March 2001 is recognized as the peak period prior to the beginning of the last recession. It is during these peaks (prior to an economic downturn) that we see significant increases in Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings. To the best of our knowledge, recessions have not been repealed and we are well past the average post-World […]

Predicting how bad the subprime market will get is an exercise in futility. There are many factors that affect the subprime market. They are all interrelated and yet they are all separate. Some examples are as follows: employment, the dollar, interest rates, terrorism, the stock market, legislation, oil and immigration. If you can predict the […]

Go to our Economic Valuation System (EVS). It lists over 100 important criteria (and scores them) that affect the potential return on investment (ROI) for an income property.

THE PRICE OF CRUDE OIL HITS RECORD LEVELS! What a sound bite. The media reporters, pundits and talking heads can’t say it often and loud enough. That’s called quantitative reporting. You get the information and that’s it. It’s dramatically presented with a negative bias, the reason being that drama sells and the media has a […]