Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Manny Ramirez tested positive for a banned performance-enhancing substance, incurring an immediate 50-game ban and serving as the highest-profile reminder yet that the use of such drugs in the testing era may have been reduced, but not eradicated. Read the full story

The following is from Universalhub.com The state Attorney General’s office has gotten a temporary restraining order against a New York firm that allegedly used ads in the Metro to drum up business among homeowners facing foreclosure by promising legal services it couldn’t deliver. Among other things, the company demanded $1,500 up front from prospective clients, [...]

I thought George Will provided some good financial advice on Meet the Press “Never play poker with a man name Slim. Never buy a Rolex from from a guy out of breath. And never, never take financial advice from a guy who screams.”

AIG employs over 100,000 people in 130 countries. Where are the bailouts from the other 129 countries? Do they know something Congress doesn’t? Source: Wall Street Journal

This morning I had an interesting conversation with an owner of gas/service station in Lexington. He was telling me how his business is great because consumers are no longer buying new cars and so they need to service (repair) their existing cars. Just in the last four months the following car dealerships have gone out [...]

Attention Boston Real Estate Blog readers don’t forget to set your clocks ahead by an hour this weekend, as daylight saving time begins Sunday. “Springing forward” creates another hour of sunlight in the evening. It also has some effects on health and public safety that many people are unaware of. From US News & World [...]

As you may have discovered, the MLSPIN Multiple Listing Service search function is not working well, and the results are all messed up. It will get better over the coming days, I promise. Wait, what were you doing looking for a new home, anyway??

I just came back from a Boston real estate conference at the Sheraton Hotel in the Back Bay. Listed below are a few points that you might find interesting. * 1995 only 7% of homebuyers used the internet for their home search. Today 84% of buyers use the internet. *81% of internet home searchers use [...]

Hello. The new layout is intended to make the design more appealing and to encourage more people to contact me about being their buyer’s agent. The blog entries remain readily available in the middle column, but the other two columns should help out viewers making their first visits to the site. Three columns you ask? [...]

Two high-profile musicals have been nixed from the fall Boston theater schedule. Brigadoon was scheduled to move into the Colonial theater during a pre-Broadway tryout (remember those?). It has been “postponed”, according to the producers because of “the lack of an appropriate Broadway theatre in spring 2009.” Plans to premiere the New York City bound [...]