Feature Article #1
The Difference Between a Real Estate Recovery and Stopping The Flow of Blood
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!An interview with Chip Case, founder of the Case-Shiller Report, has a great obeservation of the housing market I thought I would share this morning.
“We have to distinguish between a recovery, and stopping the flow of blood,” clarified Case. [...]
Feature Article #2
Healthcare Bill has Provision That Punishes Small Builders
Imagine that every small business under 50 employees had to obey one set of rules. Then one group has to burden a greater cost while living under a separate rulebook. This is what the United States Senate has done to small builders with 5 or more employees.
In every other small business in America health insurance will have [...]
Feature Article #3
The Top 10 Least Happy States To Live In
Ever wonder why everyone around you is grumpy and mad? Check your zip code. A new study shows the levels of happiness by state. The New York metro area leads the way with New York as the most unhappiest state to live in followed by Connecticut and New Jersey.
The Northeast and the Midwest dominate the [...]
Feature Article #4
Need To Finance A Whorehouse, See ACORN For Advice
A conservative videographer and his girlfriend went to the Maryland and Washington DC ACORN offices acting as a pimp and a prostitute looking to finance a whorehouse with ACORN’s help. What is amazing at these 2 offices the counselors gave them advice on how to do so and fake the income and tax form requirements [...]
Feature Article #5
Why We Might See Another Housing Slowdown if FHA Loans Blow Up
When the mortgage companies were writing loans to anyone with a pulse, you rarely saw an FHA loan being written. Even in 2006 only 2.7 percent of loans were FHA.
But when credit tightened and lenders backed away a funny thing happened. FHA loans skyrocketed up to 23 percent in the second quarter of 2009. All is well [...]
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So you can not pay your mortgage and you sign up for the government mortgage relief plan. You get accepted and then come to find out that your credit scores take a huge hit.
The American Dream was to grow up, buy your own home in the suburbs with the white picket fence, and live happily ever after. But the dream and the modern reality are heading further and further apart. 16 percent of the population is now living in multigenerational households and that number is rising quickly. 
February was not a good month for new home sales. The weak economy and brutal weather contributed to the moribund numbers on new housing starts. The numbers are expected to drop from last years terrible February and this years weak January.
The government officials remind me of the parade scene in Animal House where the Kevin Bacon character is trying to do crowd control? “Remain Calm, All is Well!” Washington and the NAHB are trying to put the best spin possible on the housing market yet is keeps slipping further and further into disarray.
If you thought the scams being run on Craigslist
You and I both know that this site has taken a tough look at the real estate market. I think it has been objective, but I am sure that others will disagree.
If you are working in the real estate business this sentence should scare the hell out of you.
I don’t know about you but I hate tornadoes. Seriously.
A sign that the big banks are focusing on core fundamentals and not esoteric investments happened today. Citigroup is selling their Citi Property Investors division to Apollo Management. The reasons for the sale are 2 fold. One, these investments are tanking. They are not performing and are a drag to the company. Better to divest them while the company is underwater and still has government investments in it. 