Given the paranoia over Russian meddling in US elections, and now revelations that there may be cyberbombs ready to explode in our softwares that run our public utilities . . . and now the N. Y. Times makes the treasonous revelation that the U. S. has taken to counter-terrorism against Russian utilities! Where will it…
Imelda Marcos has nothing on me when it comes to shoe fetishes. My compulsion is to constantly replace my tennis shoes. Nike, Adidas, New Balance, Head, Wilson, Babolat . . . they must invest huge sums in the technology to expedite the breakdown of the cushioning in the sole of the shoe. But I digress….
So you know you need to sell your home. The reasons are many. The alibis for procrastination are also many. Sometimes procrastination works in your favor. Low priority things that you ignore long enough may eventually become altogether unnecessary. How high a priority is it to sell your home? Once you find the motivation and…
Some might think me crazy, being a person whose livelihood depends largely on commerce in real estate. But it has to be acknowledged! There is an opportunity cost to being a homeowner. I have been a homeowner since I got out of school and found a seller crazy enough to owner finance my first home…
Ever since the knee jerk reaction to the crash of Oh Eight, self-employed borrowers have often been intimidated away from the mortgage application process. Despite self-employed (the “gig economy”) vocations growing as a market segment, Fear and trepidation have caused a significant 10 year drop off of self-employed applications for home loans. Dodd-Frank, the 900…
What good is it if a lender claims to have the “highest customer satisfaction ratings” if the customer service surveys they use are all obtained immediately after closing? Sure, it was so simple to close with X, Y, Z lender, so few documents! they even sent a notary to my house to show me where…
It’s not often that we reprint in whole another blogger’s post. But Attorney Elizabeth Kayser is a part of our loose affiliation of attorneys who collaborate to make us all better at doing battle with stubborn lenders. This post from Elizabeth, though written based on her experience and law practice which spans several states in…
IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING!!! Your realtor is in a unique position to help identify problems that call for further investigation. Consider the surveyor to be like a good law enforcement officer. Even your closing attorney can’t help unless the realtor alerts him to issues that presented themselves at home inspection, walk-thru, or when…
To quote a philosophical Bruce Lee, pioneering marshal arts movie star, when he was interviewed shortly before he died from accidental fight injuries in filming: “There is only one way to come into life, but many ways to go out of it.” Many people want to know what is the most common way for a…
Leave it to a radical pastor friend of mine to correct me on yesterday’s blog post about forgetting one of the best real estate investment strategies on the planet . . . . of course a “man of the cloth” should be other worldly and not accumulate too many possessions to tie him to this…
