Steadfast Finances

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If there is anything this recession has proven to Americans, it is that unemployment can happen to anyone. The economic turmoil has been particularly brutal for those on unemployment. According to economic reports, the average duration for unemployment has ballooned to over nine months in the last few years. Just because your paychecks have stopped, doesn’t mean that your mortgage payments go into hibernation.

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If you are shopping for a new home, you should take the time to learn about the seven most common types of houses.
Shopping for houses means looking through countless of listings whether on the internet, in the classifieds, or in MLM listings. Oftentimes these listings don’t come with pictures, so you’re left to imagine what the house looks like through the description alone.

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  More troubling data on real estate and foreclosures as a whole from the NYT: In New York State, it would take lenders 62 years at their current pace, the longest time frame in the nation, to repossess the 213,000 houses now in severe default or foreclosure, according to calculations by LPS Applied Analytics, a [...]

 Infographics & Chartology,Real Estate         7 comments

As if we had any real doubt that U.S. real estate was FUBAR, but the March Case Shiller Index numbers did us a favor and confirmed what the smart money already knew. Too bad the Case Shiller model doesn’t take condos, bank owned real estate, short term prices, etc. Wouldn’t want to show chartology for [...]

 Infographics & Chartology,Real Estate         3 comments

Legendary chartporn of this quality would almost make me ill had I not been so prepared for the smell of Castor Oil. From the article: This chart is really astounding. It shows the average number of days that homeowners with defaulted loans (NOD) have not made a mortgage payment. For New York, one of the [...]

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Image via Chart of the Day A 20 second scan of the headlines for the real estate tab on this blog will show you I’ve been bearish on U.S. real estate since this blog began several years ago, but I’m thinking it might be time to go from ultra bearish to neutral on select markets based [...]

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A few of us knew the double dip in real estate was a no brainer, but what I didn’t expect, and for some inexplicable reason no one from the financial establishments is facing criminal charges for, is the outright fraud in an attempt to cover up (e.g. paper over) their incompetence. If you or I [...]

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It’s ironic that regardless of all the hype around “green shoots” and hopium filled speeches to inspire investor confidence that real estate — when left to a solely organic recovery without any sort of government induced steroid-like stimulus program — will likely take years, if not decades, to get to 2006 real estate bubble prices. [...]

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Image Credit: Chart of the Day Being a chartporn aficionado, it’s hard to not to look at such a chart and wonder if precious metals and real estate markets from the late 1970s/early 1980s will do an encore. Real estate still has a long way to fall, in my opinion as well as many others [...]

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Well said by Michael Lewis on Fareed Zakaria’s GPS (similar to a car tracker)… If you had told me in early 2009 that all these big Wall Street firms would be back even bigger and paying big bonuses and essentially socializing their losses but their gains privatized and that the American people put up with [...]

 Green Living,Real Estate         4 comments

What could potentially be the most forward thinking, buy & hold real estate investment of the 21st century: sell existing waterfront property (especially low sea level property). buy real estate several miles inland. Why? As you’ll see in the video: Environmental scientists expect sea levels to rise 3 feet more in the next 80 to [...]

 Consumer Education,Real Estate         4 comments

As if we needed more reason question the National Association of Realtor’s financial advice, who profited greatly from the credit bubble and resulting real estate bubble, now we learn they may have been fudging the numbers using the wrong economic model once the housing crash began in 2007. The housing crash may have been more [...]