West Lafayette Homes for sale

                             CHRISTMAS  in CAPILANO BY THE LAKE We had a beautiful snowfall Christmas Eve and early Christmas morning.  When we woke up in the morning we had a fresh six inches of new snow and I went out to take some pictures of the morning sun hitting the trees outside our house...

    It was exactly three months ago today that we laid my father-in-law to rest, less than 250 yards from his lifetime home that he built with his own two hands. He was buried less than 50 feet from the utility pole that started the chain of events that led to his death this past September. The r...

                             BOTTOM TEN list:  You know it is a HUD home when:     10.  The top REALTORS® in your MLS board have no idea what you are talking about.   9.  Instead of welcoming you the cockroaches HISS at you!   8.  Your investor clients do not want to go into the house.   7.  The ...

Is buying a West Lafayette home for sale a hedge against inflation?   Richard Weisser has written a featured post "Buying a house now could be the best hedge against inflation. . .EVER!"that makes a  solid case for consumers buying a home because of the low home prices and the incredibly low inte...

microburst = MACRO DAMAGE It was almost a week ago that West Lafayette experienced a microburst  from  a  storm  literally out of nowhere that led to MACRO damage in the city.  Wind speeds were clocked at over 80 mph and damage was sudden and swift to structures and trees. The West Lafayette Hig...

RUSSIAN SPIES IN THE UNITED STATES??? There seemed to be some AR interest in the Russian spy ring story and that two of the spies had active real estate businesses. Many readers seemed incredulous that the Russians would still be spying on the US, afterall isn't The Cold War OVER?  The dreaded K...

      The entire course of the war in the Pacific changed  when the Imperial Japanese Navy suffered a cataclysmic loss at the Battle of Midway.  Japan had won victory after victory since the annihilation of the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, but that would all change on June 4th, 1942 near M...

  SEVEN AND A HALF months and unless UPS goes out of business I will have my very own business cards by the end of the week! WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG, Bruce?  I had the best of intentions in getting a business card when I started in Real Estate back in mid-August, but my wife Sharon put the brakes o...

  THE TEACHER'S LOUNGE- it's everything you imagined it to be as a former student, parent, or school patron.  In 31 years of teaching secondary school I perhaps visited this hallowed institution of venting frustration, carping, and discussing students and administration perhaps ten times.  In my ...

   Are you SURE you want to have a FEATURED post on Active Rain???  It has been about a month now since there was a lot of talk about individuals wanting to have  featured posts and the responses to those bloggers desirous of a featured post.  I can understand the reasons why AR members would wan...