The end of the housing boom might not be a bad thing.
Property rights -v- human rights – Rick Sincere takes a letter-to-the-editor writer to task
Tim Kaine on the upcoming Transportation Session – aside from the interesting interview with Governor Kaine – this is an example of the power of the blogosphere (we really need to work on a new name for this) – a conference call with bloggers!?
Option ARMs are the single most frightening loan product I have ever seen. Depending solely on a property’s appreciation combined with a lack of a commensurate rise in pay … Who is going to be left holding the bag on these things? Because clearly it’s not the consumer’s fault …
Clustering is mandatory? Thanks to Channel 29 (no longer available) for the heads-up (and you mis-typed the code reference on your site. It’s § 15.2-2286.1).
A mini-milestone: just over 15,000 visits and 100k hits to this blog last month – made less significant because tabbed browsing has made this stats somewhat irrelevant/obsolete (archived: 2008).
It’s wet outside (no longer available).
And finally, rates have dropped again (no longer available).
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