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7 On Your Side: Money for Home Buyers

November 25, 2008

Last Edited: Monday, 24 Nov 2008, 10:28 PM CST
Created: Monday, 24 Nov 2008, 10:28 PM CST
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AUSTIN — The ups and downs of today’s economy are making it difficult for some people to purchase a home, but some little-known and seldom-used tricks may help you get the house deal of [...]

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Friday’s Fearless Predictions

November 7, 2008

Leave it to Texas to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory last week. I had a good friend describe this one as “vying for the biggest swing in emotion and the most painful experience of my sports-watching life.” I would have to agree with that assessment. Painful to watch. Painful [...]

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Economic Weakness Improves Rates or does it?

November 7, 2008

With few surprises in the election results, investors focused on the prospects for the economy. The outlook for economic growth moved progressively lower during the week, and Friday’s weak Employment data reinforced this view. The reports on manufacturing, construction, and factory orders released this week showed declines as well. A sluggish economy is generally consistent [...]

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Austin ranked 9th best in the US with less than a 1% risk of a price decline

November 3, 2008

PMI Fall 2008 Risk Index Indicates Rising Foreclosures and Unemployment Intensifying Risk of Future Home Price Declines
Housing Affordability Continues to Improve
WALNUT CREEK, Calif., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ — PMI Mortgage Insurance Co., the primary U.S. subsidiary of The PMI Group, Inc. (NYSE: PMI), today released its Fall 2008 U.S. Market Risk Index(SM), which shows increases in [...]

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Fearless Predictions

November 1, 2008

DE-FENSE [clap, clap] DE-FENSE [clap, clap]. That needs to be our chant
throughout the entire game tomorrow because…the best defense WINS this
one! The Wizard of Odd will have his Crazy Pirate Crew fired up, but
will it be enough?

First, some random observations from last week: It was not a pretty showing. We were plagued with HORRIBLE tackling
that [...]

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Signs show Austin home prices cooling

October 24, 2008

By Shonda Novak
AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
In September, Central Texas home sales fell for the 15th consecutive month as the Austin area continued to feel the effects of the national real estate slowdown, tighter lending standards and heightened uncertainty about the economy. But the median price of $182,600 was unchanged from last [...]

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FEARLESS PREDICTIONS 10/16

October 16, 2008

BOOM Sooners! Thanks for visiting, now get in your homes and head back north!! What an amazing weekend of football. It’s been a long while since the Horns took care of business AND got some help from the competition, but it all came together for the ultimate prize. There’s so much to talk about, I [...]

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FEARLESS PREDICTIONS UT VS OU

October 10, 2008

Buffalo burgers. That’s what I was craving after watching our sound dispatching of the Mighty Bison last Saturday. How about Chris Ogbonnaya? 116 receiving yds, 71 yds rushing including a 51 yard crusher that took the life out of CU.
We haven’t had a complete game like that from one of our RB’s in recent memory. [...]

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FEARLESS PREDICTION – UT vs CU

October 4, 2008

How ironic that Bill Murray was on the sideline for last Saturday’s game. When I looked at our young DB’s, I couldn’t help thinking about
his movie “What About Bob?”…baby steps. When I looked at the score, I thought about “Groundhog Day”…52-10, again? Or maybe “Caddyshack”? Giddyup…you crazy gopher hunter!
What a great time [...]

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