Category: Housing

Survival rule two: double tap: Part 2, Nut up or shut up

16 May, 2013 (09:00) | Foreclosure, Housing, Law, liens, Markets, Rental, US News | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]   By:David A. Smith   We are all orphans in Zombieland   I could tell she knew what I was feeling, we all are orphans in Zombieland – Columbus, from Zombieland   When dealing with a foreclosure-limbo property, imprecisely if visually presented by two stories in Reuters (March 28, 2013) [...]

Survival rule two: double tap: Part 1, Woulda, coulda, shoulda

15 May, 2013 (10:13) | Foreclosure, Housing, Law, liens, Markets, Rental, US News | No comments

By:David A. Smith     In those moments where you’re not quite sure if the undead are really dead, dead, don’t get all stingy with your bullets. I mean, one more clean shot to the head, and this lady could have avoided becoming a human Happy Meal. Woulda … coulda … shoulda. – Columbus, from [...]

Month in Review, February, 2013: Part 2, All finance is global

26 April, 2013 (09:00) | Apartments, Argentina, Bankruptcy, Boston, CalPERS, Chapter 40B, Eurozone, Housing, Inclusionary zoning, Innovations, Month in review, ratings agencies, Redevelopment, US News, Zoning | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] ­­ [Previous Months in Review available here: Jan 13, Dec 12, Nov 12, Oct 12, Sep 12, Aug 12, Jul 12, Jun 12, May 12]   By:David A. Smith   You deserve a break today   Turning from the local to the national, I reported, with no little righteous, on the [...]

Month in Review, February, 2013: Part 1, All real estate is local

25 April, 2013 (09:00) | Apartments, Argentina, Bankruptcy, Boston, CalPERS, Chapter 40B, Eurozone, Housing, Inclusionary zoning, Innovations, Month in review, ratings agencies, Redevelopment, US News, Zoning | No comments

[Previous Months in Review available here: Jan 13, Dec 12, Nov 12, Oct 12, Sep 12, Aug 12, Jul 12, Jun 12, May 12]   By:David A. Smith   It all depends on what you think ‘local’ is   We think of home as a place of safety where we keep the dangerous world out, [...]

Privileging the frank: Part 4, If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some

25 March, 2013 (09:00) | Adaptive reuse, advocacy, Economics, Historic, Housing, Infrastructure, Networks, Post Office, rehabilitation, Tax credits, Zoning | No comments

[Concluded from yesterday's Part 3 and the preceding Part 1 and Part 2.]   By:David A. Smith   If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some. – Benjamin Franklin, Postmaster General   Once it becomes inevitable that some post offices will be closed, as we have seen by critiquing [...]