Market Conditions
May 13, 2009
This could be HUGE! Saving for the downpayment to buy a home can be one of the biggest struggles for those who have decent credit, provable income and little or no savings. “Zero Down” is […]
May 6, 2009
Late last year, with lots of fanfare and media coverage, Fannie Mae put a moratorium on new foreclosures. They said they wouldn’t initiate any new foreclosures during the moratorium. The moratorium ended on April 1st. […]
April 30, 2009
I’m really just starting to get back out to look at homes. I did write a few offers during the last 2 weeks, but we got out bid on EVERY SINGLE ONE. Almost every new listing […]
April 6, 2009
The world is insane. At least the banks are. They don’t get it AT ALL that there’s a difference between houses (all they look at is square footage); there’s a difference between streets (some are […]
February 22, 2009
I got this great note by email last night. I like getting notes like this, for a variety of reasons, as you’ll see. It prompted me to make a “marketing decision” that I’d been […]
January 9, 2009
 I’m a lot of things, but statistician isn’t one of them. The last two big posts I did “Four Secrets†and “How The Foreclosure And Lending Crisis Came To Be†didn’t have any statistics or […]
January 9, 2009
If you’re packing up and leaving Vegas in the next few months or a year, this won’t apply to you, but you’ll find it interesting. It might even tip the scales for you one way […]
January 8, 2009
For months now, I’ve been hearing CNBC talking heads talk about “Mark To Market” accounting rules and how they should be changed or repealed. None of them ever really explained to me what it means. […]
January 2, 2009
I get emails every morning telling me what’s newly listed, newly contracted or newly closed. I have an automatic search set up for almost every neighborhood that I pay attention to. The Marycrest – Crestview – Morning View […]