Consider suggesting cross-collateralization to clients looking to expand their portfolios. via A Collateral Move – Scotsman Guide.
Why does everyone hate LA? (Los Angeles: appointed, how much, movies) – City-Data Forum
Report Shows That Angelenos All Want to Flee For Riverside

Trulia released its Metro Movers Report today, showing which metro areas people are looking to move between and the number one search in all of the US is Angelenos looking for property in Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario. Gasp! Pearl clutch! via Report Shows That Angelenos All Want to Flee For Riverside – Facts & Figures – Curbed [...]
Press This 404 errors caused by move to Hostgator
No disrespect to HostGator – I love them! But after moving my hosting to HostGator my “Press This” bookmarklet JavaScript no longer worked. Here is the very easy fix. The problem: Some hosts have lame mod_security rules that block unencoded urls, making Press This unusable. Source: http://forums.hostgator.com/apache-upgrade-broke-feature-wordpress-t40603.html The fix: Replace: u=’+e(l.href)+’ With: u=’+e(l.href.replace(/\//g,’\\/’))+’ Source: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/press-this-results-in-404?replies=22#post-1008326 #16940 (Prevent [...]
Housing and the economy: Rising from the ruins

The economic landscape is unquestionably littered with the wreckage of the crash. Home prices languish near post-bubble lows, over 30% below peak. The plunge in prices has left nearly a quarter of all mortgage borrowers owing more than the value of their homes; nearly 10m are seriously delinquent on their loans or in [...]
How To Tell If Your Rent Is Going Up
The nation is currently seeing some of the highest occupancy rates since 2002, according to the National Renters Association. Fewer available tenements coupled with swarms of tenants flocking to fill them up means the ball is back in the landlord’s court and they’re shooting for the three-pointer. Some regions of the U.S. have already seen [...]
Kern County bucks the trend for CA property values
Do You Realize That The Government Is Still Paying Banks Not To Lend…?

The Federal Reserve is quietly continuing with one of the many outrageous bank-bailout programs it initiated during the financial crisis–the one in which it pays big banks interest on their “excess reserves.” What are “excess reserves”? Money that the banks have but aren’t lending out–money that banks are just keeping on deposit at the Fed. [...]
Activist Post: What QE3 Will Look Like
FHA Refinance of Borrowers in Negative Equity Positions
FHA Refinance of Borrowers in Negative Equity Positions On March 26, 2010, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) announced enhancements to the existing Making Home Affordable Program (MHA) and Federal Housing Administration (FHA) refinance program that will give a greater number of responsible borrowers an opportunity [...]

