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Josh Plummer, my favorite guy at Flagstar Bank, does a great job of keeping me up on the latest in the world of mortgages. He does it without making me yawn, which is a compliment, of course. Plummer recently put me on notice about a change in the law that makes PMI (Private […]

Just got back from a seminar on mortgage fraud conducted by Phil Seaver from Seaver Title Company and sponsored by Julie Plotnik from Victory Home Loans. Interesting stuff.
It seems that Michigan has the distinction of being the number one state for mortgage fraud. That certainly is a dubious honor. To fight the […]

This is only a test.
The last few days I have been having troubles with wordpress, again. I’ve got two posts that just are not showing up even though they say they are ‘published’. So I am tossing this one up to see what it does. Sorry to bore you with this.
UPDATE:  You […]

Tomorrow our listing at 663 Purdy will be part of the Great Realtor Race, an event sponsored by the Birmingham-Bloomfield Realtor Network. While this event is primarily geared toward Realtors, I would be thrilled to see potential buyers, curious neighbors, and any other nice people at Purdy between 10 and 1 on Tuesday.
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I have been in and out of participating in the Carnival of Real Estate. Mostly out lately. But I figured it would be a good thing to get back into the swing of things since I am hosting it in March. So I zipped off an entry this week and as I […]

Yesterday Brian Dickerson put out a very good piece about property taxes in the Freep. Long story short, Brian is right. Proposal A needs to be shelved. The sooner the better. But I will get to my question for Brian shortly. My first order of business is to highlight the […]

The credit score – as mysterious as a gypsy palm reading? Kind of, yea. Sometimes I’m surprised that some credit scores are better than it appears they should be and others are worse. Why? I have no idea. This system is not perfect and nobody knows exactly how it works (strange […]

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PC165259, originally uploaded by urban_tank.
A scene from Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills.
This is part of our public art series.
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It should come as no surprise to outsiders that Metro Detroit scrapped most of its mass transit system in the 1950’s. Afterall, we are still the automotive capital of the world. Clearly our short sided protectionist rush to support our main industry backfired. Metro Detroit has become one of the most segregated […]

Faithful readers, I owe you more in the way of a market update, but I just came across these stats on our MLS and I am going to throw them up for now. I will be back in a few days with some legitimate market analysis. January has turned into an extremely busy month […]

We did an little informal survey today of things that people liked about living in Berkley, Michigan, which is not to be confuse with Berkeley, California. For some reason they have an extra ‘e’ out there on the left coast. Many more favorites were mentioned, but these were a few that came up […]

Over the next week we will be putting copies of HUD’s in the mail for our clients who bought or sold a home in 2006. We are not tax advisors (duh!) but there can be taxable consequences from buying or selling a home. So be on the look out, and if your HUD […]