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Month: February 2012
Bank Fights Back
Hat tip to SM for sending this in from the ocregister.com: It was a $2 million Laguna Beach dream house six years in the dreaming, building and litigating, but it was taken from Mark Zigner in less than a minute on Thursday, in an auction on the courthouse sidewalk. I...
Short in CV
Does the previous sales price impact how much people pay today? Do buyers in Carmel Valley figure that if they are getting 20% to 30% off what the last guy paid, they did good enough?
Mortgage-Settlement Renegade
From BI and cnbc: Rochdale's Dick Bove went on a tirade this morning on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" claiming the joint state-federal mortgage settlement, which he dubbed in a note earlier as "the mortgage deal from hell," unfairly impacts those homeowners who pay...
FHA & Strategic Defaults
I haven't seen any defaulters buying again, but they better hurry - from NMN: A House Financial Services subcommittee is slated to mark up an FHA reform bill Tuesday that establishes a minimum annual mortgage insurance premium and extends the agency's indemnification...
Jeff Beck
Didn't everyone have at least one Jeff Beck 8-track?
Del Mar Quonset REO
If the street/RR tracks aren't enough, how do you like the floor plan?
CR’s Bottom Call
CR's bottom call caused many to scoff, and point to various ivory-tower theories to refute it. This is what he said, which is more of a technical call about home-price indexes: And it now appears we can look for the bottom in prices. My guess is that nominal house...
Rental Scam = 61 Felony Counts
From 10News: SAN DIEGO -- A woman was arrested in connection with an alleged housing scam centered in the South Bay, the San Diego County District Attorney's Office announced Monday. The district attorney's office said Dianne "Harmony" Brown illegally took over...
Mission Hills Classic
You don't see 'em like this around Carmel Valley: