Naomi Wolf certainly isn't THE most ignorant person on the face of this planet but she is running hard to win that spot.

According to Marcus and Millichap apartment complexes are still holding as long as they can make it through the toughest year we will face yet in 2009 I quote from their website: "The challenge will be getting through 2009, which will require exceptional tenant retention, aggressive marketing at the property level and an unwavering focus on operations."

Our city/town budgets are facing terrible cuts, wouldn't it make sense to have people already being paid put in some hours?

Its cosmetically or stylistically challenged.

Instead of holding on to your loan and facing the risk of interest rate change (since bank receives fixed payment from you for 30 yrs in exchange for lump sum) - they will sell this (to someone who wants to submit a lump sum in now exchange for receiving fixed future payments for 30 years, like an insurance company).The bank is an intermediary between buyers and sellers of assets - they make a cut on the spread and transaction costs.

I don't understand any of this...but, on the face...it seems that getting a property appraised at 115k for 60k should be a good deal.

Hoopman acknowledged that securing funding for these projects could be Habitat's biggest challenge.

Unfinished new construction sounds like a challenging but fun part of RE investing.

How can an adult in this world say with a straight face they got a loan and didn’t know they have a fixed or variable rate mortgage and if a variable rate on what schedule it adjusts.

Lamar Ferren )Are you up to the challenge?