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I read the San Jose Mercury News article today titled "Bay Area homes' price down 1.4% from a year ago" and pictured yet another heated discussion between the two propaganda crowds.

You know, the ones who want to make money and blindly say the sky isn't falling and the others who always carry around steel-reinforced umbrellas, not for protecting others, but to whack other people over the head with after they say, "I told you so." 

Clearly there's some middle ground.

Data is open to interpretation, and just like you can turn Mary Poppins into a horror movie or The Ring into a love story, with a little music and some sound effects, you can move from lies, to damn lies, to statistics in just the same amount of time.  So the key is to be able to think for yourself and make decisions that are based on your own requirements and risk tolerance.

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Dec.15.2006 [ Filed under: Bay Area Real Estate, Home Buyers, Home Owners ] Comment Here »

The good folks at The Digerati Life raise an interesting, realistic scenario about a family that is upgrading to a new house but the sale for the old one fell through.  The question raised is: what would you do now?

Unfortunately, a great way of dealing with Catch-22 situations is to avoid them completely.  It's a matter of clearly communicating what you need in your negotiations.  Here are some ideas to help prevent this situation or help bail water if you're in it already.

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Dec.13.2006 [ Filed under: Bay Area Real Estate, Home Buyers, Home Owners ] Comment Here »