If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!There are more shady and scuzzy mortgage brokers than there are shady and scuzy Realtors.  This is a fact.  There are a lot of reasons why–while it’s easy to get your real estate license, it’s dead simple to get […]

Everyone seems to be wagging their fingers right now at the banks for not learning the lessons of the S&L crisis in the 1980’s. 
Oh, Contraire.  As the Becker-Posner blog points out,  the banks DID learn lessons from the S+L crisis.  A grossly abbreviated summary:  thrifts and S&L’s made spectacularly bad loans, betting big on […]

I have my feed reader down to a few hundred(!) items.  I’ve finally done what Athol suggests, and that’s to create a ghetto for feeds that add a little less fun to my day.
Anyway:  
Declining Markets-  We learn from Shailesh that appraisers can deem a market declining.  When that happens, I want MY BUYERS to […]