Fear is a powerful motivator. It can drive banks to failure, nations to war and people watching their growing waistlines to put down that third slice of pizza.
Extreme fear, mixed with hope, was behind recent manic gyrations in the world’s stock markets and has been the only reason why the buyers and sellers in Destin [...]
Archive for October, 2008
The State of our Market
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Market Update
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Coordinated Rate Cuts: Central banks around the world, including the Fed, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England, jointly announced a series of rate cuts. The fed funds rate was reduced 50 basis points to 1.5%. The Federal Reserve led a global coordinated emergency interest rate cut this morning that included the European [...]
Making the Best Offer to Get the Best Deal
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Last month I talked about the 10 steps to buying the right property and finding the right rental property. So now that you know how to find the right property, we need to talk about how to put in the best offer on the property in order to get the best deal.
Once you have chosen [...]
Economic woes from Wall Street to Main Street…wow, what a mess…
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Well the housing market decline and everything attached to it, has reared its ugly head now from Wall Street to Main Street. And everyone’s going to feel some pain. Home prices still searching for stable ground, 401K’s in the trenches, the job market in a spiral, etc. Seems like a never ending stream of dour [...]