This is your open thread for Friday, February 16, 2007. Please post random links and off-topic discussions here.
Month: February 2007
Let’s talk Financing: Gross Income outdated?
Bonus Picture Day (billboard next to Everett Events Center): Looks like the banking industry is aware of the debt picture. Gross Income outdated? For years the lending industry has utilized gross income as the yardstick by which consumers are qualified to obtain mortgages. Let’s say the median priced home in King County is $465,000. What…
02.15.2007 – Thursday Open Thread
This is your open thread for Thursday, February 15, 2007. Please post random links and off-topic discussions here.
Kleenex, Q-Tip, Band-Aid… Realtor
Public Service Announcement for people employed the real estate field: Whether you like it or not, the general public uses the term “Realtor” in much the same way that we use the terms Kleenex, Q-Tip, Band-Aid, Jell-O, Styrofoam, and many others. Despite the fact that “Realtor” is a registered trademark that refers to a specific…
Ask Seattle Bubble: Just Bought A Condo
Here’s a question I recently received from a reader that I will call “Jack”: I’m 26. From L.A., recently moved here. Saved for a year, and moved with about 30k, (made 110k in ’06) I was on disability for a year before after I almost died in an accident, so my previous savings were depleted….