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How’s your market holding up? The New York Times has graphed the Case-Shiller Index for home prices across the U.S. in the Case-Shiller markets. They’re all ugly. Here’s Los Angeles and San Francisco for us Californians. Check out the charts on NYTimes.com for your market.
I suppose it works in my favor that I’ve never been a big fan of home ownership. While many consumers (and experts) like to tout the advantages of owning your home as opposed to renting, the numbers in many cases (and again this is my own personal experience) don’t always add up. With that in [...]
This is a reader response from Jim Brown (no relation) to our recent post: The Blame Game Continued: Is CRA at Fault? Jim Brown is a 25 year veteran of the mortgage business managing sales and marketing. If you’d like to respond at length to one of our posts send us an email at tips@blownmortgage.com. [...]