Economy
There are too many wonderful homes on the market to dazzle us this week, so we shall just beat the heat with all of them! First up, if this home is still available after I hit “publish”, well, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle. It is beautiful, it is a bargain. You have heard me wax…
Been meaning to tell you that in Palo Alto, CA. the state of Texas actually has a recruiting OFFICE. It’s no secret that Texas, under Governor Rick Perry, is pretty dang aggressive about inviting everyone here to work, move a business, and just plain live. Perry is twisting a lot of arms to recruit companies…
We have been telling you this for months now: home prices around North Texas have never been higher. Sales of pre-owned home in the first half of 2013 are running more than 20 percent higher than in the same period of 2012. In fact, that is a new North Texas sales record for a single…
I mean, he played a role: Kwame Kilpatrick was mayor of one of America’s largest cities at the age of 31. He resigned in 2008, after pleading guilty to obstruction of justice in a scandal involving sexually explicit text messages and an extramarital affair with his chief of staff. OK, so a lot of politicians dabble extra-maritally.…
We all knew it was coming as city and state leaders came to an impasse with Detroit’s creditors, and now the largest municipality in history has filed for bankruptcy protection. This is big news for everyone, not just Dallas, as I’m sure creditors of the more than $19 billion in municipal debt rung up by…
