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, [...]

Everyone has weighed in with their opinions about the proposed government bailout of some of the 1.2 million people facing foreclosure… I guess I’ll toss out my nickel (side thought… if everyone that has offered an opinion actually gave up the nickel, WE could bail out the people facing foreclosure…)

I don’t like government bailouts.

I’m a [...]

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 [...]

I know, I know. It is one of those pervasive statements in real estate. Everyone in the business says it.

Buyers are liars.

But, are they really? I don’t think so. My buyers tell me exactly what they want, and then they buy it. When they don’t, I eventually figure out I’m [...]

So, how many of you have heard of this? The X Prize.

Back when I wrote the A-Z series, it was my back up plan for the letter X. Currently, it doesn’t have much relevance to real estate, but one day it might.

The original X Prize was $10,000,000 to be awarded to the first entrant [...]

Barely after midnight, and I have already had my best crazy idea of the day…

In almost every form of motorsport, the drivers are festooned with the names of all of their benefactors. As Kurt Busch stands in Victory Lane, chugging a Coke, wearing a Miller hat, and holding a quart of Mobil1, all of [...]

This morning, the NAR kindly sent me this little update through the Real Estate Insights eNewsletter. It explains, quite well, the steps that we will need to move through before the market stabilizes, both locally and nationally. And then, this afternoon, in my REALTOR(R) Magazine Daily Online, I got this story.

Both have something [...]

Welcome to the home stretch… and I do mean streeeetch.

If you’ve been following along, you know that I have been running a series of posts going from A-Z. I am almost done, even though I don’t know what Z is going to be yet…

It’s Y time!

Youth… and real estate… how am I going to [...]

I think I was at E when I figured out what the subject of this post would be. As I was writing about ethics, I knew that I would just have to do this post. However, I’m going to stretch the definition to fit my needs.

Simply put, xenophobia is the fear of foreigners, [...]

One of my favorite things about residential real estate is that everyone can win. Think about it. We have a seller. The house is generally no longer serving their needs. Maybe they are leaving the area because of a new ob, a transfer or retirement. They might be having a [...]