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Weekend Open Discussion

This is the time and place to post observations about your local areas, comments on news stories or the New Jersey housing market, open house reports, etc. If you have any questions you wanted to ask earlier in the week … Continue reading

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Looking for a new career?

From the Record: Real estate as a 2nd career Charlie Chichizola remembers the moment when he decided to switch careers. He was a cable TV technician in the 1980s, and found himself “hanging off a pole in the dead of … Continue reading

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Weekend Open Discussion

This is the time and place to post observations about your local areas, comments on news stories or the New Jersey housing market, open house reports, etc. If you have any questions you wanted to ask earlier in the week … Continue reading

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Weekend Open Discussion

This is the time and place to post observations about your local areas, comments on news stories or the New Jersey housing market, open house reports, etc. If you have any questions you wanted to ask earlier in the week … Continue reading

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Weekend Open Discussion

This is the time and place to post observations about your local areas, comments on news stories or the New Jersey housing market, open house reports, etc. If you have any questions you wanted to ask earlier in the week … Continue reading

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Weekend Open Discussion

This is the time and place to post observations about your local areas, comments on news stories or the New Jersey housing market, open house reports, etc. If you have any questions you wanted to ask earlier in the week … Continue reading

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Weekend Open Discussion

This is the time and place to post observations about your local areas, comments on news stories or the New Jersey housing market, open house reports, etc. If you have any questions you wanted to ask earlier in the week … Continue reading

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“A complete and thorough rip-off of taxpayers.”

From the Home News Tribune: End rental deals for Somerset County workers Somerset County rentals are among the most expensive in the region — unless, that is, the occupant is employed by the county’s Park Commission. According to a consultant’s … Continue reading

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The end of easy money?

From Bloomberg: Goldman, JPMorgan Stuck With Debt They Can’t Sell to Investors Goldman Sachs Group Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and the rest of Wall Street are stuck with at least $11 billion of loans and bonds they can’t readily … Continue reading

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Weekend Open Discussion

This is the time and place to post observations about your local areas, comments on news stories or the New Jersey housing market, open house reports, etc. If you have any questions you wanted to ask earlier in the week … Continue reading

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Ownership out of reach

From the Philly Inquirer: Squeezed out of a house For just about all but people in the top income brackets, there is a crisis of housing affordability in the United States, observers say. Middle-income American service workers, especially those earning … Continue reading

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Real Estate Pornography

Came across an interesting piece out of Sydney. The piece is mainly about the Australian real estate market, but I thought the lead in was an interesting question and could make for an interesting discussion. Are real estate ads ‘house’ … Continue reading

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Weekend Open Discussion

This is the time and place to post observations about your local areas, comments on news stories or the New Jersey housing market, open house reports, etc. If you have any questions you wanted to ask earlier in the week … Continue reading

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“It’s absolutely unfair.”

From the Philly Inquirer: Tax hike enrages Haddon Heights Imagine a town where almost all of the homes have “for sale” signs in their front yards, where the mayor and Borough Council are being recalled, and where petitions from angry … Continue reading

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Weekend Open Discussion

This is the time and place to post observations about your local areas, comments on news stories or the New Jersey housing market, open house reports, etc. If you have any questions you wanted to ask earlier in the week … Continue reading

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