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Pointless Pricing Tricks

Rhonda Porter on 04 3, 2009 | 27 Comments

Pointless Pricing Tricks

A few weeks ago, a home buyer shared some pricing scenarios a fellow mortgage originator was offering to them.    Scenario 1 looks like the mortgage originator wants the borrower to believe

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Where is that elusive “bottom”?

ARDELL on 04 2, 2009 | 24 Comments

Where is that elusive

[caption id="attachment_5874" align="alignleft" width="450" caption="Dow breaks 8,000 April 2, 2009"][/caption] Whether you are talking about the stock market or the housing market or the economy i

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Robert Shiller Coming to SPU

Jillayne Schlicke on 03 31, 2009 | 1 Comment

Yale Economist Robert Shiller of the Case Shiller Home Price Index will be speaking at Seattle Pacific University on Monday, April 27, 2009 at 1:00 PM.  Details are on the SPU website; hat tip Tim E

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Sunday Night Stats – Snapshot of “bottom”

ARDELL on 03 30, 2009 | 54 Comments

Sunday Night Stats - Snapshot of

Revisiting my "bottom call" of February 7th.  At the time, even those who potentially agreed with me, wanted more "proofs". But in the instant that I "called it", it was more like watching the hor

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