This isn’t exactly mortgage-related, but it’s in the ballpark, so I didn’t want to miss an opportunity to lambast “Premiere” Martin O’Malley for what amounts to yet another attack on Maryland business. Again I ask, how business “unfriendly” must The People’s Republic of Maryland become before all the businesses simply pick up and leave?
In his […]

As part of my small “portfolio” of real estate investments, I’m in the process now of renting an apartment out. It’s one of those little things that can be annoying, but it’s generally worthwhile to do it yourself rather than pay someone else to do it, unless you have a LOT of properties. In that […]

From what I can tell, the mainstream U.S. press seems absolutely determined to write about the “mortgage catastrophe” that’s “about to hit” the U.S. borrowing scene. It’s one part frightening, one part obnoxious and one part amusing - the reporting, that is, not the pending world destruction that shall result from past subprime lending mistakes. […]

I was reading an article in the Wall Street Journal today when something caught my eye. The article is about one’s primary residence, and why it’s a bad idea to consider it a primary investment for retirement. To an extent, I agreed with what the reporter was writing, but not entirely. He correctly points out […]