Kelli Ackett has tried all the usual means to sell her house. She tried to sell it by herself. She held yard sales to try to attract buyers. She listed it with Zephyrhills real estate broker Bill Nye, who has put the property on the Internet and in local newspapers. ...more

January 18, 2008

The real estate market is ringing in the New Year on its sourest note yet. ...more

December 31, 2007

Florida's lawmakers are once again scrambling to shore up the state budget in the face of a slumping economy. It's human nature to deal with the here and now. But what's needed - and desperately so - is a plan for the long haul, not just the next election cycle. ...more

November 20, 2007

loans extended to those with no credit or bad credit - many are calling for the government to do something to stop the suffering. At the same time, many recognize that a bailout of struggling homeowners would be wrong. Thus, we see a growing list of proposed solutions that purport to save the day without a bailout: "borrower assistance" programs to refinance defaulting mortgages, crackdowns on "predatory lending" practices, or laws restricting mortgages the government deems too risky. ...more

November 12, 2007

It's hard to know how scared to be if you don't know the size of the threat. No, not terrorism, housing. ...more

September 4, 2007