chrisgriffith on October 28th, 2009

Foreclosure by Choice When did the mentality about walking away from the obligation of a home change? Maybe the change started when the possibility of owning a home was made so easy that anyone with a pulse and a blue ink pen could qualify for a loan. Home ownership was no longer a challenge for [...]

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chrisgriffith on August 16th, 2009

  Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy If you can’t see the video above, CLICK HERE. This is a little ditty about how the real estate market really is.  Many buyers of real estate worry that because the market is moving so swiftly they won’t get a great deal.  [...]

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chrisgriffith on December 10th, 2008

Banks Didn’t Turn Their Back on Homeowners They Turned Their Back on Our Nation Billions and trillions of dollars of bail out money is what they have all got their hands out for. That’s not even counting the auto industry. Since I’m not expert about the auto industry I won’t be touching that subject with [...]

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chrisgriffith on November 11th, 2008

First Time Home Buyers Circle Your Wagons As you know, AmeriDream and other Down Payment Assistance (DPA) programs were eliminated October 1, 2008 due to the passage of H.R. 3221. You are probably asking yourself how Congress could eliminate these programs that are so critical to the stabilization of home prices and our economy. We [...]

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chrisgriffith on August 18th, 2008

Banks Still Can’t Sell Real Estate There probably isn’t any way to fully illustrate the pain and suffering that is involved with a transaction that involves a bank or lending institution. I’m not sure that I can even come up with a comparable or an analogy to demonstrate how unorganized, inefficient and ridiculous the procedure [...]

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chrisgriffith on May 11th, 2008

No matter how flat a pancake is it still has two sides Sometimes people are just a victim of circumstance, they get sick, they get hurt, they lose their job, you name it. Sometimes people just lose their home and it wasn’t their greed or narcissism that caused it. Hey, I don’t agree 100% with [...]

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