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Archive for April, 2007

Buyer’s agent kind of drops the ball …

Whoa! This is a good one:
From Inman News, by way of the Boston Globe:
DEAR BOB: We had a sales contract to sell our house. The buyer was supposed to pay a deposit into a trust account with the realty office representing the buyer. We expected to close with no problem.
But a few days after [...]

04/30/07 | Leave a comment »

My advice: list everything

If you’re just getting started in the process to buy a home, you might not have thought about this potential problem.
When you buy a home, you pretty much are buying the physical structure as well as anything nailed down or attached to the property.
A refrigerator is not nailed down.
Neither is a washer. Or a [...]

04/30/07 | Leave a comment »

Wait, what?

Apparently, it was a slow news day.
My blog, as well as other real estate blogs, were profiled in Sunday’s Boston Globe.
I felt it was a great article. There are some good blogs out there. It really helps buyers to have access to as much information as possible. Blogs written by agents, mortgage [...]

04/30/07 | Leave a comment »

Karl Case, comedian

I love this joke, perhaps the only one ever told about economists:
Economists are great, they’ve accurately predicted nine of the past five recessions!
Eh, so I can’t tell a joke so well.
Karl Case, uber-economist (?), professor at Wellesley College, and co-creator of the much-respected and often-quoted S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Indices spoke at the conference (twice).
He’s [...]

04/29/07 | Leave a comment »

Data released this week will clarify state of the economy

Suddenly, I’m an expert on economics?
Sort of.
All I want to say is, a lot of national economic data will be released this week, which will give us a better of idea of where our economy is headed.
Or, the data will all contradict each other, making it more difficult to figure out whether we’re headed toward [...]

04/29/07 | Leave a comment »

Syron: build more housing

I attended the Boston 2012 symposium on Thursday & Friday. It was awesome. There was a tour of several of Boston’s neighborhoods, on Thursday. We saw new low- and moderate-income based housing developments, some of which were financed by the city, state and federal governments, some built with private funds. The [...]

04/29/07 | Leave a comment »

Animal Rescue League problems still unexplained …

Just a strange turn of events.
The Animal Rescue League opened a $7 million facility in Pembroke, five years ago. The expansive 9-acre property includes the league’s state-of-the-art shelter and a single-family house built for the league’s director of operations and his family, and an adjoining 60-acre nature sanctuary and dog walk.
But, now, the league [...]

04/29/07 | Leave a comment »

Archive for April, 2007

Buyer’s agent kind of drops the ball …

My advice: list everything

Wait, what?

Karl Case, comedian

Data released this week will clarify state of the economy

Syron: build more housing

Animal Rescue League problems still unexplained …

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Archive for April, 2007

Buyer’s agent kind of drops the ball …

My advice: list everything

Wait, what?

Karl Case, comedian

Data released this week will clarify state of the economy

Syron: build more housing

Animal Rescue League problems still unexplained …

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