Explanations for Sinking Soil Good home inspectors don’t just check out the interior of a home; they check the exterior and even the yard for clues that something “just isn’t right.” So, when my client’s inspector noticed a depression in the backyard of their under-contract St. Louis Park home, he raised the possibility that the...Read More
Explanations for Sinking Soil Good home inspectors don’t just check out the interior of a home; they check the exterior and even the yard for clues that something “just isn’t right.” So, when my client’s inspector noticed a depression in the backyard of their under-contract St. Louis Park home, he raised the possibility that the...Read More
“Mamas, Don’t Let Your Boys Grow Up to Be Cowboys Congressmen” “Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys. Don’t let ’em pick guitars or drive them old trucks. Let ’em be doctors and lawyers and such. Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys. ‘Cos they’ll never stay home and...Read More
Prescription: ‘Take 2 4 Aspirin’ Seeing as how the current approach doesn’t seem to be working out so well, I hereby propose a “do-over” in dealing with the aftermath of The Crash of ’08. Exactly what do I have in mind? Instead of: -Rewarding the perpetrators with bailouts; –Punishing savers with the double-barreled whammy of...Read More
Preventing Depression — Financial & Otherwise[Editor’s Note: Realtors are private citizens and taxpayers, too. You’d have to be living in cave not to be aware of — and outraged by — the conduct of Wall Street principals in the ongoing financial mess. The following post is a response to that behavior.] Dismayed — infuriated? disgusted?...Read More