The market is down! No question about it! Right? Well maybe. In many if not most neighborhoods prices are not what they were two years ago, but that doesn't necessarily mean people are losing money. It's likely most homes are worth more if not considerably more that what the owners paid for them.
...
08/26/2007
I just left one of my long winded comments on Brian Brady's blog Speak English or Go Home! You should read that about the English only question. I wanted to add a short story about one of my non-English speaking clients.I had done almost two dozen loans for a family who's primary language was Tag
...
08/25/2007
"If you're going to cut and paste, give them something to think about" -- William J Archambault Jr"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here inorder to enable the world to live more amply, with greatervision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You arehere to enrich the worl
...
08/21/2007
I got taken to task by a fellow AR commenter. I commented on a non-real estate blog (How Much is a Billion? ) because I had an opinion on the subject, I respected the Blogger, I like her writing, and I'm here to be seen. Being seen is after all the reason the blog was written in the first place,
...
08/19/2007
Survival of the fittest.You've spent the last 15 years of your life learning and perfecting your real estate knowledge only to have your world come crashing down around you.More than three score of mortgage lenders closed their doors.Your local MLS has a nine month supply of listing.No thinking b
...
08/16/2007
I've been memed! My friend Rich Kruse did it this morning. I though he knew better, after all I'm known for being brief and Active Rain only has so much band with. O'well. I do list myself as the greatest living expert on the opinions of William J Archambault Jr, so I guess I'm the one to write i
...
08/16/2007
I was very empresses with Bryan Brady's pod casting Profitable Podcasting: My Equipment, but I didn't want to do phone interviews. I wanted to record some of my articles simply as an alternative presentation.I simply wanted to be able to record and upload from my desk top or lap top computer. I G
...
08/15/2007
Yes I got rained on today not once but three times and it feels good! The simplest to explain was a letter from a fellow rainer who I'd lost track of, I responded and he did too. Three simple and short letters, but two of us feeling better, a good start to my day.The second came as a real surpris
...
08/13/2007
This started out to be a comment on another blog. I don't know the blogger, a Realtor® of unknown experience, reading his home page didn't help. The subject, mortgage brokers as investment advisors, is worthy of further discussion.I'm not advocating mortgage brokers as investment advisors, but I
...
08/12/2007
"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood... Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, and that made all the difference." (Robert Frost)It's Sunday morning and as we start the day I often turn on the radio for background noise. Sundays I listen Glen Haege's, "America's Hand
...
08/12/2007
