Turn off FOX news and CNN, put down the liberal newspapers they will rot your brain. The market ebbs and flows with the times. We have had 12 recessions and have recovered from all of them. We all got fat and lazy and have lost our direction, greed, would be speculators, (flippers) and shifty lenders have tanked our economy. All bloated inventory is the result of our not paying attention...(read more)
Many Americans are upset the the Feds steped in and helped Bear Sterns and are concerned on how morttgage bailout will be distributed and qualified. Few taxpayers like to hear talk about "bailouts," especially as many tighten their own belts to deal with rising energy and food prices and falling values for their homes or stock investments.
Questions of fairness are sure to figure in the..(read more)
Quite to the contrary I would say! I would like to dedicate this blog today to the negative idiots that are clogging up our news media, I am sick and tired of the people with little to no sense or experience commenting on the housing market and having the public forum to cast such negative drivel.
This is a buyers market for the history books and as a REALTOR this..(read more)
Happy 2008, Thankfully Congress got our house bill passed and a whole lot of loans that were set to adjust are frozen. The banks who made these crap loans for people that were only done to benefit the banks are being held off and at bay by our government wearing shiny armor thank you Congress! Lawsuits by the banks are skyrocketing, good luck banks, I am sure you will find a sympathetic jury,..(read more)
Happy Holidays or Happy Halloween? Like you most people are scared of the market and rightfully so. I for one am half glad that this market is the way it is, it has and will weed out all the crooked lenders, Realtors and title companies from the market place and thank God for that.
The sub-prime market only makes up 15% of the overall market and more than half of the foreclosures..(read more)
I asked my friend Dr. Doom what his thoughts on the market were and it's all gloom to him, but that is what he is all about and what we pay him to say. The negative will always have an audience because we all have the tendency to despair, especially when money gets tighter, lending money to consumers gets more expensive and we feel the grip around our collective throats of a credit..(read more)
The first thing to remember is your house is an inanimate object with value, do not let your emotional attachment get in the way of your business decision to sell. It is imperative you price it right, and that it shows well. Paint is the easiest and most dramatic step, but cleanliness is also paramount to your success. You can usually keep a buyers attention if you are lucky for several minutes, if..(read more)
I love a hot buyers market, much like my love for our hot Arizona sun, this is another market for the history books! Inventory is plentiful, builders are rolling over so you can rub their scary pit bull bellies. Owners are realizing their house isn't worth the ten million dollars they thought it was worth because of the tile floor they put in themselves. Banks..(read more)
Is anyone but me sick of the all the media and nay sayers stomping on the housing market? Every person i meet asks the same thing, "whats going on with this market?" I practically have to pull some clients in from the window ledge at times because they let themselves get all worked up for nothing by some negative story teller or the bad information..(read more)
Ahoy Homeowners! I like many Americans, want to get better loan terms on my mortgage yes I know who doesn't? Make no mistake though, the banks are experts at making themselves and their investors money. Get past that fact and you are half way home. Banks once drunk with power and greed made a nice living from the ignorant bliss that buyers and homeowners..(read more)
