Paul's Blog

I see a lot of BLOG posts about the sub prime market, ARM's and greed being the cause of some of the housing woes and I agree with some parts and disagree with a larger portion of those claims. The advent of the bankruptcy law change 2 years ago has forced the homeowner to make a completely diffe...

                                 INDEPENDENCE DAY NOW MORE COMMONLY CALLED  THE FOURTH OF JULYDid you know that 150 million hot gogs will be consumed on this day?Did you know that 2.5 times more firworks will be used than are used on New Years Eve?Did you know that over 68 million people will hav...

In an effort of cooperation the Tennessee Valley Authority and the University of Tennessee have just released their newest joint venture project. Thousands of man hours and research dollars went into making theis state of the art battery back up system with a surge supression system. UT hopes to ...

With our state lottery proceeds Tennessee's colleges and universities have been able to advance the quality of their facilities and research labratories. Here is a quick sneak peek at UT's new computer labratory in Knoxville.                                             Real State of the Art Stuff...

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I have never before thrown a company under the proverbial bus before on a BLOG or forum but due to the fact this company continues to market themselves to real estate agents then it is time to sound the alarm. I signed up for this company to host an ancillary web site in January 2007 and the stat...

Well now that you have worked your way through to an Asset manager or Loss Mitigation Manager at the Lender or Loan Servicer your paperwork has also now begun to increase greatly. Be certain that the Lender's representative has all of the documents you have sent them, and visa versa because the d...

I see and respond to posts from people who ask if these lead generation companies are worth while and worth the expense. Well for my fellow Active Rain readers in a word no! I have for over a decade been in the insurance and real estate business and can tell you that in today's Internet market yo...

News we can use in the real estate and mortgage business. After last week's blood bath in the Bond Market the fallout was felt by sharply rising interest rates. The short term forcast is for the volitility of last weeks market to subside and this week prices and yields to remain level. The effect...

Exponentially (adverb) Websters definition: characterized by or being an extremely rapid increase.I recently answered another BLOGGERS question on referrals and realized that within that answer was how I had grown my own real estate business. Referrals are the best and most reliable way to grow y...