"Landlords are facing the worst market they've seen in three decades." http://is.gd/5lfe2 # Jay Leno made the same "drinking your way out of alcoholism" analogy that we posted on Wed. http://is.gd/5lfyO # You've been BoingBoing'ed, @KirstenGrind http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/12/fdic-sends-a-big-f-u.html # RT @mattgoyer: New blog post: Olive 8 Gets Loan Renewed http://bit.ly/5xVGBK # RT @KirstenGrind: New internal JPMorgan…
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It’s a Great Time to Rent
Here’s another new site to add to your list of where to search for rentals in Seattle: Zillow. Zillow announced yesterday that they have added rental listings to their site. Since this is a brand new feature, and they apparently have not made any partnership deals to pre-seed it with data, there aren’t currently any…
Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2009-12-12
Seattle seems to stick out a bit from its West Coast neighbors in my latest stats post over @redfinseattle http://bit.ly/5He9Zu # Is Everett on its way to becoming the next Flint, MI? http://is.gd/5g62p # 30-day deadline for Bellingham-based Horizon Bank to raise capital or be shut down. http://is.gd/5h55G # Please note the addendum to today's…
An Unprecedented Level of Openness in Government
Apparently, this is what “an unprecedented level of openness in Government” looks like: Via Kirsten Grind at the Puget Sound Business Journal. The Puget Sound Business Journal for months has asked the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), the federal agency that regulated Washington Mutual, to release internal communications between WaMu’s regulators. … On Wednesday, an…
Why was WaMu really closed, and what are the FDIC & OTS hiding?
On Friday the Puget Sound Business Journal posted another great piece by Kirsten Grind on all the shady dealings that went on behind the scenes in the WaMu shutdown ordeal. The piece, titled The Washington Mutual decision is currently available on their site only to subscribers, but over on Portfolio.com (one of their sister sites)…