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I’ll be on the airwaves again this coming Sunday, January 25 at 6:00PM CST and I must admit I’m rather excited about it. This time around I’ll be a talking with Juli Doty who, through her amazing thirst for knowledge and self improvement, made herself into one of the foremost experts in real estate. She [...]

Last Wednesday  I was fortunate enough to be featured on The Maxon Show over at Utah’s KTALK AM 630. Host, Mark Maxon was an absolute pleasure to speak with. The man is as passionately idealistic as he is straightforwardly realistic. Add that to an over 3 decade long sales career for Fortune 500 and Fortune [...]

Poppoff with Mary Jane Popp is a fast-paced, magazine radio show heard on KAHI AM 950. It is dedicated to keeping their listeners on the cutting edge of today’s hot button issues. Poppoff says what it does and does what it says. The show, much like its charming host, is energetic, upbeat, entertaining and motivational. [...]

Last Saturday, I had the pleasure of talking with Sam Bushman on his new radio show, Real Estate in Focus. Sam grew up in the real estate industry, pretty much like I did.  His father was a general contractor and Sam spent his childhood summers hauling plywood to the rooftops.  He’s been a real estate [...]

The latest report on new residential construction was released by the Commerce Department yesterday and it that housing starts and permits dropped 4.5% bringing new construction to it’s lowest level since 1959. Building permits, an indicator of future construction, also fell sharply, by 12%, to a record low of 708,000 annualized units. Permits for single-family homes, considered by [...]

When most people think of making money through real estate investments, they usually think of purchasing property under market value, slapping on a new coat of paint, adding a picket fence and then selling it above market value as quickly as possible or simply put, the fix and flip. The primason why the fix and [...]

I came across another good reason why investing in real estate might be a really good idea right now. For the past couple of days an article entitled Dems Target Private Retirement Accounts has been circulating around the web and has actually managed to get quite a few people worried. The title alone is already [...]

I think there’s a growing misconception that it’s a bad idea to invest in real estate right now. What happens is people read the newspapers or turn on the television and they get all these numbers, about how foreclosure rates have risen and how property values continue to plummet all around the country. And so [...]

It’s settled. Come January 20, 2009, Barack Obama will be the new guy in the White House and he definitely has his work cut out for him. For one thing, he’ll be dealing with with a very real issue in housing and it becomes important for all of us, regardless of any and all political [...]

U.S. mortgage applications rise 2.8%
By PBN Staff 
WASHINGTON – The number of mortgage applications filed nationwide last week rebounded from the 2008 low of the week before, as rates dipped slightly, the Mortgage Bankers Association said today in its weekly report.
The trade group’s seasonally adjusted Market Composite Index – a measure of overall mortgage loan application volume – rose [...]