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House of the Day: Miami's Real-Life Castle, With Moat {AOL Real Estate}
Mar 28th 2012 5:05PM That's the best comment I heard all week. I have a former boss I could send to keep him company, they're two peas in a pod! Just yesterday a former co-worker called me about something else and said the boss that I think is a complete fruitcake is in Hawaii on vacation. I said maybe she'll fall in the volcano. The co-worker just cracked up. She said last year it was an alligator in Florida, this year a volcano, wonder if next year will work?
House of the Day: Miami's Real-Life Castle, With Moat {AOL Real Estate}
Mar 28th 2012 4:44PM They can keep it, I don't like it!
Trouble Blooms: Condo Board Sues Resident Over Flowers {AOL Real Estate}
Mar 20th 2012 4:06PM The human being that ever created the concept of a home owners assocation or condo board literally should be shot. WHY anyone would move into a home where they have basically NO authority or control over the exterior of their home and many other things is beyond my understanding. To be honest, this concept goes against EVERY value Americans usually hold dear. The ONLY creation worse than this is the modern American nursing home system. It's the ENTIRE reason we created an independent living retirement community. In OUR facility we don't rob seniors blind in their last golden years. WHY would anyone pay several hundred thousand dollars for a property, several hundred a month in fees and when they die own NOTHING? In addition, WHY would families pay $8,000 to $10,000 a month, ENTIRE estates, hand over EVERYTHING to a nursing home that provides pathethic care at best instead of caring for their loved ones at home? We've cared for several loved ones at home. It's the way families are SUPPOSE to be. People wonder why the American family has crashed. This is a MAIN contribution. It used to be numerous generations lived together with all contributing to the family. It works! Just ask the Amish or Mennonites. My mother has worked in one for 20 years and you REALLY don't want to know what happens even in the best of them which is SUPPOSE to include her location. I despise HOAs which is why at our location we have allowed clothlines, we provide raised gardening beds upon request (wheelchair accessible), pets, and many other things this age group are used to having their entire lives. Of course we maintain control and certain standards of what goes in, but we encourage our residents to make their townhouse feel like a home, not a sterile hospital room. I will NEVER understand why people tolerate this? Americans scream about AHY other types of controls, why are they such suckers for this system? In NO other place in their lives, would they tolerate such a thing. I thought socialized living was what communism was for. I have a friend who owns a townhouse and her HOA fees are at least half of her mortgage. I told her she's NUTS! Me, I'll stick to my 200 year old colonial home where I can do ANYTHING I want. I have a hard enough time having my town tell me what kinds of trees I can plant in front. Aren't most of these reasons the ENTIRE basis of why America exist? ALL of our ancestors fled governments who wanted FAR too much control over their lives. All I can say is when any sort of association or "laws" creates this much fuss over such a BEAUTIFUL flower bed such as this, the ENTIRE American system is broken. I can understand if she had a disgusting mess and filth on her yard or porch, but personally, I would LOVE to have my neighborhood look so lovely. I feel sorry for those against these flowers, they have lost ALL common sense, sensible reason and Christian values and I hope one day these actions turn around and haunt them. They're miserable people who can't POSSIBLY be happy in life. How sad!
Paul Hogan's Malibu Home Hits Market at $6.5 Million {AOL Real Estate}
Mar 1st 2012 5:56PM I wish they would make some more Crocodile Dundee movies, I LOVED the ones they did.
Chainsaw-Wielding FBI Team Busts Into Wrong Home {AOL Real Estate}
Feb 2nd 2012 9:57AM What makes this story even more embarassing to the FBI is that EVERY FBI graduate MUST also be a 4 year college graduate. What does that say about the people they are recruiting? This is also the first time a law enforcement agency has done this idiotic stupid thing. I hope heads rolled when they got back to headquarters and they should. To make such a basic, preventable mistake is unforgiveable. There are NO reasons anyone can give for why this happened. I feel for this woman, I would have been TERRIFIED!
A light sleeper's lament: six things you shouldn't do in a hotel {Gadling}
Jan 14th 2012 10:18AM This person has obviously stayed at some of the same places with me. Until about 6 years ago I had to travel frequently for both my job and a hobby business and was always in hotels it seems. For some reason people think when they get away from their own home and family they can do ANYTHING they want, all rules of common sense are off. I agree with everything this person writes and could probably add a dozen of my own. If you are one of these offenders, PLEASE remember that yes, someone IS talking about you.
The 10 Best U.S. Cities For Families (SLIDESHOW) {AOL Real Estate}
Jan 14th 2012 9:49AM I don't understand why everyone is writing and commenting on Virginia Beach, the #1 city is Greensboro, NC and that's mostly what the article is trying to point out. That's why I don't understand why the number one place is in the middle of North Carolina and yet the picture they show is that of a beach. There isn't a beach within several hundred miles of Greensboro.
Family Wrongly Booted From Home Returns To Wreckage {AOL Real Estate}
Dec 1st 2011 5:08PM It's lawsuit time. What they need now is a GOOD lawyer who will sue the bank if for nothing else the emotional trauma inflicted on this family. In this country for FAR too long we have given ENORMOUS amounts of power to banks. When in fact, what are banks? They are places we place OUR money to watch over it and store it for us. Banks should have to answer to the customers, not the other way around and yet, we've given banks the power of evil dictators. It's time things change. If nothing else this terrible time with homeowners is waking up the citizens of the US and hopfully forcing banks to change.
BofA Threatens Family With Foreclosure Over $1 'Coding Error' {AOL Real Estate}
Nov 5th 2011 11:40AM I think what this woman needs is a good lawyer. It's time people stop sitting back afraid to speak up against banks. Several years ago a bank tried to pull a real fast one on my family and a business we all own together. Banks certainly don't go out of their way to treat us, their customers with ANY consideration. Trust me on this one. My new sister-in-law has worked for a bank for about 25 years and the stories she could tell you about how banks operate would make anyone go gray. They put themselves #1 and don't give a #%&* about their customers. The concept of "customer service" is a phrase they use solely in advertising but actually performing any is an unheard of concept. Now I'm not talking USUALLY about the individual teller there to deposit those checks for you. ALTHOUGH, they too have their instructions on how to "manage" your transactions that often cost you money and GIVES them more money. The days when banks and bankers were among THE most respected and trusted entitites in a community are LONG gone. Banks now rank up there among leagalized con artists and thieves with credit card companies, insurance companies and car dealers. So....if this is how they want to be, it's time for the American people to start playing hard ball too. Unfortunately this involves another rather unsavory group...LAWYERS. But, a good lawyer can often put a bank who has done something like this in their place and often even get a settlement out of them for you. Banks like everyone else HATE bad publicity. Trust me, they don't skip a heartbeat worried about you when YOU make a mistake. We need to be just as cold-hearted with banks as they are with us. After all, just what are they doing for us now? It's certainly not being good stewards in taking care of our money. How much interest did you earn last year in 2010?
'Mortgage Prof': 5 Reasons Banks Would Rather Foreclose {AOL Real Estate}
Oct 19th 2011 4:20PM Bottom line is that banks are legalized con artists. My sister-in-law has worked for a bank for 25 years and the things she tells us that is standard ordinary practice would make the general public so angry they'd probably burn all banks down. They do EVERYTHING, and I mean EVERYTHING they can to gouge more money and fees out of everyone they come into contact with at the bank. Even the way they deposit checks and deposits is set up to make you overdraft if possible. Every withdrawal is put through before they EVER put through the deposit. Lots of little things that will earn them extra money. Tellers and staff are TAUGHT to do this. Obama and Congress gave away billions to banks to help US, the taxpayer and the banks kept every single damn penny of this money and didn't pass one single dime of it on to the banking customers. For this alone Obama needs to go. My family learned about 4 years ago that banks are nothing but legalized con artists along with insurance comanies, oil companies and credit card companies. All 4 need to be COMPLETELY re-regulated by OUR government with laws that are for the benefit of the CITIZENS of this country, not the government.
