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2010
Completion date 2012!!!!! For what you may ask? MINI FENWAY! Let the fun begin. Yesterday I was reading an article, complete with some architectural drawings, by Thomas Grillo on BostonHerald.com. It was about the building of the new statium for the best team in baseball. That would be the Boston...
02/27/2010
Okay let's start with the latter first. Actually CNNMoney.com's reporter Tami Luhby reported yesterday that the current unemployment rate stood at 9.7%. By default that means that the Employed rate is 90.3%, right? It does have to mean that, doesn't it? or is there a third category? Now back to t...
02/27/2010
BUT NOTHING!!!!! The economy grew 5.9% period! That's the facts, Jack! It may be, and will be mentioned that that growth came after a 2.2% increase in the 3rd quarter. Now for all of you naysayers, quickly click out of the post, and go immediately to Constantly Negative News, also known as CNN fo...
02/26/2010
What kind of question is that? Do you even think about such things? Well, maybe you should, or maybe you just shouldn't bother. "You are the measurer of your success...only you truly determine if you're successful or not." These are the words of Jeff Probst in March's issue of "Success Magazine."...
02/22/2010
That's not exactly as THEY reported it, but then again it is. Bloomberg.com reported that the MBA says that the delinquency rate for mortgage loans fell to 9.47%. Doing the math that means 90.57% are current, which in mortgage lingo is the opposite of deliquent. These numbers refect the current n...
02/19/2010
This is a Good One! St. Petersburg Times staff writer , James Thorner, reports on February 5th that an unnamed homeowner, my discretion, is suing Wachovia Bank for issuing a defective mortgage product. Let it be said and made perfectly clear that Wachovia, especially with its purchase of World Sa...
02/18/2010
Okay, we all know what firm believers our elected officials are in education and licensing. Realtors need it, mortgage lenders/brokers need it, for some reason bankers don't need it, or so our politicians think. Hmmm, well that banker thing, that's another topic, for another time. Now here's my p...
02/17/2010
So do you? Talk to yourself that is? Here's a couple of things that may be okay to tell yourself, or not, you decide. I really do think that it's okay to tell yourself that you want to be the best, or even that you are the best. I personally don't see how that can hurt. It'll probably help you to...
02/17/2010
Enough is Enough! It's time to stop dwelling on the sins of the past, and Focus on the solutions! There is no doubt that there was an abundance of mistakes made in the real estate arena over the last 5-10 years. Some unintentional, some intentional, yes there was fraud and there still is, and unf...
02/12/2010
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That'll be a long, long, loooooooooooooong wait! We we're sold "hope" and "change" by the new guys. Well a year plus later many are still hoping, but we have had changes. Let me see; more foreclosures higher unemployment failed modification programs I fail to see where much has changed though in ...
02/10/2010
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