Prospective Home Sellers’ Four Big Sins: Music, Mirrors, and Masking Scents & Paint Like Richard Nixon and Watergate, in real estate, too, “the cover-up is worse than the crime.” In that vein, here are four things that home Sellers misguidedly do to throw Buyers (and their agents) off the, umm . . . scent. One....Read More
Porous, Virtual Political Borders + Tsunami of Outside Money People who decry the outsized influence wielded by sparsely-populated states in the electoral college (think, North & South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and Rhode Island) are missing a key point: thanks to porous borders — and lax campaign finance laws — many of the elections in those states are...Read More
The Fannie and Freddie Sideshow What do you call two companies that have cumulatively lost tens of billions, are now wards of the state, and continue to receive multi-billion dollar government subsidies? If their names are “Fannie” and “Freddie,” the answer is: the world’s two biggest red herrings. Or, if you prefer, a sideshow to...Read More
Is it “Always a Good Time to Buy?” Never ask a barber if you need a haircut. –anonymous Barber’s corollary: never waste time on someone who isn’t sure they need a haircut. –Ross Kaplan So, The New York Times ran a piece last week basically saying that — surprise, surprise — Realtors always think “now”...Read More
