I don't even know what to say about this except that it serves as a great example that silliness in the pursuit of political correctness knows no bounds - or in this case, knows no boundaries. So I'm spending my customary summer sojourn at my place in Telluride CO and this morning I'm greeted wit
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06/29/2010
$700 Million OK'd for California Homeowners! That's a headline that would reach and and grab you over your oatmeal, wouldn't it? It certainly caught my attention yesterday. Here's a new program (4 actually) designed to help homeowners avoid foreclosure and the Department of Treasury has just ap
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06/25/2010
Up until now about the only thing preventing millions of homeowners from strategically defaulting on their home was the moral dilemma many of them faced. With as many as 1/3 of the nations 45 million homeowners currently upside-down in their homes (owing more than they can sell it for), lenders f
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06/25/2010
Looking for something a little out of the ordinary to do tomorrow? Why don't you come on up to Telluride Colorado for the ski races? Yep, that's right. There's plenty of good snow this year and so the Lunar Cup ski races will be held as usual (well, almost as usual) up in the Savage basin above t
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06/25/2010
Thank heaven somebody is finally stepping up. We have been deluged with short sale scams in our market since short sales replaced REO's as our primary housing alternative almost a year ago. Many Realtors are also hiring these so-called expert negotiators because they are either too lazy or too in
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06/17/2010
I'm lovin' this. Our friends up at the Ventura County Association of Realtors had a hand in this. They've been very pro-active for years in fighting real estate fraud in their community and have worked hand-in-glove with their local District Attorney. Maybe now that Riverside County has a new Di
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06/17/2010
This past Saturday evening the Murrieta Chamber of Commerce held their 50th Anniversary Installation of Officers and Community Awards Event at Monteleone Meadows. In keeping with the 50's theme, I'm hoping somebody got a photo of my white sport coat with the obligatory pink carnation. With my mod
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06/14/2010
I've been at our mid-year CAR meetings in Sacramento this week so will have lots to post in the coming days. But I did want to share some phenomenal news with you that at this afternoons Board of Directors session we passed the motion which will have EVERY Realtor becoming an investor in our advo
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06/11/2010
Seems like only yesterday that you couldn't find a home in La Cresta for under $1,000,000. Actually it less than two years ago. You couldn't find a vacant lot for love nor money, improved horse properties were almost non-existent and commanded a premium if you could find one, spec homes were spro
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06/06/2010
Seems like only yesterday that you couldn't find a home in La Cresta for under $1,000,000. Actually it less than two years ago. You couldn't find a vacant lot for love nor money, improved horse properties were almost non-existent and commanded a premium if you could find one, spec homes were spro
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06/06/2010
