Robin Basichis's (glenrob) Blog

I am sure the the writer of an article on The National Happiness of Bhutan had good intention and was looking to cheer some of us up. I don't really know too much about the place so I deicded to look it up.  Economy in Bhutan The chief occupations, which employ more than 60% of the workforce, ar...

  No one knows when the hard times will pass us by.  Many of us are guilty of terrible sins such as Greed, Lying, Laziness, Overconfidence, Vanity and Gluttony.  It is easy to point fingers and throw stones, but the fact of the matter is we were all in this together and there is certainly enough ...

When I first started getting into Loan-Modifications and Short-Sales I contacted existing companies and did a lot of Internet research looking for sources of information and possibly an employment opportunity.  A friend who knew I was getting into the business hooked me up with one of these - Bil...

I read the news today about who will qualify for loan modifications in the Obama Stimulus Package. Seems to me you have to meet an awful lot of criteria to make this guy happy in order to get some help from him. I won't go into a dissertation about what the government is offering to home owners r...

I am guessing that those of you who have been involved in short sales may have had similar experiences as mine.  I live in Las Vegas, and though it has not gone undisputed, Las Vegas is certainly running neck and neck with Fort Myers, Phoenix and a couple of other cities for clinching the title i...

If you are still breathing then you know that two primary reasons for our current economic failure is the housing crash and the credit crunch.  Now the banks are getting billions of dollars in a new bailout package to help rectify our problems.  If they put their money where there mouth is we may...

I have invested in real estate for most of my adult life.  When I lived in Philadelphia in the eighties I hopped on the trend of fixing up houses for Yuppies who were giving up their homes in the suburbs for a more urban experience.  I found a backer and went on a rampage buying up houses, fixing...