Recently one of our sons, Chad, started classes at Columbia University. Although Chad was extremely excited about returning to school he was also very apprehensive. The reason for his anxiety was the fact he was a freshman at the age of 25.

You see Chad is a Former Marine and a Veteran of the Iraq War. He was but one of the thousands of Marines that were the first to go into Iraq during the invasion. Chad was fresh out of Salem High when he went to Boot Camp in 2002. He was still in high school when he enlisted [...] Continue Reading…

Morgan Carey (aka SEO Guy) who operates one of the largest real estate forums on the Internet admitted publicly Friday November 2nd on his real estate Blog that his Canadian based company did hack into the Pro Real Estate Network Forum also known as PREN.

According to administrators of PREN and Mr. Carey’s REW Forum Hacking Apology sites someone from REW used a password from a former Client that is now a Forum Moderator at PREN to hack into the system and delete threads that openly discussed many ethic violations and misconduct of Morgan Carey and Real Estate Webmasters. PREN [...] Continue Reading…

This week we have all watched in horror as thousands of homes have been lost in the recent California Wild Fires.
 
While the wild fires are almost an annual event now do in part to mismanagement of public and private lands as well as urban sprawl, this year was especially devastating with over 1 Million residents evacuating thus far.
 
Why does a Columbia Missouri real estate Agent pay so much attention to a natural disaster in California you ask? Simple economics for us in Mid-Missouri is the short answer. In my almost 20 years of involvement in the Missouri real estate [...] Continue Reading…

Since my last post “Lending Crisis May Soon Be Over” I have been inundated with phone calls and emails for an explanation of why I feel that the worst may be behind us in this recent housing market crisis.

We will undoubtedly feel the affect of the sub-prime fiasco through 2008. However, the figures of mortgages in default are minute when you look at the number of sub-prime loans and even smaller when you look at the total housing market. The figures simply do NOT justify the “Chicken Little” “the sky is falling” mentality of the liberal press.

The larger problem [...] Continue Reading…