by Glen | Mar 16, 2018 | Government Bailout, hard money, Hard Money Commercial Lending, Housing Price Trends / Information
Like many of you I had a “rocky” ride in the last real estate recession and successfully learned many “million-dollar” lessons that were very painful. One of the key takeaways from the last recession is that risks lurk in plain sight. Hindsight 20-20 it was easy to...
by Glen | Mar 1, 2018 | Hard Money Lending, Housing Price Trends / Information
Pretty crazy to think of a small task like using an iPhone or a Windows computer is increasing your mortgage rates. How can a computer or phone have any impact on rates? Apple, Microsoft, and Google are the largest holders of offshore cash piles. Under the new law...
by Glen | Feb 24, 2018 | Housing Price Trends / Information
The sharing economy has taken over. From Uber to Airbnb and now your mortgage. Are you ready to be part of the new “shared” economy? There is a new product that is backed by many Silicon Valley venture funds that allows people to partner with a fund to purchase a...
by Glen | Feb 3, 2018 | Commercial Lending valuation, Housing Price Trends / Information
Dow plunged 666 points on Friday, yet the jobs report was strong. Why the selloff? Why are treasury rates on a tear? Why did mortgage rates also jump? What does this mean for real estate? Are certain real estate sectors more impacted than others? What happened?...
by Glen | Jan 29, 2018 | Commercial Lending valuation, Housing Price Trends / Information
We’ve recently watched the federal reserve raising short term interest rates while the 10-year treasury barely moved. Inflation expectations are low, but suddenly 10-year treasuries began moving drastically higher climbing to a 10-month high and mortgage rates...
by Glen | Jan 28, 2018 | Housing Price Trends / Information
Yesterday I received an extortion letter at home (here is a copy) threatening to release information to my wife if I didn’t send immediately 3650 in bitcoin. This is the first time I’ve ever seen anything like this. It was startling the information they...
