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Can the animals predict our next “storm”? Should we all be listening to our “primal” instincts a bit more? We probably should. I was doing a long trail run last week in the Colorado backcountry outside of Steamboat Springs, Colorado. …
One home in Houston valued at 115k flooded 16 times in 18 years netting the homeowner 800k! Did you know that in highly damaged areas in Houston only 15% of property owners had flood insurance! How does Houston impact every…
This weekend I was asked to lend on a file in Colorado. The borrower mentioned his zestimate was 250k. I was intrigued because the house was not in the nicest area. His zestimate value sucked…. Zillow also thinks it sucks…
Shh! There is a big secret going on in the banking community. Do you know what it is? About six months ago I started seeing an interesting trend. Many banks were starting to be a little more conservative on their…
Jim Rogers, the famous investor and republican supporter who called the last recession, recently said “there was a 100 percent probability that the U.S. economy would be in a downturn within one year.” (see articles below). I’m not convinced we…
In 2016 commercial real estate deal volume fell by 11% for the first time since 2009! According to a recent Wall Street Journal report, some prominent real estate investors are reducing their holdings and taking money off the table. …
Last week I wrote about the large increase in flips in Atlanta. I was surprised that Atlanta was above its pre-recession peak. This got me thinking about Denver. In the Denver news today, it was reported that foreclosures recently…
A recent Trulia analysis of U.S. listings shows that 3.9 percent of homes that moved from for-sale to pending moved back to for-sale again, nearly double the rate in 2015. What is the number one reason sales typically fall…
2017 promises to be an interesting year for real estate investors. Will the bulls continue to run rampant driving up prices or are the bears going to finally come out to play? Although real estate is market specific (for…
What does great clips have to do with real estate? I went to get a haircut at great clips at 8 am on a Tuesday morning and the place was packed and yet a month earlier on the same date…