One of rock's most innovative bands - the Doors, from their appearance on the Smothers Bros. Note that Robby Krieger is sporting a black eye in this video, which he received from: 1) Getting into a fight with Jim 2) A car accident 3) A guy went to punch Jim for being...
Month: February 2012
Rancho Santa Fe REO Buy
The buyer got the bank to reduce the price by $100,000 after inspections (map). Final price was $1,050,000 for fixer on 2.31 acres that is walking distance to village:
Pushback on Principal Reductions
From the latimes.com: Reporting from Washington— The regulator over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pushed back against mounting pressure that the mortgage finance giants start reducing the principal owed on troubled loans, insisting the practice could hurt taxpayers and...
Mulholland Snake
I've been sick as a dog the last few days, thanks to daytrip for carrying me!
Re-Imagining Cities
Hat tip to daytrip for sending this in from cnnmoney.com:
One By One
Hat tip to daytrip for sending this along, from the nytimes.com: THE $26 billion foreclosure settlement deal announced this month arrived in the final throes of Hollywood’s annual awards season. It also arrived too late for my neighbor, a screenwriter and director who...
Case-Shiller San Diego Dec. 2011
This is my month. Back in April 2009 at the VOSD housing roundtable, I speculated that the low point in Case-Shiller Index would be December, 2011. It was said off-the-cuff, and for comedic effect after Rich T. had just described how difficult it would be to predict...
Insisting on Principal Reductions
From the latimes.com: California’s attorney general has asked for a suspension of foreclosures on loans controlled by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Atty. Gen. Kamala D. Harris in a letter asked the regulator of the government-controlled mortgage titans to halt...
Adam Rappoport – Blog Talk Radio
Click on the media player below to listen to our Blog Talk Radio program with Adam Rappoport. We discussed his experiences with flipping houses in San Diego, hard-money lending, and his newest venture, buying properties to hold for investment out-of-state....
Join Us Tonight for Talk Radio!
At 7:00pm tonight we'll be talking with Adam Rappoport about his new venture, buying income properties out-of-state. We'll also be comparing his numbers to what you can expect locally with investment properties. For a review of Adam's work of buying properties at...