Jeff Tumbarello's (jefftumbarello) Blog

I sometimes feel like I am wasting time with some of the newer members of our chosen profession, but I remember my newer days and take a deep breath and help them as I was helped, here is whythe concept for the frustration is known as.....neko ni koban - literally "gold coins to a cat" is an idio...

As to interest in RE's rewards/punishments on the broader scale of humanity.... Most in this biz never quite understand there are only THREE types of folks on this planet: 1. Real Estate Investors (lotsa playahs, few players). These folks know almost NOTHING else outside the effective data and tr...

These guys are making Millions blogging! How much have we made????? LOL http://chitika.com/blog/?p=253Chitika has taken the first step to estimate the revenue in the blogosphere. In our Blog Dollars Study we have estimated that $500 million has been generated within the top 50k blogs in 2006.Jump...

Am I an investor or speculator?The path to wealth comes down to doing the right thing for the right reasons. The first question to ask yourself. Am I an investor or speculator? You should never be a speculator.There are two times not to speculate. When you can afford to and when you can't.Specula...

Real estate investing has been made very complicated. People have done this to sell information products. I am not knocking information products. They have helped me along the way. Never has any one product held the path to wealth. Really and truly, real estate investing is a game; some people pl...

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7c453090-7ff7-11dc-b075-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1 Quote: Poor quarterly results from banks across the US over the past two weeks suggest credit problems once confined to high-risk mortgage borrowers are spreading across the consumer landscape, posing new risks to ...

this is the aftermath of a mania, emotionally. We have went from euphoria, optimism and a positive view of risk. To socially and fiscally conservative as the backlash to the previous times. Everyone views anyone as a snake oil salesman. In this type of social mood. Distrust, fear and such. The fu...

The Goal: J Paul Getty - "If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars." The Method: Vince Lombardi - "The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."...

At first glance you would think they are doing something to help, they are dumping their bad paper on the GSA's http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=agNUe.4oR6mc&refer=worldwide Quote:Oct. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Countrywide Financial Corp., the biggest U.S. mortgage lender, will make it...

 I think emotion has more to do with Real Estate than supply and demand ever willin 2005 we were buying houses when we should not have beenin 2007 we should be buying houses and we are not why is that....SocioeconomicsI quote Socioeconomics typically analyze both the social impacts of economic ac...