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Category Archives: General Interest
Identifying a Meth Lab
The City and County of Boulder (Colorado) has a great website resource for identifying a meth lab.
With the rise in foreclosures and more agents being the first people to enter recently vacant homes after and possibly during a foreclosure, a little education can go along way for your own safety and the safety of your clients. Going into [...]
Condo Conversions and the Dark Underbelly of the Subprime Mess
I just walked out of the second recent condo conversion in a month that I saw back on the market way at about 30% of what it had sold for. It had been ‘flipped’ in 2006 by some investors. In my humble opinion, it seems suspicious to me when large numbers of foreclosures show up all at once in [...]
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My Top Ten Posts – Not just real estate and not just me.
Out of curiosity, I had to check to see what people were reading outside of my main page and feed. Essentially what posts attracted the most hits from search engines and links from other blogs. Here’s how they show up in order of popularity.
Why Johnny Can’t Code and How to Help Him. by Curtis Barron - What! [...]
The Armchair Economist – Fed Rate Cuts and the Knee Jerk Reaction
I’m putting on my armchair economist’s hat today. I’m still amazed that people would get excited enough to buy stocks just because the Federal Reserve announces a rate cut but it happens more times than nought. You would think that a savvy investor would buy a particular stock based off of expected growth of the asset [...]
Who is reading your Blog? Other agents?
It’s quite tempting to want to write about everything that’s going on. I mean, isn’t that where the majority of good blog fodder comes from? But to be fair, I realized that if the agents that were on the other side of the table were anything like me, I would want to watch [...]
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"I solved the Rubik's Cube!"
You have no idea how long I’ve wanted to say that. I actually bought a cube six years ago and could solve the first 2 layers. Unfortunately, I never really had a good reason for actually trying to finish it. It’s not as entertaining as one might first think. It’s [...]
Celebrity photo matching gone wrong. Some "Humbug"
I’m not sure how this helps MyHeritage.com get you interested in your family tree. But it’s a great gimmick to get some traffic to your website and put you on the map. A little P.T. Barnum to get the web traffic rolling. I’m still working on how to put some spin [...]
Apple's New iPhone, up to the hype?
Apple launches iPhone to a chorus of bloggers screaming like girls at a Beatles concert. I have to admit I was sucked in for a minute. I mean, as a Realtor, I want to have something like the iPhone, but without it costing me $600 dollars. Notice I wasn’t fooled by the $599. I’ll actually [...]
Timing the market – Real Estate Slow Stochastic
Just for fun, I wanted to take the pricing data stats from my previous post about market timing and apply a slow stochastic to the prices.
Here’s essentially how they work with stocks.
On the lower part of the image is an example of a slow stochastic. A buy signal is interpreted when the %k (green line) [...]
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