Are you currently a member of the National Association of Realtors?  If you are, then you are going to be getting some HUGE gifts!  NAR is making a ton of publications completely FREE!  They are also making a ton of classes and products HUGELY DISCOUNTED.  They are also making some new classes for FREE as well. 

If you are currently practicing as a real estate agent you need to look through some of the following free stuff:

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So I have not written anything recently, because in all honesty not much has changed.  The situation has not gotten much better.  Until now, Suze Orman is allowing individuals to download her book for FREE until Thursday, January 15th.

This book is not your typical ebook!  It really has very good information on your FICO Score, retirement investing, savings, spending sheets, real estate, paying for college, insurance and much more!  This is the book you need to read, understand, and use to really keep it together over the next year! (more…)

I was excited to see 4 schools from the DC region in the top 100!  Thomas Jefferson High school was ranked #1 across all high school in the United States!  That is an amazing accomplishment!  The following were the other 3 schools from the region were placed: (more…)

Many of you must of heard of the restructuring guidelines that came out of FHFA (which regulates Fannie mae and Freddie Mac).  To get the full details of the restructing guidelines go here

Somethings to look at are the following:

Basically under these restructuring guidelines individual homeoweners who are not able to pay their mortgage payments would be able to refinance and get lower payments if they have the following situation: (more…)

This new regional report has come out from the Greater Washington initiative and the news is VERY POSITIVE!  I have placed the graphs from their analysis on the left hand side and below.  It shows what we all have known about the D.C. metro area.

First, the D.C. region has the lowest unemployment rate of all the major job markets in the United States.

Second, the government and the professional & business services hold about 50% of the jobs in the area.

Third, the DC region in the last 10 years has had one of the largest increases in job growth across the United States.

Fourth, the one area - Professional and business service jobs, which accounts for close to 25% of the jobs in the region, is also area that has had the most amount of growth compared to all the major cities in the U.S. (more…)