*** This is re-posted from my blog on Active Rain***

I heard voices…

And they were smart voices.

Wandering around in the Rain, there have been scores of bloggers pointing out that the federal government trying to “fix” the foreclosure crisis.  Now, Inman News is saying the same thing.   (the link will only be good until it [...]

Two items from the REALTOR® Magazine Online Daily Brief:
A masked gunman held up an Athens, Ga., bank on Thursday, saying that he was only getting his money back after the lender had foreclosed on his home.

The man entered Regions Bank wearing a black ski mask and pointed a handgun at a teller and said, “You [...]

I’m not Donald Trump… and you probably aren’t either, but you might share something in common.

Back way before I started in real estate I was in the commercial photography business.   I was a photographer as well as a professional photo assistant.  I loved the work.  I had a pretty good client base for the [...]

Every once in a while, I completely forget what I was going to write about… because something came wandering into my limited attention span that I couldn’t pass up.

Moron arrested after driving truck into house is just such a something…

I picked it up from Fox News.  They picked it up from an affiliate.  It seems [...]

While researching yesterday’s blog entry, I ran across this little tidbit.  Frankly, it p***es me off.  I am proud to be a member of the NAR.  I think that there is a place for a strong voice both for real estate professionals, and to champion the issues for increasing home ownership for consumers.

But this is [...]

I started by explaining in Everybody put your heads down on your desk… how we got to this ugly spot in the road where we see the paths of:

Government intervention in loans

or

A rush of foreclosures

In this installment, I’m going to outline the case for why it is the wrong thing for the government to do. [...]

Do you remember those words from grade school?  The big kid from the back of the class shot a spitball at the teacher, and so everyone got the same punishment.  There were 29 kids in the class that didn’t do anything, but they still got the same treatment.  What’s worse is that the kid that [...]

Sitting down this morning getting my Fox News fix, I noticed a release by the NAR that has me re-thinking a position I have taken…

Here is the link to the NAR news release.  To summarize, the position the NAR takes is that housing will start to pick up in 2008.  Existing home sales will rebound, [...]

Thanksgiving is a time that we look back over the year and think of all of the wonderful things that we have to be thankful for. It is also a time for us to enjoy being with our families. And, being with family always gets the wayback machine firing on all cylinders…

So, while [...]

What is it going to take to make them happy? Did someone at the DoJ have an unsatisfactory experience with a real estate agent? Or is it simply that they know our approval ratings are down there with our Democrat led Congress (which would love to have even the dismal ratings of George [...]