Shouldn't be possible, since all of that is public record. Square footage (finished and unfinished space), number of bedrooms, number of bathrooms, sale date, sale prices are all available from public tax records (although sometime incorrect info pops up).
I do wonder if much of this "pre-shadow inventory" ever becomes bank owned. The banks, or the government, or whoever, are really doing a good job keeping kicking it down the road. I would have thought it would start to trickle out a little by now.
Oh, and good job to our webmaster for...
Great blog post:
<a href="http://www.foreclosuretruth.com/blog/sean/shadow-inventory-confusion-reigns">Shadow Inventory-Confusion Reigns</a>
<em>There is currently no shadow inventory of bank-owned (REO) properties. What?s more, a surge in REO properties is not likely anytime soon...
Good article. Remodeling almost never increases the value of a property by as much as the cost of the remodel-you almost always lose money. Only remodel if you are living there yourself and want to enjoy the updated whatever. Now, fixing things, staging, cleaning, that's different.
Well, top rate universities don't come for free. Californians don't want higher taxes to pay for them. Texas has the advantage of lots of oil, so they can keep their taxes on other things low. California can't do that.
You guys do know that California is currently 50th out of the 50 states in per pupil spending at the K-12 level? There are no extravagant pensions there; such are included in that figure.
So, job training is not something worth spending the stimulus funds on. I'll keep that in mind.
Just because you think that particular job is beneath you, doesn't mean that somebody else doesn't make a good living cutting and styling hair.
This thread is a good companion to today's blog post. Predicting anything, whether interest rates or housing prices or anything else, is really hard, and people usually want to forget when their predictions didn't come true.
The solution to this is to provide excess parking in the first place. Of course, the developers don't want to do that, because it takes up space and they want to cram as many units in as small a space as possible.