Here’s the most important reading of the week, hands down: “The Fight Over Foreclosure Fees” What’s being discussed, in accurate detail, is the very future of our industry.
“No aspect of the U.S. mortgage business will go untouched by this,” said one attorney I spoke with, on condition of anonymity. “It won’t be long [...]

It’s like something out of a movie. There’s been a crisis that affects the whole country .. maybe the whole world .. and the President convenes a group of the smartest experts and the most powerful investors he can assemble to advise him. But of course, in the movies, after a long dramatic argument, somebody [...]

“”People are not in it to flip like back in the old economy. The new economy dictates that you have to have a long time horizon.”
–Matt Martinez
I read a really strange article on CNN Money last week. The entire point of the article was about how Real Estate investors are helping neighborhoods and cities around [...]

Just last month, I remember talking about “Slow News Days” .. that really hasn’t come up at all in August, though!! In fact, there’s been almost too much to keep up with. So for this week’s roundup, I want to focus on a handful of truly excellent articles that help sort out the big [...]

All too often, media reporting on the housing industry is too shallow and superficial to be really useful for those of us who are in the business. If you’re like me, you want to see original analysis by experts who can connect the dots and explain their logic every step of the way. Seeking [...]

There’s been a strange mix of headlines about Deutsche Bank this week. One Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal was reporting about their role in financing the housing bubble, and the ugly fact that despite being “among the first to flag weaknesses in the market as early as 2005,” Deutsche Bank continued to make billions [...]

In the past week, I’ve seen a lot of bloggers, on AR and elsewhere, try to play the same old “Glass Half Full” routine with the latest round of economic statistics. Most months, I’d call it a matter of opinion and move on…but June is very different. I think the indicators are so consistently [...]

Mike Calhoun: My Vision >>
Last Friday, we debuted the NEW Short Sale Engine .. and the response has been fantastic. It seems like our new packages are EXACTLY what the industry is looking for right now!!
This week, though, we’re going to be getting back to what RealtyInfusion readers have come to expect from us: [...]

Mike here .. taking over the blog today because I had to share this. I’ve seen similar infographics before, but this is the best I’ve come across because it puts the astronomical numbers into a very human perspective .. this is what a trillion dollars looks like…

WHY DID I POST THIS TODAY? Not just because [...]

Mike Calhoun: My Vision >>
Here’s a fact that woke me up more than the coffee did: “25.5 percent of consumers now have a credit score of 599 or below.” Wow…Good morning!!
We’re working harder every day because this Short Sale market just keeps building momentum. Thanks to ActiveRain, we’ve got a lot of new readers [...]