We get asked this question – or face people’s assumptions – regularly these days. Basically our answer is that there’s no reason to wait to sell if your reason is to get a higher price than in the current market. That may sound like a contrarian view, but it’s really not. It’s born out by… Read the full article…

Just not literally. The following is a video of two Corvettes drag racing on The Woodlands Pkwy on Thanksgiving Day. The outcome is, well, nothing to be thankful for…

Economics Professors Roger Backhouse and Bradley Bateman make a case in a recent editorial that with the fall of communism, the economics world has become too focused on abstractions and have, like big too-big-to-fail modern financial institutions, possibly lost sight of the larger economic problems and discussions a democratic society should be having in the… Read the full article…

Sometimes I record my piano playing so I can listen back as a form of practice. Just like our own voices often sound strange to us on recordings, same with playing an instrument, so recording can be a good form of practice. Naturally I mostly have time on weekends for practice. I turn off the… Read the full article…

I like to criticize media bad practices – it just makes all our lives harder when they employ bad tactics. But media is a business, an industry. With so many available channels, it’s never been harder to get a break-through headline. With Americans’ frustrations with traditional medical complex, HMO run-arounds, costly medicines and insurance premiums… Read the full article…

We’re very proud of our new custom site that will continue to be built out with even more features and information over time. This site better serves our visitors and brings a wealth of valuable components to our building agent base as well, including a private back-end that contains valuable training, mentoring, and other resources…… Read the full article…

I enjoy talking to colleagues who have been in real estate for a few decades. Many can remember back when the standard residential purchase contract was only 3 pages. Today it is 9 pages… before applicable addenda and notices. Now a standard single-family purchase contract all-included can involve a 20+ page package. And it’s definitely… Read the full article…

As reported by HuffPost: A lame-duck Congress would have two months after the 2012 election to stave off the expiration of both that tax policy and the super committee’s “automatic” cuts. The most likely scenario: The super committee locks up along partisan lines and, after the 2012 election, bipartisan negotiators deal with the tax cuts… Read the full article…

What another ride this week in the markets, but you had to read between the lines to understand how everything that’s going on may affect the housing market through consumer confidence, banking uncertainty, and The Fed’s “Operation Twist” which is about lowering long-term rates (think mortgage rates). Operation Twist Freakonomics at the NY Times has… Read the full article…

Okay so I’m remiss not to have posted in almost a month, but frankly not a lot has changed – we’re still on a bumpy path sideways, and that’s to be expected. It fits the fundamentals and the fundamentals, while they could have shifted, they haven’t. There’s nothing really new going on, and that includes… Read the full article…