Month: April 2020
Dog Parade
Dogs are very popular these days - not sure if they are included in the $8,495,000 price:
Corona Cruise
As an essential worker on the street, let me bring you today's freeway report for those who stay at home. As usual these days, I did not interact with one human being on my trip:
The Future Of Real Estate
Wells Fargo is 'suspending' their jumbo-loan funding of all correspondents today, and the others (like Chase) are sure to follow. It's one thing to stop funding loans for mortgage brokers, but to shut down the credit lines to the big players like Loan Depot, Quicken,...
“Wealth is the Vector.”
Rich people will get a lot of the blame..... “Wealth is the vector.” That’s what sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom tweeted last week, in reference to the spread of COVID-19 across both the globe and the United States. Wealth is not the cause of every concentrated...
Mortgage Forbearance
Millions of borrowers may be unable to pay their mortgages as the coronavirus continues to crush the U.S. economy. But there is a government back-up plan. The CARES Act just signed into law allows borrowers to skip payments for up to a year and then have those...
Winstanley In Escrow
Our reader elbarcosr agreed that it's easy to get page views with everyone sitting at home on the computer anyway these days. Here are today's counts of our Winstanley listing: Zillow: 1,755 YouTube: 1,326 Facebook ad: 1,451 The Facebook ad was responsible for 840 of...
Stevie Wonder
Some uplifting positivity: