If you were going to design a bad investment, a mortgage on an owner-occupied home is very much what it would look like. There’s a high barrier to entry in…
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The commodity in shortest supply in the world today is time. People are spending more time at work and more time sitting in traffic trying to get there and back.…
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When it comes to making mistakes when buying real estate, people are remarkably consistent. Over the years of watching people do that in my part-time job as a real estate…
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Being in the real estate industry in 2005 made it easy to see the housing crash coming. What drove it home for me was how many times respectable agents would…
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The landscape of things that intrude on your life has quietly changed over the last 30 years. Since the 1980s the focus has been on government intrusion but there are…
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I feel sorry for honest real estate agents. Oh, they’re out there, I guarantee it. Only you won’t find them on the top producer lists and they don’t have many friends.…
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My fellow RT contributor, Bruce Haring, has an interesting piece on how Goldman Sachs managed to buy themselves out of criminal prosecution and jail time. The settlement is for Goldman’s…
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As if it wasn’t hard enough for home buyers with high prices, all cash offers and tighter lending standards, now buyers have to compete with cash-rich overseas shoppers from China…
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If you feel like your money isn’t going as far lately, it’s not your imagination. According to the data obtained from the Federal Reserve, 2014 has been a banner year…
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The narrow window when school is out — that’s when many parents want to seal the deal on upgrading their housing arrangements. That way the kids can make a smooth transition to…