housing

If you were going to design a bad investment, a mortgage on an owner-occupied home is very much what it would look like. There’s a high barrier to entry in…

If making money was easy, everyone would be rich. The fact that the majority of people in the United States are poor tells you something about investing. It also tells…

The view of housing most people carry around with them has its roots in the 1950s. In those days housing was frequently collocated with jobs and factories that no longer…

Owning a home is the American dream and, no matter how bad of a deal it becomes, people are still fixated on it. People who are wise with money every…

For many 2014 went into the books as the year of the rent increase. That wouldn’t happen again they said; rents couldn’t keep going up that fast they said. They…

The growth in America has been located primarily in the cities. With more millennials choosing not to drive cars, that has pushed rents and housing prices in America’s most popular…

The commodity in shortest supply in the world today is time. People are spending more time at work and more time sitting in traffic trying to get there and back.…

When people get nostalgic for the good old days, it’s always tempting to wonder if there’s a bit of historical cherry picking going on. Everyone picks the good things and…

Nothing points out the dysfunctional nature of our housing market quite like Tornado Alley. How many times have we seen entire communities of 3 bedroom, 2 bath homes made out…

Being in the real estate industry in 2005 made it easy to see the housing crash coming. What drove it home for me was how many times respectable agents would…