Clearfund noticed that we're halfway through summer and we haven't seen an ice cream truck yet! He suggested that we should expand our horizons - note the name of her college too:
Ice Cream Truck Substitute
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Month: July 2011
Zillow Revisions
This is pertinent because I'm working on a Zillow add-on for the blog. Is Zillow relevant? It's a starting point for most areas, but in pure tract-home neighborhoods they should be fairly accurate by now. Will sellers listen? Hat tip to SM for sending this along,...
More on Lower Loan Limits
I think we're going to see sales slow to a crawl for the rest of the year, due to sellers being unwilling to lower their price enough. Then the media will blame it on the loan limits going down. Our friend Nick at the Wall Street Journal worked on this article for a...
Audacity
Eventually, everyone is going to be doing it, at this rate:
Snake House
I keep hoping this goes away, but people keep sending it in:
HomePath
Are you thinking of buying an investment property? We've been hoping that Fannie Mae might be holding back some REOs until the new program opened: Buy a Fannie Mae-owned house, and get up to 3.5% credit towards closing costs through Oct., 2011. Here is a list of...
Termites
Take a tour with Mark DePasquale, our favorite termite inspector over the last 12 years, as he looks for termites and wood rot:
Fluff Meter
Here we are, approaching the middle of summer. You can see that new listings are doing their usual seasonal surge, but now are backing up. Currently, there are over 1,600 active detached listings in the North San Diego County Coastal region! Most sellers aren't going...
Principal-Reduction Lottery
Four posts back was the article about principal reductions - below is the response from Irvine Renter, or click here to his blog: To give the hopeless a reason not to strategically default, several banks have singled out a few deeply underwater loan owners for...
Realtor Anarchy
1. The first house in this video shows why going direct to the listing agent can be concerning. 2. The others demonstrate more short-sale shenanigans. My specific beef about short-sale flipping: When agents join the MLS membership they agree to share their listings...
