Real Estate
Great article in this week’s TIME Magazine, slim as it is, showing the difference in the 10% and 20% down payment model. Subscription required online, page 17 if you want to skim while at the check-out line. As you may know, the Feds (Dodd-Frank) want to increase home buyer’s “skin in the game”, requiring higher…
So you might think, home sales are off, Realtors are quitting the business left and right, the real estate gold rush is clearly over over over. So why would anyone open a new real estate brokerage firm in July 2011? One that offers agents 100% of their commission? I don’t know, but I am going…
We just returned from a spectacular weekend with friends Gary and Laurie Tipton at their beautiful home, “Tip’s Lodge” on Lake Cypress Springs. I want a lake house. Full disclosure: I’m looking at Beacon Hill, too, on Cedar Creek Lake. It’s a little closer in, and the developer is creating one of the most magnificent lake…
Fun piece in The Observer by Anna Merlan on something I told you about earlier, how great life is in Plano, Texas. This year we hear that Plano is number 12 on the life expectancy list — so if you live in Plano statistically you will live longer than if you live in Dallas. Last…
