This is an open invitation to representatives of the Irvine Company to come to the IHB. We want you to be part of our community.

We know you guys read the blog and the forums, and some of you even participate without revealing who you are. It is time the elephant quit hiding in the room. Come out and join us.

Your customers want to know you. They want to know what you are doing and why you are doing it. It affects your customers; it affects us.

We are your customers. We buy your houses, rent your apartments and shop at your shopping centers. When you set out to create a great community, you did it for us. We know what we like and what we don’t like, and here we talk about it.

This is an opportunity for you. Come to the blog and our forums and participate. Identify yourselves as who you are. Don’t try to disguise that you may have a bias or you will eventually get caught and it will be worse. If you speak the truth with authenticity, people will accept that you may be biased, but your information is good and truthful. People are here for good information.

We talk about what you do, and we speculate because we have no other sources of information. If you are not participating in our conversations, or if we do not know who you are, you cannot correct bad information when it gets presented. It is one thing to be damned for who you are, but it is another to be damned for who you are not. Talk to us. Give us good information, and we will be a happier community.

We also provide you a great mechanism for getting feedback directly from your customers and your potential customers. You can go pay for market data and studies, or you could ask questions directly to your customers for free in our forums. People will respond. Sometimes we get so bored that we start silly threads that are the online version of chit chat. If you give us something to talk about, it will be welcomed.

I am sincere in this invitation. No tricks. No agenda. Just an invitation for you to come join our community and make it better.

I also invite each member of our community to be open to anyone from The Irvine Company who identifies themselves on the blog or the forums. Call the BS, but embrace the truth.

If you want to contact us. I can be reached at irvinerenter@irvinehousingblog.com and Zovall can be reached at zovall@irvinehousingblog.com. We look forward to hearing from you.