Monthly Archives: August 2007

Your personal market value “divining rod”

Go out there as a “dowser” to learn about homes in your chosen neighborhood. You will determine market value better than any Realtor or appraiser or homeowner because you will have been comparing homes, checking features against price, and meeting Sellers.

Technorati here I come…!

My Master of all things WEB, Gary, told me to get hooked up, synched up, registered, included, mentioned,

Baseball and words of wisdom

I’m suddenly excited by the prospect of a “Subway Series” here in NY as the Yankees continue their rocket launch into the post-season. The other NY team leads the National League. Woot! October, here we come…!
And, as George Will and so many others have learned, there is much wisdom to be gleaned [...]

When is the best time of year to buy a home?

If you know that buying a home is the right thing to do for your own personal reasons, then YOU make the time. YOU determine the “when.”

Make your own Supply to meet your Demand

Toss economic theory out the window. If you are ready to buy a home—for your own reasons—then it’s time to make your own economic theories and make ‘em stick.

Confusion, Obfuscation, Misdirection or just a plain old Scam?

Blatant scamming by a mortgage professional. I don’t care how the correspondent for the Times reads it, I see it for what it really is: a scam.
This is my opinion, of course—my IMHO—but one based on what I know of this biz in which I work and the many less-than-scrupulous “pros” who’ve been prowling [...]

Party Tricks

I’ve just read a funny article at NYTimes.com written by a self-confessed “information addict” and her quest to discern—several times a day, apparently—the value of her home and thus her potential wealth (or lack thereof) at any given moment in time using a myriad of internet resources. (I know that sentence is cumbersome, but [...]