if you’re going to be a successful realtor in this market, you gotta be able to deal with the hustlers, slimeballs, and grifters that abound.
Here’s another – a tenant who paid 1.5 months rent, has stayed for six, filed a burglary report against the homeowner/landlord and then got a restraining order against him to ice his free-rent program.
via bubbleinfo.com
When you cant sell a home that youve priced at $1, whats your next step?Cut the price to 50 cents?Try paying someone to take the house for a buck?St. Paul officials have learned some disappointing — but not surprising — lessons four months into a project to sell a cluster of city-owned homes at prices ranging from $50,000 all the way down to a buck.
via TwinCities.com.
In tests in real apartments, the homemade setup detected bed bugs as well, or better, than did two brands of professional exterminating equipment, Tsai said December 16 at the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America.
The parts, including the dry ice, cost $15 and don’t require any special skills for assembly. “Everyone can do it,” she said.
via Science News.
[This is becoming a big problem for landlords across the nation]
A handful of judges have begun to come to homeowners’ rescue. Now these judges aren’t replacing their robes with a sheriff’s badge and chasing the evil lenders out of town. But they are acting aggressively toward lenders in a handful of cases that the WSJ’s Amir Efrati details in today’s Law Journal.
via WSJ.
The government has handed its ATM card to beleaguered mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
via Huffington Post.
