Month: May 2011

Chasing Old Ghosts

From the latimes.com: California Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris, saying that years of unscrupulous lending still haunts the state, is creating a 25-person task force to target mortgage fraud of any size — from small operations that preyed on troubled borrowers to...

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Live in a Cave?

Hat tip to GO for sending this along: Looking for 4,995sf home on a secluded 110 acres off the grid? The road averages six cars per day - listed for $597,500: Click here for more: http://thecavehome.wordpress.com/

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Lopez Island, WA

This 1800 sf home is located on a heavily wooded, medium-bank waterfront property on Lopez Island, Washington.  The house is carefully sited amidst the existing trees and the existing land form which slopes up to the bank and view.  Connections to the outdoors and...

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House of Cards

By Matt Taibbi: Got a chance to meet Josh Rosner (co-author, with Times reporter Gretchen Morgenson, of the new book Reckless Endangerment) last night during an appearance on Eliot Spitzer’s In the Arena. We were brought in to talk about the new investigation of the...

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RE Industrial Complex

From N.A.R. As you may know, there is a proposal before regulators to require a minimum of 20 percent down on all residential transactions. If allowed to take effect, the rule would put home ownership out of reach for middle-income Americans. It would take the average...

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