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real estate: Are First Time Homebuyers Being Left Out Of The Current Housing Market?
- 12/19/06 01:57 PM
I came across an article by the associated press in the MSNBC Real Estate Section, back in October entitled "First-time homebuyers being left out." The article went on to quote a poll stating that "Eighty percent of Americans believe it is difficult for most first-time buyers to afford a home, according to an AP-AOL Real Estate poll. Many people - 59 percent - believe the situation is worse now than five years ago." Even in the Midwest, the real estate market in my own backyard, over 50 percent of those first time homebuyers surveyed feel it is more difficult for first-time … (4 comments)
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real estate: Do Not Pass Go...Do Not Collect $200
- 12/13/06 02:23 PM
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages."
Adam Smith
The Wealth of Nations
I have been so busy in the last few weeks that I haven't been browsing the Active Rain Blogs as religiously as I used to. Because of my hiatus, I am not really sure if anybody has addressed this yet, there may have been somebody … (21 comments)
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real estate: The Rebirth of Cool: Detroit Real Estate
- 12/07/06 04:19 AM
Designed in 1923 by architect Louis Kamper, the Book Cadillac Hotel is one of the most famous buildings in the city of Detroit. The history of the Book Cadillac Hotel is almost as significant as its list of past guests. Baseball greats like Joe DiMaggio and Babe Ruth have stayed in the hotel, as well as Katherine Hepburn and Martin Luther King. It is a place where President John F. Kennedy spoke and "generations of Detroiters celebrated weddings, bar-mitzvahs, retirements, and other milestones."
The continuing economic destabilization and deterioration of Detroit following World War II and leading into the 1980s took … (6 comments)
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