The Real Blog of Ken & Denise

Well written blog post by Rick Jacobson titled Referrals in the Rain.  I wrote a response, sent it off yesterday.  Then I re-read it today.  It was so long I should have made it a blog.   So I am......  Being part of a national franchise rather than a local or regional brokerage doesn't provide a...

We are getting together with friends, family, neighbors to take pause, visit and give thanks for our past year.   While together, whether it be at a family feast, a cocktail party a club or society holiday dinner, a community event, the conversation is inevitably going to be about real estate.  W...

So it appears....... at the moment interest rates are entering an upward trend. I am not sure this is entirely bad.  Fixed-income investors have received so little return for such a long time, I think they bought gold or something.  Maybe even a little real estate. The very recent huge purchases ...

The stunning indigo blue inland sea known as Lake Tahoe was not always full of large expensive homes and a real estate market that is as flat as the lake itself.  Lake Tahoe might have remained undiscovered had it not been for Indians and a few intrepid settlers.  Settlers with enough stamina to ...

 Setting goals, making a business plan, reviewing a business plan...   These are things that are hard to do. It's only the first week of December, and I keep reading how now is the time to start planning and setting goals. I would like to not wait until 2011 like everyone else but I may just end ...

The news about real estate although it is poor is not a surprise to most of us in the business but to the consumer too.  It is sobering, though, to recognize how negative the foreclosure problems have proven to be for real estate sales. If real estate economists are predicting a slow 2011 with de...

This is well written.  I did not even notice the length.  All who read this will appreciate the words John put into this.  It is right on point.(With apologies for length) Willie Sutton, the famed bank robber of the 1930’s and 40’s once made the statement, "Go where the money is...and go there of...