MiniSky: Thoughts About Everything

I want to thank all of our long-term readers for their contribution to the discourse at the Tallahassee Real Estate Blog, especially during the past two days. Recently, we received a visit from “Greg” who has categorized me and this blog as typical of the real estate industry.

I beg to differ. After being compared to cheerleaders, cool-aid drinkers, and “average” REALTORS, and then being accused of being either “deceitful or just blinded,” I figured I would respond to each part of his comment, point by point. Rather than do it in the comments section where it would be missed by many of our readers, I felt that I would feature my response in the form of a new blog post. This way, we can pull many more of our readers into the discussion. Enjoy. Read the rest of this entry

I have a friend who has fallen on hard times, and he owns home that is (was) worth well over $1M. Like most Americans, he has the home pretty well leveraged, in fact owing much more on it that it is worth today. As you can suspect, his moral is low right now and he does not know what to do. He doesn’t want to lose his house, but he also knows his ability to make the payments on the home is coming to an end. Read the rest of this entry