Best Photo Of The Weekend
No trick photography here. I don’t have photoshop or the skills to plant ducks into it. They just flew over me while I was snapping pictures at Westmoreland Park to add photos to my Berkeley Place listing.
Market Watch For April 2008
Nothing new or good to report. Market is about the same though there are different statistics to play with that could make it look good or horrible. It is about the same. I wonder if the boom took longer to hit as people slowly became aware loan requirements were eased by banks. Now most people […]
Donating to St. Baldricks
There are 3 ways to donate to me shaving my head for St. Baldrick’s Foundation for children with cancer. You can donate online, download a form or call. Here is the link to get you there, www.stbaldricks.org/participants Thank you to the people who already offered to donate and the others who have offered sunscreen for […]
St. Baldrick’s Fundraiser Sunday At Barracuda
Looking in the mirror I often think I have more hair than some picture angles show. Sunday I will get a glimpse into the future as I get my head shaved for charity. St. Baldrick’s is the world’s largest volunteer-driven fundraising event for childhood cancer research. In the US, more children die of childhood cancer […]
Increasing Your Credit – Guest Post By Seth Harris
Increasing your credit score! Seth Harris Reduce Balances: Credit balances affect your credit score by about 30%. Even if you’ve never missed a payment, if your credit cards are maxed, your score will drop. Never Close an Old Account: Credit history is a major factor for your score. Often, people feel that they should close […]
Bright Shiny Friday
Depending on the forecast you watch we are headed for about 70 degrees today, 75 tomorrow and high 60’s on Sunday. And I am ready for it. This has been a long week which is why there haven’t been any new posts. I listed two new homes over the weekend. Since I started doing single […]
Free Events This Weekend
My week has been interesting enough that I think between appointments I will just be a homebody. If you want to get out and find some free stuff events at Around The Sun Blog. photo via http://www.flickr.com/photos/notsogoodphotography/
Couple Sues Google Over Street Map View
To the left is a “Steet View” of one of my previous listings. My yard sign will be there in perpetuity. You can actually use the arrows and travel up and down streets as well as spin around 360 degrees to see what is around you. This is great for people to get a feel […]
Ms. Bank – The Finale
“In like a Lion, out like a lamb.” Lisa from Transnation Title was kind enough to fit My Client’s schedule and we signed this morning at 6:30 so My Client could be to work at 7:30. Because of another blunder by Ms. Bank we missed closing or even signing yesterday which caused fits of frustration […]
Interesting Links
A Tasting Report for the Willamette Valley. Phoenix has 53,000 homes for sale. The riskiest markets where Phoenix was 10, Detroit ranked No. 1 followed by Orlando, Fla.; Cleveland; St. Louis; Miami; Las Vegas; Sacramento, Calif.; Denver and Tampa, Fla. Intuition Real Estate Group may be as good as a Palm Reader (see I was […]
Six Evictions A Week
The Sheriff is the one to evict people when a foreclosure has been completed. I don’t think they imagine this is part of their job but still they have to do. And this guy has to do it almost every day right now.
Interactive Subprime Map
A Federal Interactive Map showing Subprime and Alt-A exposure has been released. December 2007 numbers for subprime below. Here is a link to national data. As I have mentioned before, in 2005 it was reported that 45% of homes sold were bought as secondary homes, either rentals, flips or vacation residences. A chart on that […]
Inertia And Mistakes
Ms. Bank continues to make mistakes. A mistake today cost My Client any hopes of closing today. A small thing that I think was small enough that the person who was to be stepping in to help couldn’t have anticipated. There seems to be this universal law that once something goes wrong, it continues to […]
Seller Disconnect
On the left are homes Active in a certain area with 2 schools being a common denominator. On the right are Pending, first section, and Sold Listings for the last 6 months, second section, with the same criteria. You see that the Pending homes follow the sold line as far as price range but the […]
Portland Sales Up 227.8994333(Repeating Of Course)%
Seen enough April’s Fool jokes today? Yeah me too but I also am writing this after looking over Freakonomics blog. They look at statistics differently or try to look deeper. Right now with tons of numbers and statistics thrown around from National Association of Realtors and Doomers it gets confusing to what is going on […]
Why I Don’t Name The Bank
I have had a few questions and an interesting call because of my posts about Ms. Bank. I won’t name the bank because I can’t damn everyone for the faults of one or a few. Every agent at a large real estate company has heard someone say I will never work with THAT company because […]
