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05/15/2008
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05/14/2008
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Created: 26/8-08 at 22.24
It's another study story, so don't get too excited, but it's worth noting. The Brookings Institution studied what will become the Mount ...
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Created: 20/8-08 at 11.39
I've been driving around lately with an investor friend who's looking for a hold. Something simple, 1,000 square foot ranch she can fix up and rent out for a few years. After all, we all know it's ...
Created: 25/6-08 at 16.11
A couple of stories in major news outlets caught our eye this week, mainly because the same story appeared in the May-June edition of Personal Real Estate Investor (“Living On The Fringe,” page ...
Created: 18/6-08 at 17.20
Watching our countrymen suffer these past ten days in the Midwest is not easy. Our hearts go out to them. No doubt southern Californians and former Louisianans particularly empathize with the peo ...
Created: 16/6-08 at 13.22
Is there no end to the Orange One's shamelessness? The lastest from Angelo ...
Created: 11/6-08 at 10.48
SUBWAY Founders, Franchise Brands, acquires HomeVestors. As we go to press, Franchise Brands LLC has acquired majority ownership of HomeVestors® of America, Inc. A guiding resource behind F ...
Created: 05/6-08 at 14.31
Being members of the media ourselves, we're reluctant to smear the profession as a whole with a broad brush. However, real estate news tends to be misreported in general. This ...
Created: 02/6-08 at 11.29
Real estate news from the mainstream press is still being ...
Created: 08/5-08 at 15.15
Countrywide Financial lost $893 million in the first quarter of this year. Bank of America is getting cold feet about buying the company, seeing as how Countrywide shares are trading at 15 percent ...
Created: 25/3-08 at 00.53
Ah, the balm of perspective. We hear a lot nowadays about cycles and how long this one will take to rise again and so on and so forth. And frankly, things are really crappy out there due to a crisi ...
Created: 25/3-08 at 00.52
Two people I've interviewed in the past week had interesting comments on the same topic. One man was a research economist with Texas A & M. The other was a Colorado-based hard money lender. ...
Created: 25/3-08 at 00.51
Countrywde Financial CEO and Orange One Angelo Mozilo stepped in front of a House committee last week examining outrageous executive compensation at a time w ...
Created: 25/3-08 at 00.50
Willy Wonka and the Amazing Sub Prime Meltdown! A musical for the whole bankrupt family! He's a busy oompa-loompa! Tu ...
Created: 25/3-08 at 00.49
In the Jan. / Feb. edition of Personal Real Estate Investor, we published a cover story entitled "Foreclosures: America, You're Being Misled." The mainstream press is beginning to ...
Created: 25/3-08 at 00.47
A story in the main Arizona daily today caught our attention. The article trumpeted the fact tha ...
Created: 25/3-08 at 00.46
Check out this chart on MSNBC. It's a look at the top 20 winning and losing real estate markets. (Who knew Wenatchee, Washington w ...
Created: 25/3-08 at 00.45
Two days ago Angelo Mozilo, Countrywide Financial CEO, Orange One, and architect of American despair, said he would walk away from almost $40 million in severance pay, perks, and fees he was schedu ...
Created: 25/3-08 at 00.45
This just in from the University of San Diego, via press release:"Due to unforeseen scheduling conflicts resulting from the proposed acquisition of Countrywide Financial Corp. by Bank o ...
Created: 25/3-08 at 00.44
Another entry for the "Death of All Reason" files:The face of the subprime meltdown, Countrywide Financial CEO Angelo Mozilo, has been invited to speak at the University of San Die ...
Created: 25/3-08 at 00.41
Spent the morning casting about for something good to say for the New Year, something to do with real estate which does not involve the words "apocalypse," "meltdown," or " ...
Created: 25/3-08 at 00.40
Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated this morning. Here's what the Associated Press reported on the market reaction to Bhutto's murder:"Stocks fell sharply Thursd ...
Created: 25/3-08 at 00.39
This quote from an MSNBC story ("Slow growth but no recession seen for 2008," ...
Created: 25/3-08 at 00.38
An index tracking the sentiments of U.S. ...
Created: 25/3-08 at 00.36
"It almost makes you want to embrace traffic, doesn't it?"- A real estate auctioneer on $55 a square foot in Pinal County, Arizona, a desert dustbowl miles from Phoeni ...
Created: 25/3-08 at 00.32
Wannabe homeowners who are self-employed or have had their current job fewer than three years may feel lik ...
Created: 25/3-08 at 00.26
PMI Mortgage yesterday released its annual market risk index.The index ranks the nation's 50 largest metropolitan statistical areas, according to the likelihood that home prices will be lower ...