brokers: With Every Down, There Is An Up. Let's Get The Confidence Back! - 04/20/09 06:47 AM
Housing, like any other "toxic" assets, needs to go through a cleansing process. That means down, before up.

And this is going to require liquidating the debt as we cannot continue carrying all that excessive baggage forever. The empty promises, artificially inflated numbers and ongoing uncontrolled bailouts have got to stop. We just can't save everyone that bought a house who shouldn't have. If some people were greedy, lazy or stupid - sorry - they should loose their house and not be rewarded by someone else making the payments. At the same time we are not going get housing back … (29 comments)

brokers: OFFICIAL VOTE for “The Top 100 Most Influential Women in Real Estate” - 09/19/08 01:48 PM
A week ago we started discussing the impact of women in leadership roles in real estate and now a week later we have an incredible list of 100 nominations of women that have and are making the mark on our industry. Congratulations to all nominees!
 

All Rainers are hereby invited to help us select the Top 20 Most Influential Women in Real Estate by casting their ballot.
************************************************************************VOTING IS NOW OFFICIALLY CLOSED. RESULTS WILL BE POSTED ON MONDAY SEP 29th.
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