Raleigh/Durham Loan Officer

The figures on new home starts came in today 9% below a month ago.  Available inventory of new homes also went up.  This last factoid got me to thinking....What the hell are the builders thinking?  Are there still some builders out there building spec homes?  Did that many deals die, leaving the ...

If you haven't read part one of this post, please check it out so that you can be brought up to speed. In the comments to that post, Broker Bryant, TLW and a couple of other folks disagreed with me regarding the use of a copyrighted image that I used in my post, "Twas The Evening After Christmas"...

Twas the evening after Christmas and all through the houseNot a creature was stirring, Not even Uncle Al, the drunken louse.  The stockings had been torn downby curious girls and boys Wrapping paper littered the flooralong with the dog's new squeaky toy.   The children had been bundled and off th...

I just posted my sign off post for the holiday today and tomorrow and in it I mentioned that I was going to get a light workout in before I started cooking.  As I was getting ready to head into the workout room it dawned on me that for the last couple of weeks that I have been pinched for time an...

Time to put the phones on forward!  I don't know how many of you out there even toyed with the idea of getting any work done today, but I have a couple of deals working and I have my normal Monday rituals that I normally go through, so I went into the office to get those done.Turns out that just ...

A while back someone here on AR was talking about "Musical Guilty Pleasures" and I pretty much blew by it.  That is til today.  As I'm writing this my son is in the other room working out listening to rap music turned up loudly.....I can imagine that a lot of you would probably cringe at this tho...

For some people Christmas is the best time of the year.  For us Grinches out there, it can be a bit more difficult. But even for us Grinches, some things can sneak in there to melt our cold cruel hearts!  This was the case today when I read a post by Ernie Cabrera called, "A Call To Action" that ...

This past weekend I drove up to Columbus Ohio in order to help my daughter move her things back to St. Louis after having graduated from "The" Ohio State University and as the Robert Cray song said, "The Forecast Called For Pain!".The Weather Service was predicting a winterly mix along Interstate...

This morning I read a blog by Janet Guilbault called, "The Millenials Are Coming" that told the story of a grocery store in her neighborhood that had completely redesigned itself in order to appeal to a younger, maybe more "hip" market. She talks about how her daughter walked in and was 100% comf...

I just read a post where an agent was asking if he should file a complaint against an agent who had not presented an offer on a property over a weekend.  It turned out that the listing agent was hunting and wouldn't be back to his office until Monday morning to present the offer. Long story short...