The new housing bill has passed and the President is expected to sign it. It has some interesting components. If you asked me a year ago about a $7500 credit for first time buyers, I would have just laughed at you. $7500 didn’t begin to cover closing costs in Contra Costa County. It’s a different [...]
Entries Tagged as 'foreclosure'
No finance, no romance
July 30th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Property values · Real Estate · foreclosure
You gotta know when to hold’em, know when to fold’em
June 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment
The news has been full of reporting on foreclosures and I’ve mentioned it several times here. Currently the number one city for foreclosures in the country is Stockton, CA, followed by Coral Gables, FL, Merced, CA, Modesto, CA and Riverside, CA, Las Vegas, Vallejo-Fairfield, CA, Bakersfield, CA, Sacramento and Port Lucie, FL is #10. [...]
Tags: foreclosure
Fire on the mountain, lightning in the air
April 11th, 2008 · No Comments
We had our first grass fire today. Originally I heard Sherman Island out in the Delta, but now they’re saying some other island. There’s a slew of ‘em up in the Delta, so who knows. April 11 is sure pretty early to be coming home to this kind of smoke in the [...]
Tags: Real Estate · Title Insurance · foreclosure
Can we call it a loan, And a debt that I owe
April 6th, 2008 · No Comments
There’s been a lot of talk in the news and on the street about foreclosures. I am more intimately involved in this than most people, being in the title business. It helps that one of my closest friends is the Junkman. Yesterday, I held an open house for another friend of [...]
Tags: Around the bay · Property values · foreclosure