I recorded this webinar on March 11, 2009. The AUDIO IS HERE and will open in a new window.  Listen along and click through the links as I discuss them: The zero-down loan limits for California counties How a purchase price, above the VA loan limit, might not require a 20-30% down payment VA downpa...

I recorded this webinar on March 11, 2009. The AUDIO IS HERE and will open in a new window.  Listen along and click through the links as I discuss them: The zero-down loan limits for California counties How a purchase price, above the VA loan limit, might not require a 20-30% down payment
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With the 'ID the neighborhoods project' going on at the LAT - how can a man be killed in Downtown in one sentence - and then also killed in Lincoln Heights in the next sentence? And yes, that area is NEAR Downtown - but it is - as the story says - in Lincoln Heights. Police are searching for killer ...

In the above linked story, a family accuses the Army of covering up their daughter's murder by saying it was a suicide, and they present some compelling evidence. The article also suggests there might be a pattern of covering up such murders. Then, further into the article, the Army makes its case a...

I tried so hard to keep an open mind about this Obama guy.  The optimism of our people on Inauguration Day was infectious.  The snappy patter of the “three words” video had my toes tapping and heart filled with optimism.  Alas, the honeymoon is over.  I now stand firm in my belief th...

Remember those impetuous, ne’er do well subprime borrowers and those greedy subprime lenders?  Writing about them is sooo… 2007 but I’m happy to report that both greed and reckless abandon are alive and well today…. …at Bank of America. Remember Ken Lewis?  He’s...

Now that the state of California is tens of billions of dollar in debt - and the situation for the next two years looks even... worse.... the state Assembly has finally decided to investigate if - just possibly - there might be some fraud and waste in all the rapidly expanding entitlement programs. ...

How is Connecticut going to spend all that money (about $3 billion) from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009? Governor Rell isn't going to get a big check with lots of zeros. Much of the money is dedicated to specific programs (roads and bridges and clean water projects, for...

Poseidon, look at me: sometimes the words are hard to make out, but if you give it a good listen, I'm quite sure you'll get a hearty chuckle. Or even if you don't, if you remember the junk we used to watch on MTV in the mid-late '90s when all the "rap moguls" thought they were hard because they owne...

Bank of America is getting slaughtered by short sellers.  The stock has plummeted to under 10% of its March, 2008 value.  Of course, a few things happened on the way to the slaughterhouse: The bought Countrywide, America’s largest mortgage originator. They bought Merrill Lynch, America’...