Posts Tagged ‘real estate’
The New York Times has a story on Atlanta’s depressed housing market. It paints a dire picture of my hometown: The reasons for Atlanta’s housing woes are both representative of the nation’s troubles and special to this former boomtown, where housing appreciated handsomely, though not to the lofty heights of Las Vegas, Miami and New [...]
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Tags: Atlanta, finance, real estate
From a very good personal story in The New York Times, about a financial planner who ended up losing his house: Borrowing that much had seemed to make sense when the value of the home was still rising substantially every year, taking our net worth higher with it. But at that point, there was no [...]
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Tags: borrowing, contractual obligation, finance, financial planning, Las Vegas, money, moral obligation, mortgage, real estate
