Home is All Relative
I’m not very hip when it comes to music, but thankfully my husband is a music connoisseur. One video and song I’ve become especially fond of is Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zero’s song Home. There’s just something about the video and lyrics that makes me think back to the free loving days of the 1960′s. Of course I wasn’t alive during that decade, so I can only postulate what it may have been like during the love-ins and hippie era of flower children and...
Read MorePsychic Predictions
A couple of days ago I mentioned a comment I overhead. The one about how “everybody” is having to short sale their homes so “everybody’s” credit will be affected by the housing market. I also mentioned at the very end of the post (if anyone actually read to the very end) how I predicted 4 years ago that the housing market wouldn’t keep rising. My main reason for this prediction was that the houses in my area were selling for astronomical prices. Prices that...
Read MoreThe Lemming Effect
I’ve been battling bronchitis for the last two weeks and haven’t been my peppy self. Hopefully this new dose of antibiotics I’m taking will kick its butt. However, I’m still dragging myself into work….of course that might be my problem. But I overheard the most irresponsible comment today at lunch, and I just had to post on it. “Their accountant told them that everybody’s credit will be effected by the housing market since so many people are walking...
Read MoreAre Financial Disasters Awaiting Your Home?
This guest post was written by Go Banking Rates, bringing you informative personal finance content and helpful tools, as well as the best interest rates on financial services nationwide. Follow them on Twitter at @GoBankingRates. There’s nothing worse than suffering the financial repercussions of house-related disaster, only to realize it could have been avoided if you had taken the necessary precautions. Many times, all you really need is an annual or bi-annual check performed that might...
Read MoreRent or Buy Revisited
After hours of discussion with my significant other, endless hemming and hawing and going back and forth on the topic of renting or buying, I’ve decided to continue renting for the next few years. The biggest factor in my decision is the mobility issue; I want the option of being able to move to a new area in 2-4 years. Though the housing market is at an all time low, my concern is getting stuck with a property that I can’t sell and may not be able to rent. My ultimate goal in is to...
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