My wife, while visiting her sister, had a conversation about a house down the street from the sister that had been listed for sale for many, many months in Orange County, CA.  List price started very close to $800,000, then drifted down to it’s last FSBO price of $649,000.
That’s all well and good, but when [...]

Probably the biggest reason most people choose to look at foreclosed homes is the lower prices often found for those homes.  There isn’t any specific price reduction attached to a home because it’s foreclosed, the lower price will often be a reflection of needed maintanence (which might be as little as paint and carpet), an [...]

We live in a semi-rural area where our mailbox is at the end of the street in a big rack along with everyone else’s mailbox.  It takes a key to open your individual mailbox.
So what happens when the mailbox key disappears?
Panic. Anger. Casting blame upon everyone who might possibly have come into contact with that [...]

Fox News has a little blurb about the Upper Midwest and shelters being over-run with abandoned animals.  I, personally, don’t quite understand how someone could leave a pet to make it on their own, or not.
It is a very true phenomenon though, I used to run across it with some regularity when I was looking [...]