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  • Attack of the real estate rip-offs

    07/23/2006 1:40:40 PM PDT · by ex-Texan · 74 replies · 2,382+ views
    Forbes ^ | 7/19/2006 | Tom Van Riper and Steve Perlis
    Urge to cash in on the housing bubble has spawned an industry of schemers: Every boom has a dark side. The merger mania of the 1980s produced insider trading scandals. The '90s stock bubble was busted for biased investment research. And so it is with real estate, the hottest market of the past eight years. The urge to cash in on rising home values has spawned a growing share of hucksters, schemers and rip-off artists. Learn how to avoid ten of the biggest real estate rip-offs or view Video: Real Estate Rip-OffsClick HereSo far, it is tough to know exactly...
  • The Big Glut: Trouble in Paradise

    05/29/2006 11:31:33 AM PDT · by ex-Texan · 27 replies · 1,460+ views
    Barron's ^ | 5/29/2006 | Robin Goldwyn Blumenthal
    IT WOULD SEEM TO HAVE IT ALL: four bedrooms, a guest house, a pool and a rock waterfall. But the vacation home in Naples, Fla., hasn't been drawing much interest from buyers, so the seller recently threw in that most modern of amenities: the $1 million price cut. That's brought the asking price down a full 25%. "If you want to sell, you've got to go back to '04 prices," says Chip Harris of Coldwell Banker Previews International, which is handling the property. * * * After a long string of double-digit annual price increases, a number of second-home meccas...