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Heeeeeeeere’s Your New Landlord! »

This is just crazy.  Have you heard this story about Ed McMahon being in foreclosure?  Have you also heard that Donald Trump swooped in at the last moment to rescue Ed McMahon from foreclosure?
The big question is, how does a man who has made as much money as Ed McMahon wind up in foreclosure?  Poor [...]

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More Good News from The Sun? »

What, it can’t be.  The Baltimore Sun with a positive story about the housing market?  Its true.  I know, you’re thinking it must be a misprint, but I’m telling you, I read it with my own two eyes.  You’ve got to look pretty hard for good news in the main stream media, especially when it [...]

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Are You A Rehabber? You Need to Know This! »

The Baltimore Sun is good for one thing in my book….crabs!  Us Marylander’s love our crabs, and when we don’t have brown paper to spread out as a table cloth, we use newspaper.  Thus - the Baltimore Sun’s greatest use.
So as I was eating crabs on the back deck at my in-laws today, I noticed [...]

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Great Neighborhood Or Great Hype »

On July 22, 2008 the wonderful Washington Post printed a piece, entitled “Mortgage Crisis Reverses Tide of Urban Renewal” The gist of the article was that Reservoir Hill; a shining beacon of hope for urban renewal during the Real Estate Boom of the early part of this decade - is now once again just a [...]

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Another One Bites The Dust - RIP IndyMac Bank »

I can hear it now, (queue the “Another One Bites the Dust” rif) “domp, domp domp. da, domp domp domp da domp.”
How would feel if your money was parked at IndyMac?
Incidentally, I’m doing a short sale with IndyMac right now. We submitted the package on March 3rd, 2008. Our offer, $172,900. We [...]

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