Chris Sweeney
Rents Are Going To Explode - John Burns
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011, 8:00 pm
John Burns says top rental markets about to "explode"
Ansel Harris
FREDDIE MAC PREDICTS BEST HOUSING YEAR IN A DECADE.
just wanted to share with everyone.Is Housing Poised to Return to Pre-Crisis Glory?The recent predictions from analysts of a dark year for housing based on tight inventory combined with rapid home price appreciation a...
Zach Wright
Wifi - rent by the room house hack
Wondering if there is a "best practice" for offering shared wifi to tenants when renting by the room.
Seems like it would be important to offer this along with cable, utilities, laundry, etc... but wondering if this ...
Mary Derman
Preparing for the future
An economy recovering from a recession, crippling student debt, and an overly competitive job market are just a few of the things to list when naming the struggles millennials are facing in their early lives. Never be...
Rebecca Belnap
The Feds Raised the rate today
Just got an email that the fed raised the rate by .25 today. That was expected. What wasn't expected is that instead of planning to do 2 more increases in 2017, they said in the meeting that they are planning 3. I'...
Yaya Y.
FHLB V LIBOR rates? PROS/CONS
I would like to know everyone's opinions on the scenario below.You want to get a mortgage for 650k, one bank quotes you with an interest rate of x basis points over the FHLB 5 year rate, and the other bank's rate is ...
Treivor Cashion
Correlation in property values and rent
Ever since I watched "The Big Short" I've been intrigued by the 2007-2008 real estate market crash...and while I know that the crash was caused by loose lending standards combined with ARMs, uninformed borrowers, limi...
Scott Trench
More Riffing on Mortgage Rates (I think they will keep ticking up!)
As we enter 2H 2023 and head into 2024, I expect mortgage rates will increase and eclipse 8% on average. First, I expect the federal funds rate to rise one more time by 25 bps, to continue to rise before settling in w...
Nathan Stotts
Springfield, MO - What's driving and sustaining the drastic housing price increases?
Hi SW MO folks (and SGF investors outside the area),Apologies, this may come off a little rant-ie, but hoping to get an educational discussion going. As the title suggests, I'm trying to understand the key driver of t...
Kay March
If appraisals are based on comps, how do prices rise over time?
This is a technical question that arises from the painful experience of having an appraisal come in low. It happened two years ago when a VA appraiser, citing comps, said that the price my buyer had agreed to pay for ...