Maybe it is just me but if I was a buyer in today's real estate market and I heard that Congress was trying to increase the $8,000 first time buyer tax credit to $15,000 and include all home buyers, I would seriously consider holding off on making a...

Last Tuesday I signed up for the online version of the Virginia Brokers Licensing Class.  It represents 180 credit hours of real estate education.  It is one of the steps needed to get a brokers license.  The other two steps are: 1.  Actively...

Last week my Google Reader sent me a post written by Karl L. Gechlik of  makeuseof.com .  I get more good tech tips from this site than any other I subscribe to.  His post is one of the better ones for the non-geek bloggers out there on how to...

A wise man once told me "As goes the California economy, So goes the US economy".  With California such a large part of our economy, it only makes sense that until that state gets its act together, the country will continue to languish.  And by the...

Don't get me wrong, I don't like the idea of a short sale.  The thought of people losing hundreds of thousands of dollars on the American Dream of homeownership (isn't that what NAR advertises) is horrible for the economy, horrible for neighborhoods...