A great loss to the real estate community

A great loss to the real estate community

We are saddened to report that Phyllis Rockower passed away on November 5, 2017 after a year-long battle with pancreatic cancer.  Most people did not know, because she was the kind of person who never complained and made no excuses.  She had a zest for life and a...
Yes you can buy happiness

Yes you can buy happiness

According to a recent study,you can make yourself happier by paying others to do work for you. Even if you don’t have a lot of money, if you are pressed for time and it is stressing you out, ding this actually works. In a study conducted by Harvard Business...
Good advice

Good advice

Written by Regina Brett, 90 years old, former columnist for newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. “To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most requested column I’ve ever written. My odometer rolled over to 90 in August,...
Banks are not the only ones making loans

Banks are not the only ones making loans

Getting a Loan is Easier Thanks to Non-Bank Lenders Mortgage by nonbanks have not only surged past those coming from regulated banks. (like quicken loans) Where in 2013 banks originated 70 percent of new mortgages, this year nonbanks originated 60 percent. This may...
Harvey’s impact on housing

Harvey’s impact on housing

According to Core Logic, 70% of the houses in Texas are not covered by any insurance. Most people there do not have flood insurance. One must expect, with dollar losses at the level CoreLogic predicts, there will be a substantial impact on the housing and housing...