While we worry about declining real estate prices, there are villages in Africa worried about their next meal.
One of the things I love about Lake Grove Presbyterian Church is the amount of time, talent and giving that goes to worldwide mission outreach programs. One of those is a now ten year partnership, through Worldvision, with a federation of sixteen Wolof villages in Senegal. Not mission in the sense of “here, let me give […]
Bubble Bloggers, Naysayer and Animal Rights Nuts
A comment on this post, from the perfectly named Naysayer:
I love how you real estate people and the homedebtors try to blackmail the rest of us with your ominous threats about how the return to sane housing prices will be bad for all of us. Bullpucky.
Let it crash. Let it crash HARD. The dotcom bubble burst […]
Standing athwart history, part 2.
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The business of real estate is changing, not because of a tough market but in spite of it. [When homes aren’t selling, sellers understandably gravitate toward high-volume high-profile listing agents, reinforcing the status quo.] It’s a process, but the internet is turning everything on its head: Buyers are savvy enough to do their own searches, […]
“It stands athwart history, yelling Stop…”
I started this morning with ideas germinating on real estate weblogs, web 2.0 and (once again) the state of real estate. The business is changing because how people approach buying and selling homes is changing, and web 2.0, still embryonic, is going to be a big part of it. We just don’t yet know how.
But […]
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
My girls are on their way down from Seattle; to spend Christmas day with them is my idea of perfection. Christmas is about family.
But families, extended families, come in different configurations. This is the family with whom I’ve spent the last nine Christmas Eves, the Sanctuary Choir of Lake Grove Presbyterian Church. Aged from the twenties […]
