Blog of Extraordinary Magnitude?
posted by Mr. Gunn at 4:28 PM on April 16, 2007

I guess "Uniform Resource Locator, Uniform Resource Locator, Uniform Resource Locator" is too cumbersome.
posted by adipocere at 4:37 PM on April 16, 2007 [1 favorite]

Cheaper Than A Car?
posted by katemonster at 4:44 PM on April 16, 2007

"Real Est8 Mile"
posted by nineRED at 4:55 PM on April 16, 2007 [1 favorite]

Some blue-sky thoughts to help you brainstorm:

Who's your audience? Is it local (what are people from Detroit called?) or national? If the former, you could use some local in-joke (example: the Dallas alternative weekly's editorial blog is called "Unfair Park," a riff on a local landmark called Fair Park).

What's the value proposition of your blog? Is it just going to be "Detroit guy writing about Detroit real estate"?

If you find a unique marketing angle for the site, you won't be stuck trying to come up with a quirky, not-yet-registered domain involving yet another riff on the city name (which will have you competing with every other local blog, including the foodies, the politicos, the businesses) and/or generic real estate lingo (which will put you up against every realtor in the country).

For example: Professor Pigginton's Econo-Almanac For the Landed Poor is located at pigginton.com, and is referred to around the web as "Pigginton." Unique to register, promotes his Victoriana look and feel, and no way anyone else is going to confuse him with "that other SoCal real estate blog I was looking at today."

I would think about naming and designing the blog around the content you know you can produce right away, not the success you assume the site will one day achieve (which is an all-too-common mistake, one I've been guilty of myself).

(p.s. am assuming you are not an agent trying to create a site for sales or listings.)
posted by pineapple at 5:16 PM on April 16, 2007

Real Detroit
411 on the 313
Motor Homes
posted by rob511 at 5:59 PM on April 16, 2007

I like several of these ideas so far. Thanks Guys!!
posted by Bjkokenos at 6:17 PM on April 16, 2007

Ablogolypse Now.
posted by The Straightener at 7:17 PM on April 16, 2007

Sorry, didn't see your no bummer clause (and couldn't resist my own devastating wit).
posted by The Straightener at 7:23 PM on April 16, 2007

Once you figure it out, send me the link and I'll include it on the largest list of real estate blogs in the universe (SL)
posted by growabrain at 7:55 PM on April 16, 2007

The "Ablogalypse" pun has been used before, and carries a degree of political baggage in certain circles. (Heh... from four years ago) It may not be something you want to be tarred with.
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 7:55 PM on April 16, 2007

ABC Detroit
Homeslice
E-troit
posted by nomad at 8:26 PM on April 16, 2007

If you're tallying votes Dizzy's Keepin' It Real Estate made me laugh.
posted by meech at 10:54 PM on April 16, 2007

The noun form of ‘witty’ is ‘wit.’
posted by Aidan Kehoe at 11:22 PM on April 16, 2007

You could name it after the Sufjan Stevens song: "Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Restore! Reconsider!)"
posted by Milkman Dan at 2:34 PM on April 17, 2007

I ended up going with "Keepin' It Real Estate"
posted by Bjkokenos at 7:07 AM on May 26, 2007