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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Tags: Around the bay · Property values · foreclosure

Fool’s gold

March 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I was working in the stock market in 2001 when the dot com bomb took place. Back then people were saying you just couldn’t lose in the stock market. Then the worm turned and it was ugly. A friend of mine had a client who was heavily invested in Level 3. [...]

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Tags: Around the bay