A Time To Measure

Another Labor Day approaches! In 2005, it signaled the end of the boom, the bubble popping, the nail hitting the tire or whatever you want to call it. The slowdown began. By March of 2006, two more tires were flat and by Labor Day 2006, just one year after the boom, the tires were off [...]

The Reality of Realty

The Reality of Realty
So you want to list your house. Who do the consumers want to list with? Let me give you an example of average layman thinking: The house in this example is worth between $475,000 and $500,000. The consumer interviews three agents. One agent is a familiar face in the community they live, [...]

The HOA in YOUR Community?

there is an issue that hinders property values in many communities. The HOA or Homeowners Associations that regulate the rules and regulations (and deed restrictions) of PUD’s (Planned Unit Developments, a.k.a.: subdivisions).

A Mortgage Rescue Plan

A great story from the AP today. Please read below. After the article, I have my comments: __________________________________
WASHINGTON (AP) — A mortgage rescue plan to save hundreds of thousands of homeowners from foreclosure drew overwhelming Senate support Monday, inching toward passage despite Republican objections. The Senate voted 76-10 to advance the bill, a broad array [...]

Be Prepared To Take The Risk

The millionaires are being made again. As the Florida real estate market decline stops to a grinding halt faster than the Tampa Bay Rays losing ways, those day traders of the dom com boom and those pre-construction “flippers” have given way to the real investors. Those who are buying now in a frenzy will be [...]

Where is The bottom?

Where is the bottom? The real estate market is still in decline according to the most recent stats. When will we hit the bottom? The truth is nobody knows! The market can turn faster than Brittany Spears goes from drunk to sober, to good mom to bad mom! As long as lenders are tight on [...]

Gas Prices and Real Estate

Gas Prices and Real Estate:The price per barrel of oil seem to have a price impact on everything from food to the cost of a new DVD. The one thing that is not impacting is the price of real estate! Too bad because this could be one of the few positive spotlights for Sellers in this [...]

Real Estate, Politics, and the NFL

Where does all this “change” come from!  Look at the state of our country!  In 2005, the realty market was on fire, gas was $2.00 a gallon and nobody knew a politician named Obama unless you were from Illinois!
Fast forward to 2008, faster than Michelle Obama can do a “daps” with her husband Barack Hussain [...]

Discovery! It does Take More Than 2% To Sell a Home!

I was thinking today about how fast real estate markets change. Just a few years ago, Realtors in Tampa Bay were freaked out over a new business model that was advertising 2% commissions. The spokes person used to say that “it did not take 5%, 6% or 7% to sell a home”. It only cost [...]

Democrats, Republicans and the Liberal Media

 If it were up to the media, the last presidents would have been Walter Mondale, Al Gore, John Kerry and now Obama. They only got Bill Clinton in the middle somewhere (and I’m forgetting somebody, rightfully so). And now those same liberals are trying to say that Hilary Clinton is the Devil………unless she is the [...]