I believe it was Confucius who said that he who hesitates gets flattened by an 18 wheeler laden with 10 tons of abject irony along life’s crooked highway. Or was it something about those who dally within the confines of a centrifuge being at great peril of becoming centrifugal? Regardless of
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08/19/2009
There are things that you, as a home buyer, want to know about a prospective new neighborhood. Are the schools top shelf? Is there shopping nearby? Do the neighbors hold a semi-annual Ed Begley Jr. look-alike contest? For the most part, your agent can help you find the answers to these ques
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08/06/2009
Picture a bowl of primordial soup. No, really picture it. What does it look like? I see a gelatinous, gray gumbo of sorts. The contents within completely impervious to the light of the sun underneath an opaque, spoon-devouring top layer. I don’t need to make out the individual invertebrates
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07/17/2009
Everyone wants a piranha. Whether a professional athlete intent on a signing bonus the size of Madagascar, a victim of a vicious fender bender fixated on the 2.8 million dollar legal prescription for a tender neck or a home buyer/seller whose sole purpose on this earth at the immediate moment is
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06/16/2009
There is always opportunity in the margins. Unfortunately, margins tend to attract the marginal. The latest water cooler rumbling to emerge from a recent tour group meeting centered on a purported professional short sale negotiation company. Here in the Valley, short sale negotiation has become
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05/16/2009
It's been a little while since I've written a Real Estate specific post, or even a non-industry related piece that has consisted of more than a caption under someone else's drawing. There are two primary reasons for my absence. One, fortunately, has everything to do with a dramatic rise in busi
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05/10/2009
Choose Your Own Adventure A) "T.A.R.P. ... it's what's for dinner." B) "Hey, that's not Mama ... Holy God, it's Timothy Geithner!" C) "Unbeknownst to Carl, the beleaguered systems analyst was about to be downsized for the second time in as many days." D) "Worms again? What does a brother hav
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05/01/2009
We are ruining the internet. It started out nobly enough, the bombastic notion of connecting people and ideas from the world over through a universal medium. Free exchange of knowledge and collective experience from the privacy of one's own ... whatever. Who needs a card catalog? No Dewey Deci
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04/29/2009
Sounds innocuous enough, no? Tune in next week for some stultifying simple entertainment in these complex times. My man Andrew Lenza supplies the cartoons. I supply the captions. Hilarity and a total breakdown of Western civilization ensues. Good times. Y'all come back now, ya hear?
04/11/2009
