In December, The Wall Street Journal stated “Goldman: Housing Market Bottom Is Really, Finally (Almost) Here” and in January, CNN Money reported “New-home sales hit a record low.” Despite these pessimistic media reports, there is renewed optimism in real estate. It is tangible. Homeowners, buyers, sellers, real estate agents, inspectors, and even stereotypically stoic title [...]
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Last month, the Obama administration wasted no time in 2012 when it appointed former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray as director of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The appointment made big news, of course, because it had been without the approval of Congress, which had been stonewalling the Cordray nomination for months. Now [...]
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Have you ever gone on a road trip with kids? If you have, you may cringe at the question, “Are we there yet?” Over the last couple of years, we’ve been on pretty wild real estate market road trip that has had buyers, sellers and realtors asking themselves the same question. “Are we there yet?” [...]
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In the dark, everything looks scary. That monster in the corner, though, is only a jacket over a chair when you turn the light on.
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Trying to make sense of our tax assessments here in Franklin County lately has begun resembling a skit from one of those old “Hee Haw” shows.
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Foreclosures are still climbing in Ohio, and even with all of the four-letter government solutions (HAMP, HAFA, HARP) it’s simply not enough. Enter The Short Sale Solution.
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Wow, talk about hitting the road running! We’ve barely had a chance to recycle our old 2011 calendars and already there’s been big news out of Washington, D.C., with major potential implications for the financial services industry, as well as my own. In case you — oh, I don’t know — blinked or something, on [...]
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One of the wonderful things about this time of year, whether you celebrate Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa or simply hope for world peace, is that it can bring out the best in people. We tend to take that extra minute to do something nice for a neighbor, or we donate time or money to those in [...]
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Complain all you want about the government..believe me, I have…but the Home Affordable Refinancing Program (HARP) is something lawmakers actually got right.
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Lately, as children develop an inexplicable interest in lumps of coal, their parents are becoming concerned about another kind of rock: shale. And they want it. Bad.
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