housing slump

Good News for First Time Home Buyers

by Joe Spake on February 18, 2009

Yesterday, President Obama signed the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (aka “the stimulus”) into law. While it is the largest spending bill in America’s history, and no one in Congress had fully read it, the much talked about perk for first time home buyers did make it into the bill. Here is a [...]

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Bail Out Rap and Rant

by Joe Spake on February 1, 2009

If you don’t want to read this post, at least watch the second video!Billions of dollars to bail out the financial markets, which they use a significant portion of to pay out billions in bonuses to Wall Street fat cats, all the while tightening credit. Wasn’t the bailout’s purpose to loosen the financial markets and [...]

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NAR endorses bill to save seller-funded gifts

by Joe Spake on September 17, 2008

Inman News Service reports that the National Association of Realtors now endorses seller funded downpayment contributions, which were outlawed (effective October 1) by last summer’s housing bill. A new bill was immediately introduced to re-instate the the seller funded gifts. I have posted about this before, but basically, since the seller cannot legally pay the [...]

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