Chris Johnson's (crj0540) Blog

I read an article today that UBS, the largest bank in Switzerland, agree to reveal the names of wealthy Americans whom the I.R.S. suspects of using offshore accounts at the bank to evade taxes.  UBS settled and has agreed to pay $780 Million for it participation in tax evading activities. One way...

It has been reported that Fed Cheif's boyhood home was Sold After Froreclosure.  Not that the mess we are in is Bernanke's fault, but it is ironic that his childhood home was sold in foreclosure.

The FDIC has already liquidated / closed 13 of its chartered bank so far in 2009.  Billionaire Wilbur Ross expects 1,000 FDIC Charter Banks to fail as the US economy continues to deteriorate.  This only leads me to believe there's huge opportunity in the housing and financial markets as long as y...

It has come to my attention through a very knowledgeable source M.G. (you know who you are) that the actions the US is taking through propping up banks and correcting credit issues may only cause further demise to our financial system.In 1989, Tokyo Japan hit an all time high real estate boom wit...

An examination of how the economic stimulus plan will affect Americans.___Taxes:The recovery package has tax breaks for families that send a child to college, purchase a new car, buy a first home or make the ones they own more energy efficient. Millions of workers can expect to see about $13 extr...

I've been working very hard on my website www.ChrisThePro.com and it's finally paying off.  Because my website Syndicates with other websites such as Trulia, Google Base, Yahoo Real Estate and Zillow I'm starting to get traffic to my site.  This morning I got a phone call from a buyer iching to m...

I thought it might be cool to post weekly the number of Residential Listings on the Daytona Multiple Listing Service (MLS) to track fluctuations in our inventory levels.  Tonight Daytona Beach MLS has 5,725 residential real estate listings.  I believe this is up from last week's numbers. In Janua...

I just started using Google adwords to drive traffic to my daytona beach real estate websites: www.ChrisThePro.com, www.VolusiaHomeHunter.com, www.OrmondHomeHunter.com, http://www.portorangehomehunter.com/, www.DaytonaHomeHunter.com and http://www.386foreclosures.com/.   I have heard in the indus...

I just started using Google analytics to monitor traffic data to my daytona beach real estate websites: www.ChrisThePro.com, www.VolusiaHomeHunter.com, www.OrmondHomeHunter.com, http://www.portorangehomehunter.com/, www.DaytonaHomeHunter.com and http://www.386foreclosures.com/. This is a very pow...

An REO (Real Estate Owned) is the term used in the banking world to describe a property that goes back to the mortgage company after an unsuccessful foreclosure auction. This is common because most of the properties up for sale at these auctions are worth less than the total amount owed to the ba...