Yogesh Karki's Blog

Buying a condominium unit can be more involved than buying a single family home. This is because you have to worry about both the unit itself and the condominium project as a whole. 10 Questions You Must Ask Before Purchasing A Condominium Unit To borrow from a famous phrase, not all condominiums...

If you've been hanging out here long enough, you'll relate to this one.  If you're a newbie to social media/social networking, see what your life will become in a couple of months. Just happened to run across this great video tonight and thought I'd share it with all of you. Enjoy:     Thank you ...

It's very rare or more likely never that I've posted a picture or chart without much explanation.  However, this chart showing the return on investment over the last decade requires very little commentary.  Granted... depending upon your timing, your return may be significantly different.  Howeve...

There were 1,017 homes sold in Fairfax County last month (November 2009). If you're buying or selling a home in the area, you want to know a breakdown of which price ranges are selling and how much negotiating room exists on these sales. The answers to these questions are in the charts: As you ca...

This is one of those posts where I wish I didn't have to write it, but felt it was so important to my readers that I would be remiss not to at least talk about it. Everyone out there probably knows somebody who is behind on their mortgage payments, looking for alternatives and likely also just fi...

In an article today in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, it was reported that it’s becoming commonplace for lenders to refuse to take title to some properties following foreclosure. Why would a bank bother to foreclose and then abandon the property? It’s simple economics. Many of the homes just are...

My in my last blog post a mid-year update to my 2009 market and economic predictions I got multiple comments about the economic threat of inflation or even hyper-inflation rearing it's ugly head. "It will be interesting to see how those TARP funds play out and what the aftermath will be.  My gues...