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Real Estate Tools by Tom Koziol | January 15, 2010 
Economic stress seems to be an apt description of today’s environment. Unemployment, foreclosures and bankruptcies seem to have hit every nook and cranny in these United States. Put another way, I don’t care where you live, your jurisdiction has its share of these problems. Wouldn’t it be nice if you had instant access to a [...]
Read the full article → Mortgages & Lending by Florence Foote | December 7, 2009 
As pretty much everyone realizes by now, the Obama administration’s efforts to convince banks to modify troubled loans has been little more than window dressing. Despite the $75 billion promised to fund the program, only a fraction of the people it was intended to help have received any aid. The problem of homeowner defaults has [...]
Read the full article → Commercial Real Estate by Brendan O'Brien | July 18, 2009Nine years ago, my employer (a software company in Burlington, Mass.) was nearing the end of the 10-year lease term for its headquarters building. This was just about the time that the software industry was beginning to decline, for two reasons: all of the Y2K bugs had been resolved, and investor money was no longer [...]
Commentary by Tom Koziol | April 17, 2009Image via Wikipedia Language is a beautiful thing. It provides us with the ability to label everything. The label can be clear, concise and to the point or it can be clear as mud. Take the title of this post. The words seem to be clear, concise and to the point but in actuality they [...]
Commentary by Charles Feldman | March 24, 2009Don’t pop those corks just yet. We may have ducked a few thunderheads, but we still have enormous storm clouds ahead. The news that existing home sales rose in February at the fastest rate in some six years, certainly brings with it the hope that the bottom (or end) to this mortgage caused misery is [...]
Real Estate by Charles Feldman | March 4, 2009Mortgage Relief + Congress = Bankruptcy Court Looks like the ever expanding home mortgage crisis will be headed to courtrooms after all. Democrats in the House have apparently come to terms on legislation that would give bankruptcy judges authority to rewrite mortgages provided borrowers could prove that they had tried without success to secure better [...]
Commentary by Charles Feldman | February 19, 2009Wall Street, banks, even car companies got faster help from the government in the form of one bailout or another, than did the average homeowner in this country. And, now that “help” is at hand, the real question to ask is: will it do any good? President Obama has now revealed his much anticipated “lifeline” [...]
Blogs by Jim Watkins | July 12, 2008Okay I admit it… I used to be an active “chatter” in a local chat room on Yahoo. It was a room where many people from the Dallas area met up to…Chat. Many of us had met outside of the cyber room at local restaurants, clubs and the like. Yahoo had recently shut down a [...]
Commentary by Michael Creel | March 26, 2008Is the United States going broke? Many would roll their eyes at this notion; they would tell you that the country has never defaulted on its debt that its long-term interest rates are historically low; that the dollar is the world’s reserve currency; and that China, Japan, and other countries have an insatiable demand for [...]
Mortgages & Lending by Charles Feldman | December 26, 2007This is a story–don’t worry, it will be a short story–about how the current subprime mortgage/credit crisis has actually shot down an entire airline and how this may just be the canary in the coal mine. The all-business class airline, Maxjet Airways, based in Dulles, gave an extraordinary Christmas gift to its loyal customers: It [...]
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by Tom Koziol | April 17, 2009Image via Wikipedia Language is a beautiful thing. It provides us with the ability to label everything. The label can be clear, concise and to the point or it can be clear as mud. Take the title of this post. The words seem to be clear, concise and to the point but in actuality they [...]