Existing home sales fall below expectations

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

NAR statistics exhibit that July's existing bag income were substantially beneath what analysts expected NAR statistics exhibit that July’s existing bag income were substantially beneath what analysts due

The stylish accumulation reveals that the sort of Americans completing purchases of existing homes lapse starkly beneath economists’ expectations in July, according to the National Association of Realtors.Defined as complete transactions for townhomes, single-family units, co-ops and condominiums, existing bag income dropped 27.2 percent. The fall to 3.83 meg homes is significantly beneath analysts’ sticking estimates of 5.26 meg and accounts for a 25.5 proportionality modify from the 5.14 meg units oversubscribed in July 2009.According to the report, single-family bag sales, which statement for the eld of existing ..read more

Federal Housing Authority offers underwater homeowners refinancing

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

Federal Housing Authority offers underwater homeowners refinancing. agent Housing Authority offers underwater homeowners refinancing.

Over the time some years, as bag values hit dropped and strategic defaults hit risen, some homeowners haw hit proven to encounter a artefact to assuage their worries without abandoning their homes. Now thanks to the agent Housing Authority, they strength be healthy to do that.Starting on Sept 7, destined underwater borrowers whose mortgages are not individual by the bureau haw be healthy to obtain a refinanced, federally-backed mortgage. However, to qualify, those homeowners staleness be underway on their existing mortgage, and their lenders module hit to concord to indite soured at small 10 proportionality of the complimentary capital balance.“We’re throwing a chronicle distinction discover ..read more

Why I switched to WordPress

Monday, September 28th, 2009

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Gregg and Dale were wondering why I switched blogging platforms from Squarespace to WordPress.

If you were not wondering, you should stop reading now. :-)

Here’s what I’m doing with WordPress that was  impossible with Squarespace, even after repeated appeals to their tech support.

Comment spam management.  I get between 5 and 20 spam comments per day, and it’s been increasing.  Squarespace has no support for automatically flagging obvious spam (like contains the word “Cialis”), using blacklist sites, or CAPTCHA.  Wordpress not only has all these options, but features like “Moderation required, unless a comment ..read more

Can you ever stop shopping around?

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

In today’s column, I talk about a small business owner who believed in the values advertised by his Big Five bank. He thought that RBC had his best interests at heart.

He was turned down every time he asked for a Euro account to save on currency conversion charges until he said he was going to move his business elsewhere. Then, the bank offered to give him what he had been denied for two years before.

This kind of behaviour is commonplace in the business world. Companies fight to increase their market share by offering juicy incentives to new customers. Meanwhile, they ignore their existing clients, who only get their attention when they threaten to leave.

This means you have to change your behaviour as a customer. ..read more