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One of the things that many of my clients are haivng problems with deals with is that while consumer credit rates are going down, interest rates on mortgages aren't following suit. So i've been going back to the Economics classes that I took a long time ago in college trying to explain to them th...

For the past couple of years I've been working with a Business Coach with one of the large Coaching companies for REALTORS.  I've enjoyed the coaching and found the direction I had been provided to be outstanding.  I am very happy with Coach Billy. One of the things that Billy has been harping on...

Since moving to DC about 11 years ago, one of the things that I've enjoyed on Memorial Day is rolling thunder.  Growing up I was told to "fear" people of "hogs" but I've found all of the members of Rolling Thunder to be wonderful people. A couple of years ago, my mother moving through DC in her m...

Today is a day that I don't want to write a blog about things going on in the Real Estate industry.  Instead, I've decided to write about the city where I sell. While I'm licensed in Maryland and Virginia as well as the District of Columbia, the majority of my business is in the DC market. Washin...

Well ... just when we thought it was safe for buyers to get loans again.  It looked as if the lending crisis was beginning to simmer down.  That was good.  Or has it settled down. In reading the Wall Street Journal this evening online, I found the article about lenders being forced to buy back lo...

Well the final nightmare for the NAR has been settled.  The National Association of REALTORS has agreed to make the listing of real estate firms avaiable on the internet through the IDX Broker technology. This is good and then this is bad.  My biggest concern is that some of these non-tradition b...

Well here we go again with more drama related to the foreclosure crisis we are experiencing in this country. It seems that parents, with an attempt to keep their children in the schools they have been in prior to losing their home, are faking addresses.  According to the WSJ some school systems a...

After a robust market, it seems as though the Procuring Cause argument is coming up again.  When we could put listings on the market and they were on the market for a couple of days or so and then we got a nice check, we didn't care about procuring cause that much. So what is a REALTOR to do if t...

As REALTORS so many of us have been trained to teach our buyers and sellers that we are going to achieve a WIN-WIN situation for them.  The sad part is, with the market in the condition that we are experiencing, it can't be a WIN-WIN situation for all of them. Why can't it be WIN-WIN for everyone...

That's exactly what the Bush Administration is proposing.  Most of you (including me) won't remember the stock market crash of 1929 but it was a difficult time.  Housing was really affected by the situation at that time too.  My grandparents had purchased a home in Birmingham, AL (a cute, even to...