Second Shelters
Jeff Harding makes an excellent point. What we heard yesterday proves our housing market is years from the bottom, and those of us who keep saying, OK, this is it, are continually blown away by the sweeps of foreclosures and short sales that are coming on the market. Those are watering down prices and will…
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Last week I told you how New York state is gigging out of state home owners for state taxes even if you don’t sleep there. Head west to the Rockies for this tall tale: the Colorado Association of Ski Towns, or CAST, is holding off on plans to hunt down vacation rental owners who aren’t…
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I’m just going to say it: is this administration trying to KILL OFF the U.S. housing market? By now, if you are in the real estate business, you are thinking about serious drinking. Save the calories if you live in Dallas: we did OK. Not great, but OK. The S&P/Case-Shiller report says overall, the nation’s…
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I know, it’s kind of mean and I couldn’t bring myself to circumcise a fly, but just the idea that they are legislating all this stuff! San Francisco may ban infant circumcision as part of a national movement to stem the procedure which experts say is purely religious tradition but offers no benefits. I mean,…
Read MoreRemember when the Wall Street Journal told us crime was so bad in Mexico that even the Mayor of Monterrey, Fernando Larrazabal had fled and re-located his family to the Dallas area? (I found out it was to Las Colinas, and y’all got mad at me. I also found out on a visit to La…
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More private planes from Mexico flew into San Antonio in 2010 in the biggest jump since the city was authorized to clear immigration for international travelers, and this means cha ching for housing sales in the Alamo City. That’s why I am kissing this plane. Preliminary data from the city’s Aviation Department shows that almost…
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