In the spirit of this 2007 post… let’s say you have a million bucks that you’re going to use to buy some real estate… Option 1: A 3,150 square foot “beautiful, well maintained Craftsman” sporting an “open floor plan with designer touches,” located on a 4,584 sq. ft. (0.1 acre) lot in the idyllic 47th…
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Renegotiating and Walking Back to Olive8
I posted this to the Twitter news wire yesterday, but since the original story merited a full blog post back in May (Walking Away at Olive8), I thought that Andy’s thoughtful follow-up would be worth posting as well. As it turns out, local internet entrepreneur Andy Liu didn’t end up walking away from Olive8 after…
Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2010-01-16
Mike Mastro settles with state Department of Financial Institutions re: securities fraud. http://is.gd/65jxr # Another Seattle bureaucrat heads to DC to "work on housing policy" on a national level. http://is.gd/65xzx # RT @KirstenGrind: Sterling Financial hit with class action lawsuit: http://bit.ly/8052bU # Post-mortem on Horizon Bank: http://is.gd/68Bo0 # RT @KirstenGrind: The battle rages on for…
Four More Washington Banks on the Unofficial Problem Bank List
Calculated Risk’s Unofficial Problem Bank List continues to increase in size, with the latest update including 576 banks across the country. This update added four more Washington State banks to the list: American Marine Bank in Bainbridge Island, Pierce Commercial Bank in Tacoma, The Bank of Washington in Lynnwood, and Viking Bank in Seattle. The…
Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2010-01-09
Great article in the NYT on the counter-productive nature of recent government interventions in housing. http://is.gd/5K0gx # The disappearing Boeing article I linked last week has reappeared: Boeing faces challenging economy, bitter rival in 2010 http://is.gd/5L8gp # Audio from my appearance this afternoon on KUOW has been added to the post. http://bit.ly/8tx6yW # via @TechFlash:…