House Poor: Hope, Faith and Equity
Hope, Faith and Equity By Homer Guthrie, Expert Homeowner Have you ever seen someone tease a dog? It doesn’t take long to turn a perfectly friendly pooch into a nasty, mean mongrel. That’s exactly what...
View ArticleHouse Poor: What’s the Matter with Kids Today?
House Poor What’s the Matter with Kids Today? By Homer Guthrie Expert Homeowner Every Friday morning my real estate team-Bea Meriwether, real estate agent and Earnest S. Crowe, mortgage guy-meets for...
View ArticleHouse Poor: The Perils of Progress
House Poor The Perils of Progress By Homer Guthrie, Expert Homeowner My real estate agent, Bea Meriwether, is one of those real estate people who thrived in the days when the business was all about...
View ArticleHouse Poor: Big Losers and Short Sales
House Poor Big Losers and Short Sales By Homer Guthrie, Expert Homeowner In Mirage Mills, we’ve seen it all when it comes to the housing mess. Entire neighborhoods are so run down you would think Home...
View ArticleHouse Poor: My MID-Life Crisis
My MID-life Crisis By Homer Guthrie Expert Homeowner My wife and I had just settled down in front of the TV the other night when the saddest advertisement came on. A grandpa was sitting with his...
View ArticleHouse Poor: Lights, Camera, Fiction
Lights, Camera, Fiction By Homer Guthrie Expert Homeowner Our son Freddy is one of those young people for whom the bumper sticker “Hire a Teenager While They Still Know Everything” was created. Perhaps...
View ArticleHouse Poor: A New Lease on Life
There are many advantages to living in a neighborhood known nationwide as the Chernobyl of American real estate. Movie directors like our barren, graffiti-decorated streets for post-Apocalypse scenes...
View ArticleHouse Poor: The Landlord’s Prayer
House Poor The Landlord’s Prayer By Homer Guthrie, Expert Homeowner Believe me, the last thing in life I ever wanted to be was a landlord. The thought of it reminds me of the old silent movies tying...
View ArticleHouse Poor: Just Another Learning Experience
House Poor: Just Another Learning Experience By Homer Guthrie Expert Homeowner Have you ever had that free-falling feeling, like someone has blindfolded you, pushed you out of an airplane door at 5,000...
View ArticleSales Freefall Continued in February
Home sales took another deep dive in February, falling 7.1 percent below the 4.95 million-unit level in February 2013 to the lowest level of sales in any month since July 2012, when annualized sales...
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