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I Hate Paying Taxes!

Considering tax season is upon us and I know many Realtors read Real Estate Radio USA, I thought I would share my (unshared?) thoughts on the oh so entertaining subject of income taxes.

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Who is Mowing Your Lawn?

From the first time my Dad let me run the lawn mower I was hooked. There is something about feeling the sun on your back and scent of the fresh cut grass that relaxes me. Then when the job is done, to just sit back and survey with pride the finished lawn, gives me a [...]

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2007 Foreclosure Report

On Feb. 13th, 2008 RealtyTrac released it’s year end 2007 Metro Foreclosure Report. I found it interesting enough to highlight some of it on in My Blog because I believe these stats affect each of us on some personal level. None of us are immune or isolated from the current global economy, which is a [...]

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Looking for Big Bucks for Real Estate

 This week I bought a nice little ranch home. It has not been my biggest deal but it will make me a tidy little profit and it gave me an education at the same time. Here is how it went. This was a bank owned property that the listing agent had a pre-signed contract done [...]

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“Project Lifeline” may be just more posturing.

The current Administration has come up with a new plan to “help folks in foreclosure”. Don’t you just love how we all become “folks” whenever politicians talk? …. Anyway , the latest brainstorm out of D.C. came last week when Treasury Secretary Paulson introduced “Project Lifeline” and, not surpisingly, Al Jackson, Secretary of HUD quickly [...]

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Sugar coating is for cereal not business

Here I was enjoying my Saturday evening and I get a call at my home from a local Realtor who was very upset with me. Apparently she and a group of her co-workers were “enjoying” my radio show and they have been stewing about it all week. This agent and her friends are all 20 [...]

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Stay the same, differently

Our own dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time: what we really want is for things to stay the same but get better. -Sidney J. Harris In December of 2006 we began to see the party coming to a close. Easy mortgages, multiple offers and monster commissions began to [...]

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