If you don't like it, then don't drive and much as you do...or learn to drive a little more conservatively.Life is about adaptation...as generally speaking, we nowadays don't like adapting to the changing world...but it's necessary.

Buzz - are involved at all in real estate?

Nowadays you can get a ton of information about property online.

Are things going better nowadays?

Not only would I have a well-built and nice looking home, but I'd also be saving the past since so many morons just bulldoze that stuff down nowadays showing no care about the past.I also had the idea of moving out to a place like South Dakota where they have those old ghost towns, and maybe buying an old fixer-upper building in a ghost town and restoring.

It seems as if renting is the way to go nowadays since there are so many foreclosures and people are losing their homes and need a place to live.

Aren't most loans non-conforming nowadays, anyway?

it matters what type of business in you're in, what business entity will be most effective for you (taxes) and which will provide you with the greatest protections (assets).having said that - don't get caught up in all the craziness of the ultimate buzz word in rei - "asset protection".a business has to have a plan.

How good are the banks nowadays working with homeowners in her situation?

This place is buzzing like crazy.