Monthly Archives: January 2012

Pending Home Sales And The Lessons of Rocky And Bullwinkle

The Pending home sales for December came out today and rosy is almost all you can say about them – not that you’ll find that in the headlines which read, “Pending Home Sales Down For December”, none the less, the … Continue reading

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How Will We Be Remembered?

So what’s a Realtor writing about ho,w we should be remembered?  Hey, everyone’s got an opinion right?  But seriously, I was watching ESPN tonight as players and people from State College were remembering Joe Paterno.  To put this in some … Continue reading

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Change Is Gonna Come

This week we celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King and with his memory as a backdrop I’m reminded of what in 1963 recording artist Sam Cooke wrote in response to the rising tide of a nation tired of racial inequality, “It’s … Continue reading

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Ben Bernake Hits For The Cycle!

A baseball term?  Bernanke in a baseball uniform?  Not exactly the image most of us have of our Federal Reserve Chairman.  A few months ago, I criticized Chairman Ben Bernanke for announcing that rates would stay low to 2013.  I … Continue reading

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