Seems to me we're on the well-greased skids to super-socialism.For me the real question is: How to position one's self to prosper in that environment?

However, the electrical wiring at the time did not meet water environment codes and I had to find mining cable that blew up the budget 5 fold in that department.

In this environment banks don’t want to take back any more houses than they have to.

In an inflationary environment, fixed rate debt, such as a mortgage gets cheaper in real dollars over time.

Recently the economy got all wobbly and creates an amazing environment for investing in real estate.

Using any kind of positive appreciation number in this real estate environment is a fools game.

"Given the current economic and business environment — and to further align our interests with those of our shareholders — we are making some difficult decisions to reduce or eliminate programs that do not directly impact our ability to serve our clients, customers and communities," Bank of America spokeswoman Kelly Sapp said in an e-mail.

Granted , today is a little different environment , but the fundamentals are still the same.

I am not against helping the environment but people are not going to want to live in the home because of being advertised this way.

We do this in volume, but keep in mind we have been able to systemize and do so becuase we have our attorneys format and verify our processes and contracts on an as-needed (proactive)basis, which has been quite often because of the changes in the lending/foreclosure environment.