Tons of money chasing mortgage backed securities.
Interest rates really low.
Government says it wants everyone to be able to own their own home.
Interest rates slowly move up, but still at historically low rates.
Real estate markets begin to cool as rates rise from their uber-low levels, fears of inflation, real estate bubbles and poor job markets increase.
Loan […]

Andymac just sent me an article plublished in the Wall Street Journal (available for the next 7 days gratis via that link) that should show every one of us how full of crap our elected representatives are. In case you didn’t get the memo, it is all about the dolla bills y’all. If you […]

Well, many of you who actually know me in person, know that I have been pretty bearish on the national real estate markets for some time. In short, I feel that the lack of oversight and allowing interest rates to hang as low as they have is going to cause another real estate crash like […]

Getting back into the guerrilla marketing game in the offline world has been pretty fun. I really do like the mix of online / offline marketing. I guess that is simply because I have learned so much in the past few years of focusing back on the online marketing game. But, now it is time […]

We just got back from a 5 day trip to Sun Valley, Idaho where the real estate market is crazier than I thought. Danielle’s good friend Ashley Melin married Adam Ruback this weekend after an 8+ year relationship. I had the fortune of traveling to Sun Valley for the first time and to be […]

If you think you have a fetish for Plasma screen televisions, then you need to check out this dude’s house. This is what I call a guy’s house.

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Check out the IDX Free free MLS system at the Esquire Real Estate website. The system was built to be very search engine friendly and we hope that it will become the default free IDX solution on the market…that is as soon as we work out all of the kinks.

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We have been working on some free FTP IDX software in the last couple of weeks and we are now opening it up to some more people who would like to Beta test. The system was designed to be completely search engine friendly as well as user friendly. Most real estate agents have […]

Well, our buddy Alan Greenspan will be testifying in fron of Congress on Thurdsay and it will be interesting to see what the head of the Federal Open Market Committee has to say. I have been reading some thoughts that a recession may be inevitable at this point due to fuel prices, inflation and […]

Seems like the last week has seen many more people jumping on the “end of the world” bandwagon. Today, MSN published an article about interest only loans, their origin and why they are not the best loan for everyone. You can check out the article here.

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Ok, I have been babbling about this enough in “real life” so, I may as well publish something in writing on the off chance that I am right about something. I was just looking at the Money Magazine real estate edition that they publish once a year. There is a small article in here about […]

There is one reason I subscribe to Money Magazine. I subscribe for their once-a-year real estate edition. They cover today’s hottest topics in real estate and rank the top real estate markets in the country. More than simply ranking them, they forecast the growth rate for the coming year and provide you with historical […]