Zen's Blog

   Foreclosure filings in California more than tripled last year to 481,392 (a figure that includes default notices, auction sales notices and bank repossessions) involving 249,513 properties, according to Irvine's RealtyTrac.    Nationally, there were 2,203,295 filings involving 1,285,873 proper...

How americans in different financial situations wuld fare under the rebate lan proposed by House leaders and the White House.An individual with $2500 in earned income in 2007: Disqualified because income fell below $3000 threshold. No Rebate.Married couple with no children, with adjusted gross in...

A deal reached Thursday would allow the two companies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, for a period of one year to purchase home loans up to 75 percent larger than the current limit of $417,000 in areas of the country with expensive home prices such as California and the Northeast.House lawmakers are...

As of this morning the Fed Fund Cut Rates by 0.50 to decrease the basic rate to 3.00%. The reasoning behind this decision was to "Moderate growth over time." This is what was said back in Sept, Oct of 2007 and when the rate was cut 0.75 points recently. Other good news is that they did not close ...

Aliso Viejo active listings of existing homes as of January 30, 2008 is currently at 310.  This is down 33% from the peak of last year of 467 which was at the end of September 2007 but it is also up 9.5% from last January.  The trend will be for this number to grow into the end of the summer.  Wi...

For the first 4 weeks of January 2008 Home sales are up 18% in Orange County compared to the previous 4 weeks in December.  Unfortunately they are down 37% compared to the first 4 weeks of January in 2007.  As a professional working this market last January, it was extremely busy January of 2007....

New home sales hit a 12 year low in December and sales were down 4.7%.  This is the 8th straight quarter of declines in new home sales.  New home prices were down 10.4% year over year from 2006 to 2007.  This just shows that we are still in the housing correction and prices are still headed lower...

It's time to upgrade my old smart phone the audio vox 6700/pocket PC phone through Verizon. I am leaning to going towards with a black berry.  I'm on Verizon and I'm happy with their service so I don't want to switch carriers to get the I-phone.  I want to be able to access the web and email alon...

I just attended a class by Michael Russer about the keys to internet marketing so I wanted to share the most important points I learned with my active rain friends.  The key to internet marketing is targeting a specific niche and Michael's suggestion is target a niche that you are passionate abou...

Laguna Niguel active listings of existing homes as of January 26, 2008 is at 467.  This is down 20% from the peak of last year of 586 which was at the end of September 2007 but it is also up 9.1% from last January.  The trend will be for this number to grow into the end of the summer.  With the n...