First Step What should be your first step if you are contemplating buying real estate whether for the first time or again? The words are GET APPROVED. Your Friendly Loan Broker You get approved by going to your friendly Loan Broker. I recommend someone who is DRE or DBO licensed, not the big bank people. […]
Food Samples In a new mystery-attorney type book I’m reading, the lead character and her friend have no money and are hungry, so they say, “Let’s go to the Costco Buffet.” Many of you know what she means. I am a Costco person, and believe that the best time to go for the samples they […]
Should I Get A Brokers’ License? Why should I get a Brokers’ license, when I am doing okay with my Salesperson license? My answer: “You will make more money.” In addition, you can work for two companies such as residential sales and lending or commercial sales and mortgage lending.
Grandma and Grandpa Lunch – With 4 of our Woodland Hills grandchildren at Toscanova at Calabasas Commons! Enough said.
URLA Form Big changes are coming to the URLA. In fact, it is a whole new form that replaces the five page form from 2009. Whenever a Federal Agency, in this case Fannie and Freddie, make a new form does the number of pages increase or decrease? Will the new form have three, five, eight, […]
Personal Finance Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Adviser has some recommendations in their January issue. I have been a believer in them since the 60’s. You have to believe in someone or something. Tax return information: three years. I happen to believe that you keep the actual return for your lifetime. Get to go back and amuse […]
“Secret of Super Agers” There was a small article in a Newsletter I receive about the “Secret of Super Agers”. So I decided to check a few websites and get different opinions. For years I have been a believer that being happily married is a big plus, have a pet, perhaps a dog, for that […]
Only in America You can trot around the bases, state you do not hustle all the time, and blow bubble gum bubbles when you run to first base in a World Series and someone will pay you $30M for 10 years. Only in America. Harper will get around $40M a year, right. And Koufax and […]
Real Estate Renewals in Exotic Places Years ago in another universe our company presented Real Estate Renewals in exotic places. Some of my favorite trips involved Acapulco, Cabo, Hawaii, Caribbean, New Hampshire, and other spots. Take a trip and get renewed. And a couple of informative meetings, thrown in for good measure. Loved those trips, […]
Social Security Of course, many people would say, that does not surprise us. But this error concerns Social Security payments. Compounded or Not Compounded An author in the LA Times, Ms. Weston, had made a statement that the Social Security payment goes up 8% a year for the years between 66 and 70. She said […]
