Without a doubt the number of REO’s on the market are going to increase through 2013 according to John Prior who writes for MarketWire, a premier site for financial news. Ideally banks would rent back to underwater homeowners who can no longer afford their payment thereby improving the flow of dispossessed homeowners. The home affordable [...]
How to Use My Search Engines
Hello! You are at the first step for finding your dream home. Follow these simple instructions and you will find property right away on this map based search system. Print this page or in any case the search link will come up in a separate window so you can switch back and forth to practice. [...]
Weather Changin’ on the Economic Front
Weather is changing again and it isn’t just about Halloween. Its fall, no doubt about that with the last few 34 degree nights. Not sure what happened to the summer at all this year but it was a great year compared to 2010. Sales were brisk and a lot of people I know found jobs, [...]
Mortgage Relief or More Mess?
There has been a lot of talk about the new $20 billion bail out to address robo-signing and bank practices of the years before the market fell out from under us. This most recently off the press: Foreclosure settlement imminent bank sources say Will we be able to make a deal with the banks regarding [...]
Someone who was “upside down” but got right side up
Well as the ink on my last blog dries on the virtual page, I got this note and article from my friend Carl Reuter: Sandy: I wanted to thank you. I was about to default on my loan when I found out how underwater I was on my place and you were the one coaching [...]
My Life Raft for the American Economy
Since I’m on the subject of exploding oaks, I might as well start discussing the American economy. Last year we were 11.7 trillion dollars in debt. Where are we now? Going up — 13.53 million in debt. That is a scary number. The question I have to ask myself is where is the money going [...]
The Oak Story Continues
So the amusing speculation about why oaks explode when there in no rain or lightning still remains a mystery. So many things in life are. I am positive that the change of our beautiful 85 degree weather to 105 over night had something very much to do with it. Laila Zaccaraiah, my agent at Allstate, [...]
The Exploding Oak
While I was working at my desk yesterday signing a new listing, the giant oak outside my window exploded. There was a loud sound that you can imagine is the one written in the balloon over the cartoon guy that gets smacked on the head. “Crack” A hundred times louder. I ran outside to find [...]
California Dreaming of the Old Days
The other day I caught a clip from a movie shot in the 50′s in technicolor. It had hauntingly beautiful clips of the California I knew growing up. Images of waving fields of yellow mustard, trees heavy with luscious apricots, crashing waves on a pristine rocky Monterey Bay coastline and people strolling down tree lined [...]