While I took a decidedly more aggressive approach to the recent Time Magazine article on Rethinking Homeownership (The War on Homeownership Has Begun) - this blogger took a more direct and measured approach. Of course since he values security, education, civic participation, happiness and wealth
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08/31/2010
The administration's war on home ownership has begun. The first salvo's were lobbed months ago as rumors leaked out that 'high level discussion' were being held about the value of housing. It escalated a couple weeks ago with the White House Conference on Housing, where the predominant message wa
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08/31/2010
From The Electronic Frontier Foundation : "Locational privacy is the ability of an individual to move in public space with the expectation that under normal circumstances their location will not be systematically and secretly recorded for later use." Many of us are justifiably concerned about th
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08/30/2010
Very cool new toolbar from NAR. It gives you a search window - like we need another one of those - but it also does a roll that provides the latest info on legislative or other issues - like right now my roll is talking about the recently passed NFIB, then an article on 30 under 30. It's also got
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08/27/2010
Why do they call it a 'short-sale'? You could actually have a baby in less time than it takes to work through the short sale process in many cases. And while lenders are promising to expedite the process and reduce the lead time, the fact remains that the problem is growing and as more and more s
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08/23/2010
How's your market? So far we've avoided the 'plunges & plummets' that seem to have afflicted the rest of the country. But I question if it really has impacted everybody - or just a few markets that tend to make the headlines. Hope your market is doing better than the headlines. 8 city rept View m
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08/22/2010
As if businesses aren't already drowning in regulation, red tape and taxes, here's another little extra you probably haven't heard about yet courtesy of the Obama Healthcare Bill. You've all heard about the additional 3% tax on homeowners that's buried deep inside the bowels of this bill - yet th
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08/20/2010
The headline caught my eye. "California Foreclosure Rate Highest For Latinos". The article stated 'Loans taken out by Latinos in California have been more likely to end in foreclosure than most other groups' according to a study released by the non-profit Center for Responsible Lending. It went
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08/20/2010
I suspect many of you have been following the blowback from the White House Conference on Housing held earlier this week. I haven't had an opportunity to talk with former CAR President Vince Malta, who was NAR's rep at the event, nor have I seen any quotes from him in the press. Most of the quote
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08/19/2010
Well it may not be the real thing but it's as good as we're gonna get in Temecula. This Friday evening at Wilson Creek Winery, Garratt Wilkin & The Parrotheads will be doing their tribute to Jimmy Buffett & the Coral Reefers. The Parrotheads have been billed as the #1 Buffett Tribute Band in th
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08/16/2010
