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Translation: Salesgoodspeakian to English
It may not come as a shock to you, but loan officers, along with many other salesfolk, speak a different language than the rest of the population. What will probably annoy you, however, is the number of times they'll say...
Top Twelve Things That Help You Buy Property At A Bargain Price
Quite a while ago, I wrote Top Ten Reasons You Bought The Wrong House and Top Ten Reasons Your Home Isn't Selling. In that vein, I'm going to write a list of the most important things when you're shopping for...
When Selling, ALWAYS Be Willing to Show Your Property
I went out looking at properties for clients. From the showing attitudes I got, you'd think it was still 2003 and sellers were lords of the earth, not in a buyer's market where competition for buyers is fierce. One wanted...
"All of the Good Properties Get Offers So Fast!"
That's way up there on the list of complaints buyer's agents get. Probably number one, definitely no lower than number three, and it's only going to get worse when the markets recover. There's really only one honest response: "Well,...
Top Ten Reasons You Bought The Wrong House
A while ago, I wrote Top Ten Reasons Your Home Isn't Selling. It was well received so I thought I'd take it from the buyer's perspective. Once again, I'll try to inject as much humor as I can. And...
Top Ten Reasons Your House Isn't Selling
No, I never was a David Letterman watcher, for reasons having to do with turning into a pumpkin before his show started. I'm going to treat it a little more seriously than he did, as this is a serious...
You're Not Arguing Science, You're Preaching Religion
Last week, I followed the Facebook page of an author I once used to respect. After three days where literally every post - roughly 10-12 - had lengthy screeds against those of differing political persuasion, I dropped him. If...
Top Twelve Things That Help You Buy a Bargain Property
Quite a while ago, I wrote Top Ten Reasons You Bought The Wrong House and Top Ten Reasons Your Home Isn't Selling. In that vein, I'm going to write a list of the most important things when you're shopping for...
Links and Minifeatures 2009 02 20 Friday
I love this story: Man steals burglars' car as they try to rob his home >Rosario was greeted with high-fives from responding deputies That's resourceful. Somebody needs to offer that man a job (he just got laid off). I'll...
Links and Minifeatures 2009 01 27
Carnival of Personal Finance Carnival of Real Estate ********** Obama is sounding an awful lot like Bush. At least in some contexts. Even John Stewart has noticed. ********** The Return of Carterism? Among the first duties of the Obama...
Links and Minifeatures 2008 10 31 Friday (Happy Halloween!)
Sitting here waiting for trick or treaters while the wife takes our own out: ********** News so twisted it takes Scrappleface to make sense of it: McCain Thanks L.A. Times for Hiding Obama Video Q and O has the non-humorous...
Links and Minifeatures 2008 10 02 Thursday
Just looked at my site traffic for the past month, and I have a new one day record - at least since the hosting changeover - of 4759 from September 12th. Thank you all for stopping by. ********** Journalism is...
Links and Minifeatures 2008 09 12 Friday
FYI: I am now also writing at Mortgages Unzipped, a Zillow blog. It launched yesterday. ********** I specifically decided that I wasn't going to write anything specifically September 11th related. I've said what I have to say. Nothing has changed...
Links and Minifeatures 2008 09 04 Thursday
Neighborhoods of La Mesa: Normal Avenue For that matter, Neighborhoods of La Mesa: Summit Hill ********** Sarah Palin vs. Barack Obama via Q and O, this article is humorous, but also pretty much a fair comparison between the two:...
Consumer Focused Carnival of Real Estate
August 31st, 2008 The guidelines for this carnival. Last time, I said I needed to average twelve entries from the first two levels to return the carnival to every two weeks. This was not a cue to send or submit...
Consumer Focused Carnival of Real Estate
July 30th, 2008 The guidelines for this carnival. As always, I arranged the entries that met guidelines into three levels, based upon originality, usefulness to the consumer, and how much thought and effort and research went into an entry. STRONGLY...
Links and Minifeatures 2008 07 14 (Monday)
Professor Bainbridge has about the sanest response to Fannie and Freddie troubles I've seen. ********** A minor miracle has happened: The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has filed genocide charges against Sudan's President. Not that it hasn't been...
Consumer Focused Carnival of Real Estate
July 2nd, 2008 The guidelines for this carnival. As always, I arranged the entries that met guidelines into three levels, based upon originality, usefulness to the consumer, and how much thought and effort and research went into an entry. Folks,...
Top Ten Reasons You Bought The Wrong House
About a month ago, I wrote Top Ten Reasons Your Home Isn't Selling. It was well received so I thought I'd take it from the buyer's perspective. Once again, I'll try to inject as much humor as I can....
Links and Minifeatures 2008 06 19 Thursday (Three Years!)
Cavalcade of Risk ********** Do The Right Thing (for everybody) ********** UC Berkeley professor John Yoo on the Boumediene decision ********** September 10th thinking and how well it's worked for us so far. ********** Countrywide mortgage and conflicts of...
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