I am in the middle of a very unusual situation. My company gave my borrower an FHA loan for the short sale that we had been negotiating since April 2009 in Oceanside, CA. Today I get a frantic email from my borrower that closed escrow and recorded January 22nd stating that she gave the key and instructions to the contractor to get into the … [Read more...]
I had a “The Purple Cow” experience yesterday
February 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
If you are reading this you are probably familiar with Seth Godin and his unbelievable abilities to communicate and verbalize things that we think about every day related to marketing but, for one reason or another, we fail transform into any sort of action. Yesterday I had an "aha moment" (Jeffrey Gitomer) that made me think of Seth's book … [Read more...]
Decentralization of Real Estate Data
February 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Last night I saw the movie Avatar. What a treat! For those of you that have not seen it, check out the trailer and you will hear the line, “son, you are not in Kansas anymore”. That prompted a thought- provoking concept that required a new post. If we look at the latest Case Schiller report, the first thing we notice is that there was an … [Read more...]
All in all, San Diego is still the greatest place in the world to live
February 1, 2010 By 1 Comment
They say “You can take the boy out of New York but you can NEVER take the New York out of the boy”. I am proof that this is undoubtedly true. At first, when we moved to San Diego 9 years ago, the culture shock was pretty dramatic. It took years to find a half-decent pizza place, and I have yet to find a bagel that is even close to an H & … [Read more...]