We are noticing an alarming trend among new licensees to the real estate sales industry are not affiliating with the REALTOR® Association. There are even real estate brokerages exploiting this trend by marketing to licensees by pitching the arguments that a licensee can save the dues money and avoid those “rules” we saddle ourselves with. Before [...]
Myths and Legends
The Dreaded 3.8% Tax on Real Estate NOT! Since this particular urban legend continues to float around, it would seem the best way to to address this issue is to provide you with the National Association of REALTOR’S (NAR) discussion on the subject. Actually, this is one of many articles regarding this health care tax [...]
Datalanche!
New word! A datalanche is the condition of too much information falling on the interested observer, creating intellectual numbness. Since the “housing crises” began, the amount of statistical data put forth to explain the crises has expanded exponentially. From Case-Shiller to Core-Logic®, from Harvard to Texas A & M, from the National Association of REALTORS® [...]
Goring The Sacred Ox
The media commentary on the housing crises, perpetuated by a plethora of talking heads with all manner of opposing solutions, continues unabated in this country. We are pretty sure that many of the bright ideas offered to fix the problem are emanating from tenured professors with no fear of income loss, hence little risk of [...]
Real Estate Outlook For 2011: Recovery
Cleaning up the Mess If we were to look at the national real estate market for the past 4 years is we might look at natural disaster, it could be compared to the Haitian Earthquake and Katrina combined. A lot of flimsy houses in Haiti (like flimsy mortgages), and a poor response to the problem [...]




