http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2014/12/21/detroit-blight-neighborhoods/20705355/Just read this article about a Detroit man hanging in there and trying to make the city better.  At the end of th...

You can spin the increasing debt as "consumer confidence," alongside manipulated statistics such as "lowest unemployment rate" (look around you, do you really think we don't have an employment problem when all the hea...

I just had this article come across my desk. I found it interesting that New Orleans is so much higher than the surrounding parishes. I have avoided New Orleans for some time because of Insurance costs, crime statisti...

Any Akron investors see the recent articles about the city’s new proposal? Apparently Akron has one of the higher eviction rates in Ohio (and even nationwide), and there is a proposal out that would allow judges to se...

Hey everyone,I am looking at buying a house in an upper middle class part of town.  The house is off market, so I am getting it at a discount.  The only thing that concerns me is someone was recently beat to death in ...

What blogs and online data sources do my fellow armchair economists follow? I like calculatedriskblog.com and http://www.lpsvcs.com/NewsRoom/IndustryData/Pages/default.aspx from the loan servicing people.

Also use...

Millions face eviction, poverty as unemployment benefits expire with COVID-19 relief bill in limbohttps://apple.news/AfFH3WC3oRf...

Was in the process of purchasing a investment property and the residential bank notified us of the new policys that were put out last Friday restricting residential loans from 3.2% to 7% for investors.  
  anyone kno...

A n00b contacted me about the numerous "great deals" he was seeing FSBOs offering on their condos throughout Florida.  As a resident of the Hurricane Sunshine State, I can tell you it's Fool's Gold.  The assessments. ...

This is probably the best article I've seen so far on what is going on in the mortgage marketplace. 
The Coronavirus Meltdown
The current Coronavirus crisis is having a critical impact on the Mortgage Industry, whic...