Real Estate Blogs - Page 1

**Jobs, Foreclosures, The Stock Market And More Thoughts About Our Wacky World.** If we don't have jobs, it's awfully hard to pay a mortgage. More foreclosures may be on the way, according to the one person who I knew correctly called the financial meltdown.

Ilyce Glink Show Notes - November 1, 2009. How has the credit crisis and recession changed you and your spending habits? I want to hear from you. Free books and ebook deal. This week, our latest ebooks, on investing in real estate, will be released on ThinkGlink.com as will our podcasts from our How to Profit From Foreclosures event. Sign up for our free weekly newsletter to get the latest information, discounts and deals.

$8,000 First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit Being Used Illegally? You Betcha!

Ilyce Glink Show Notes - October 11, 2009 How to Profit from Foreclosures and Free EBOOKS, GDP, Budgeting, Saving Money, Unemployment Numbers. Great real estate advice and personal finance advice from the show!

Ilyce Glink Show notes - October 18, 2009 FDIC shuts down the 99th bank this year; FREE BOOKS and EBOOK DEAL; How to Profit from Foreclosures; Herman Cain show.

Foreclosure numbers are dreadful in Q3 2009. Hard to imagine that the foreclosure numbers could get any worse, but the Q3 2009 numbers stunk to high heaven. Two-thirds of the foreclosures in the U.S. are concentrated in the top 10 states, but that won't make homeowners feel any better. Foreclosures are job-driven, and while the unemployment number keeps rising, foreclosure numbers will continue to rise, according to RealtyTrac.

Faulty Smoke Detectors - How to Get The Smoke Detector to Stop Beeping: Why does it always happen at 1:45 a.m. on a night where you went to bed early and were trying to get a solid night's sleep. Smoke detectors need batteries every year, but they the unit itself goes bad every 3 to 5 years. Ours is 5 years, 10 months old.

Ilyce Glink Show Notes - October 4, 2009; Atlanta Flood update; September job cuts and unemployment rate rises; Moving to Montana; Section 8 real estate investing; how to find an estate attorney; HUD-certified housing counselors and Net Present Value (NPV) calculations and why people can't get loan modifications; FREE BOOKS and EBOOK DISCOUNT DEAL; Taylor Bean Whitaker

Sushi and six degrees of separation. Last night, I had dinner at a good all-you-can-eat sushi restaurant in Palatine, IL called Sushi Para. It turns out my dinner companions and I had a lot in common.