Real Estate Poker: Moving All In Against the Chip Leaders - 02/22/10 11:25 AM
It’s a daunting task.  Settled in around the bargaining table, you see nothing but pros, chips stacked to the ceiling.  Looking down at your comparatively meager stack, you’re tired of getting bullied out of hands.  Offer after offer you submit, only to fold under the check-raises from predators with pockets the depth of the Mariana Trench sewn into their five thousand dollar suits.  You are being methodically ground out of the main event.Welcome to the Scottsdale Real Estate Market / World Series of Poker that is 2010.  The buy-in may be cheaper, but the odds haven’t been longer since 2005.  Why’s … (9 comments)

The Real Estate Investor: Bacterium or Probiotic? - 02/17/10 10:02 AM
Investor. 
The word alone inspires a host of reactions that run the full gamut between antipathy and, well, slightly lesser antipathy, depending on the audience. 

Image From the Hubbel Telescope of Investors Invading Local Real Estate Market
 
As any semi-interested news watcher and industry blog reader can attest, the Real Estate investor is the greatest scourge to befall our fragile ecosystem since polybutylene plumbing.  What, with the housing supply lines ill-equipped to handle the artificial demand, our flimsy pipes swell and burst when the pump and dump investment surge strikes a hapless market.  Aside from the banks who flooded … (72 comments)

Can I Be of Assistance to Your Assistant? Not So Much. - 02/11/10 11:16 AM

We are all busy. Whether the responsibilities that overwhelm us are professional, personal or, most commonly, a combination of the two, who hasn’t lamented the lack of a clone for accomplishing the myriad tasks that 21st century living heaps upon us?  There are certainly days when I’d give my eyeteeth for an hour in the lab with the scientists who cloned Dolly the sheep.  Here’s my blood sample, now how soon can I get Paulie 2000 licensed by the Arizona Department of Real Estate?Sharing the overscheduled and understaffed burden with the rest of society at large, one can’t help but … (16 comments)

What We Do - 02/10/10 09:05 PM
You have something to say, some timely tidbit to impart, but don’t relish the specter of an ensuing dialogue.  You’re not interested in the entanglements of conversation, what with the awkward pauses, opinions other than your own and … gulp … small talk.    Too much commitment.  What you want is a one line fling.<<Tell them 256k firm>>A one-way communiqué is a powerful thing.  Authoritarian in nature, the modern day smoke signal of the text message is the chain of command envy of parents and military command alike.  Raw, unladen directive.  Dig it.<<258K.  No home warranty>>Who needs a tete a tete when … (14 comments)

 
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