Intermediate Information: February 2009 Archives

The new consumer article for today is Confusing Past Performance and the Present Situation with Future Planning.

If you are sitting on the sidelines thinking about buying property, you need to read it. If you have a property you're thinking about selling or walking away from, you also need to read it, albeit for the exact opposite reason.

The new consumer article for today is Lipstick on a Pig: Selling the Property You Should Never Have Bought. It talks about general techniques for selling properties with issues that make them less attractive to buyers.

The new consumer article for today is Transaction Coordinator: For The Agent's Benefit, Not The Consumers. Transaction coordinators are mostly a good thing, helping agents ensure compliance and coordinating between various parties to the transaction. But asking consumers to pay for them is asking those consumers to pay a second time for things their agent has already agree to do, and there is a danger that the agent leans too much on a transaction coordinator and disengages themselves from the transaction.