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This is pretty funny. At least we can chuckle at it when it is in cartoon form. When it is real life, it is not so funny…
So, let’s pretend you and I are talking about the price of oil in the commodities market. And let’s say you want my opinion about the price of oil, and where it should be. I can pull out 20 full color graphs showing price trend charts, demand charts, price elasticity studies, supply forecasts, …
Selling your house yourself always seems like it would be easy. I mean, how hard can it be, right? By the looks of this sign, this owner is finding it to be tough sledding. Hey, at least you have to give them credit for thinking outside the box…
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I’m not sure this is what industry insiders are talking about when they mention green building trends. This house in Wales was built by the owner using all green materials (I mean really
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green) such as mud, stone, wood scraps, straw, and lime plaster.
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Monarch butterflies were everywhere today. Hundreds, thousands, millions…. who knows. But there was a steady stream of them everywhere I went today… Pleasanton, Livermore, and Dublin. It was quite a show. Monarch butterflies are the only migrating butterfly, heading south for the Winter, and returning in the Spring. They can travel …
A few years ago, my family asked my dad, who’s health was failing at the time, what he most wanted for Christmas. He replied “I just want peace in the world, and all of you to be happy, successful, and healthy.” To which my older brother replied “would you settle for a sweater?” …
One of the “perks” of being in a recession is usually downward pressure on interest rates. An economic slowdown reduces the demand for capital, and usually leads to lower interest rates. And volatility in stock prices usually leads to more investment in money market instruments, thereby increasing the “supply” of money available to …
You know what they say… when the going gets tough, the tough read cartoons. Here are some of my recent favorites (click to enlarge)
According to Forbes.com, San Francisco is one of the markets most likely to recover quickly from the current real estate recession. In a nutshell, commercial real estate experts think that San Francisco’s strategic access to Asian trade (via the ports of San Francisco, and more importantly Oakland), and relatively strong office and apartment rental …
A little humor to lighten the mood. Now this is funny!
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I have always been a huge fan of political cartoons. It fascinates me how clever these cartoonists are, and how they can say so much in pictures. I like to occasionally share some of them that strike a chord. This one says it all about the foreclosure mess…
I remember meeting with a seller who’s listing with another agent had expired. I asked the seller how the traffic had been. “Great!” the seller exclaimed. “We have had an open house every weekend, and we are getting tons of traffic!”. “How about showings by Realtors?” I asked. The seller …
There has been tremendous fallout from the sub prime & mortgage market meltdown. Lenders have tightened up underwriting criteria, and are demanding higher credit scores. Downpayment requirements have increased, and most of the high risk “stated income” loans have gone by the wayside. There is, however, no truth to the rumor that …
The question everyone wants to know in the Pleasanton, Dublin, San Ramon, and Tri-Valley region is “when are we going to hit the bottom of the real estate slump?” This seems to be the source of endless debate among both real estate professionals, as well as the general public. There are no clear …
Great. Not only do we have to contend with the sub-prime crisis, the foreclosure crisis, inflation, the price of oil, and the middle east, now comes word that the Burmese Python has established breeding colonies in the U.S., and experts now predict that they could eventually occupy as much as 1/3 of the country, …