At various points in the last few years it has been suggested to me that I should write a book. A book about real estate in general or the housing bubble specifically, from my unique perspective as an engineer turned real estate analyst. As one of my coworkers recently put it: “Kendra Todd wrote a…
Tag: books
Read the Tale of WaMu: “The Lost Bank”
Longtime readers or followers of Seattle real estate and/or local business may remember Kirsten Grind, a local reporter with the Puget Sound Business Journal who reported extensively on the latter-day problems and eventual failure of Washington Mutual. Before leaving Seattle for New York to work for the Wall Street Journal, Kirsten put over a year…
Book Recommendations Open Thread
A few months back, just for laughs, I picked up a used copy of David Lereah’s 2005 book Are You Missing the Real Estate Boom Why Home Values and Other Real Estate Investments Will Climb Through the End of the Decade–and How to Profit From Them. So far it has definitely not disappointed. Comedy gold…
Homebuying Tips and Traps from 1996
I was looking through the real estate section Half Price Books recently and stumbled upon an interesting book: Tips and Traps When Buying A Home, by Robert Irwin. The edition of this book I was thumbing through was published in 1996, and was just chock full of all kinds of helpful advice, such as this:…