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The banks need to start working with homeowners now. If they don’t we are going to see a ripple effect in the economy that made the last meltdown look tame. I can see no reason why the banks are forcing homeowners to go 60 to 90 days late on their mortgage just to get a loan modification w...
05/19/2010
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When I was nine years old I used to travel the city by bus, train, trolley and subway. It was Philadelphia in the late fifties and early sixties. On Saturday’s I rode the Reading Railroad from my neighborhood in the northern end of the city to Center City Philadelphia and meet my Grandmother...
05/16/2010
Do situations dictate character or should our character remain constant no matter what circumstances may bring? Has the meltdown in our economy changed the way we think and act? Once there was a dream and they called it the “American Dream.” Most of us who formed this nation came from hum...
05/12/2010
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RECIPE FOR RECOVERY-Foreclosure Moratorium For the past year and a half, there has been foreclosure moratoriums placed in specific states, by specific banks, during specific holiday periods for specific periods of time. The latest is due to an Ohio man facing eviction from his foreclosed home ...
05/11/2010
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When you have access to lots of information like places on the Internet there is a good chance you are going to find wrong information. You go online and start looking for a house you are probably going to come across false listings and incorrect pricing. It was bad enough when a realtor ...
05/10/2010
I went along with a client to the Mediation with my Lawyer his Paralegal and a Real Estate Broker who has deep knowledge of real estate law. It was held in a Law Office. The Mediator was a young kid fresh out the Law School with a bad attitude and a chip on his shoulder. He started to school ...
05/01/2010
You can build houses out of paper, really. There is patented material that can produce a 387.5 square foot structure for about $5000 - small, but you can always buy more paper to build a bigger house. Just think about all these newly designed pre-fabricated houses popping up all over the plac...
04/19/2010
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The world has a long history of Bursting Bubbles. They come and they go like creatures in the nigh. . It wasn’t so many years ago we experienced the dot-com Burst. People were riding high on Tech Stocks and then - Whamo. Now we are experiencing the aftermath of the Housing Bubble. S...
04/14/2010
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The consensus here is mass transportation won't work for us - it just isn't cost effective. People love their cars too much to give it up and ride a train. Meanwhile other countries like China, France, Italy, Germany, Spain and South Korea are successful with their mass transit lines. While ...
04/12/2010
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Wouldn't it be nice if you could just get rid of that house you're underwater on and not get crucified for it? If you surrender your property thorugh Short Sale or Deed in Lieu of Foreclosure wouldn't it be great if there was some way for you to go out and buy another home in the near future...
04/12/2010