Or, or, Loop Reporter becomes media darling in 4 easy steps.

It all began with Timothy Geithner selling his house. Loop News reporter Maura Carlin thought to ask Loop Real Estate reporter Debbie Meiliken if  the sales price on the Treasury Secretary's Larchmont home was an indicator of where he thought the economy was headed. 

"Who is Timothy Geithner?" she asked.

She researched, and we posted the story .

The next day, our piece was picked up by the Associated Press. Many people saw it in the Journal News, but it was written by the AP. From there, a headline in the New York Post screamed, "For Sale Sign at Geithner's ." And everyone was quoting Debbie (an agent at Keller Williams in White Plains), who was telling the world the house was priced competitively. Larchmont real estate agents weren't pleased. So what did she do? She went on Fox News.

Another round this month: Geithner decides to rent.  Always at the cutting edge, theLoop doesn't think it's much of a story. Then I read it in the San Jose Mercury News.

By now, Debbie is in the rolodex of every assignment editor in New York. The New York Times interviewed her last week about how she uses the internet to market her property listings and herself.

Does it end with The New York Times? Apparently not. Tuesday, The Daily Show's John Oliver  was in Debbie's office, asking questions like, "Why is Larchmont different than the rest of America?"

A Daily Show video crew will reportedly be in Larchmont in the next few days. They want to talk to her about foreclosures.They want to talk about Larchmont. They will be touring a house on the market in the Murray Avenue school district whose asking price is $1,350,000.

Maybe Tim Geithner knows if it's priced to sell.

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