Archive for the ‘Real Estate’ Category
Friday, June 20th, 2008
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has been in the news again recently warning investors about inflation fears and stirring talk that interest rates will start to climb later this year. But according to a recent Investor's Business Daily article, some economists aren't predicting a rate hike until 2009.
As those of ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
With today's technologies, many of us have grown to rely on the internet to help us research or purchase everything from groceries to automobiles. Most industries-including our own-have embraced this new frontier as a great opportunity to better market our products and services and see it as a venue by ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Texans have long known that life is just better when you enter into the 260,000+ square miles that is the Lone Star state. Now the nation is also taking notice. In fact, in the most recent list created by Fortune magazine, Texas is home to more Fortune 500 companies than ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
It appears that I'm not alone in my opinions about our housing market. In his recent Wall Street Journal article, Cyril Moulle-Berteaux announced that "the housing crisis is over".
Given the worldwide tone of gloom and doom that I referenced in a previous blog, you may be asking yourself if Moulle-Berteaux is ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
My friend Julie always had the worst luck when it came to real estate. If there was a wrong time to buy or sell a home, she would find it. After some friends bought a condominium, they encouraged her to buy one in the same complex. She paid a little ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
The housing crisis. The credit crunch. Unscrupulous lenders.
Between the media's daily recession report and the testimony on Capitol Hill lately, we're all waiting for the imminent collapse of our economy. Surely mortgage companies are waiting at our doors, waiting to grab the keys from our hands and toss us into ...
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