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From our friends fighting rivers…

Friday, 20 June 2008 23:14
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A friend of mine is quite involved in a big fight right now.  Along with his neighbors and friends, he is fighting a river.  And while this is going on, he has taken time out to assemble some incredible blog posts with some inspiring photography.  He has another blog, but the one that is the most complete is his blog on Active|Rain.

So, without further ado, here are a couple of links to his posts.  They are loaded with pics, as well as videos, and truthfully, I think that the accompanying text is worth the price of admission.

Grab your boots and lend a hand

Grab your boots and lend a hand: A week in the Wisconsin flood

Voices from the flood: Wendell and Michelle

Voices from the flood: Wendell and Michelle

You really owe is to yourself to check these out.  Steve has done a better job humanizing the stories there than a lot of reporters.

Could I ask for a nicer day?

Thursday, 19 June 2008 22:37
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I don’t think so…

It was an incredibly beautiful day today, and I don’t think I could have hoped for a nicer one.

Sorry this isn’t about real estate or cars… but it was just so nice.

If you aren’t in Atlanta… sorry.

;^ )

Finally! An eNewsletter… Mailing… Tomorrow!

Wednesday, 18 June 2008 23:23
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Yep…  I will be mailing the eNewsletter today.  I have found a solution and am bypassing the system that I was using before…

If you are curious…

I had been using a WordPress Plug-in called ShiftThis…  and it was neat in that I could highlight a few posts, and in about three minutes have a newsletter ready to mail.  It also collected the addresses as people signed up.  It was an elegant solution… if not pretty.  But, when I installed WP2.5, it broke.  The developer said he had it covered… and despite installing and re-installing the upgrade, I wasn’t finding a way to make it work.

So, I chucked it.  I have signed up with Constant Contact, and while it isn’t quite as simple, I have a prettier and more effective end product.

Feel free to sign up for the newsletter…

Don’t worry about getting spammed.  I won’t sell, give away or trade your email address.  I also won’t overload your email inbox.  I currently only plan on doing one eNewsletter a month, but may go to two, or send out an update… so, never more than one mail a week, and likely only one or two a month.

Enjoy.

Oil Bubble?

Tuesday, 17 June 2008 23:03
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Not real estate related, except on the farthest periphery…

Could the price of oil be in a bubble right now?  Of course, the industry experts are convinced that oil price escalation is different that real estate price escalation was… or internet stocks… or oil back in the 1970s…  Of course, real estate was different than all of the other bubbles, as was the internet stock price increase.

I’m no industry expert, and there are a lot of people that study oil prices more than me… but if the run up in prices is because of speculation, then it will only take the right news to pop the bubble and introduce fear.

That could be the US figuring out that we could pull 5 million barrels a day from ANWR and the outer continental shelf and the new finds in ND and MT.  If that were followed up by the President announcing that we WOULD be finding a way to extract oil from oil shale, and that some unused military bases would be converted to oil refineries… there would be fear about future price increases.

It would be fun to see some of the speculators get nailed with the shorts down…

Looking for the Gwinnett real estate expert?

Monday, 16 June 2008 15:24
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I hate to toot my own horn, but if I don’t, I doubt that my competition will…  So, here it goes.

When the AJC needed perspective on Gwinnett real estate…

Their reporter called me.  Apparently, I was inescapable…  I do write monthly market reports, and I don’t pump sunshine…  I tell it like it is.  If it is good, I will say so.  If it isn’t, I will say so.  I do subscribe to the NAR position that all real estate is local, but I don’t try to use that to camouflage a weak market.

Have a link…

Here is a link to the AJC Gwinnett real estate wrap up.  The story is well written, and balanced.  The market here isn’t all sunshine, and the numbers bear that out.  It also isn’t bloodshed… and the numbers bear that out.

Every month I study the numbers.  I look at the news and the trends all of the time and try to glean where the market is heading.  But, more importantly, I try to make sure that I can back up what I am saying.  I hear a lot of people preaching doom and gloom… or preaching that it’s peachy… and they don’t have anything to back it up.

Have another link…

Here is my April/May 2008 market report on my blog.  Here is the report on my website.  Of course, if you are reading this later in the year, you can always find my most recent report on the front page of my website at GarageHomesUSA.  It is usually on a content rotator near the top of the page.  If you don’t see it right away… it should be there in a minute.

Thanks for tuning in.

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