Well, I've laughed, I've cried... kissed the housing market goodbye; not to mention having to watch fire wreak havoc on our great city, but here we are still only in October. It's been a tough year for many people I know and love as well as myself. I'm not one to blog about anything very much, but after our decompression, I felt compelled to say something about it. Seeing all those happy faces provided a much needed boost. It put a smile on my face and reminded me of many of the wonderful people I know and how truly thankful I should be.

*UPDATED May 3, 2007*
The mainstream media has recently decided that the housing market has reached a bottom. What does this mean to you? It means that as the news media continually leaks this idea out there to the general public, the trend will begin shifting to a market where there is more buying than selling. This also means that YOU can get in ahead of this trend by getting in at the lows that will inevitably begin to move back up.

Several of you out there have asked me to give some pointers about how to invest in real estate. All kinds of questions have come up: qualifying for a loan, balancing value and affordability, timing the markets, understanding the purchase process. So after talking to many of you, it occurred to me that this might be a cool way to support the burner community. I will give Burners FREE real estate advice. To make it easier for you guys, I’ve broken down what my areas of expertise are and some commonly asked questions.

1. The income and tax benefits of home ownership.
2. How to purchase property with less than perfect credit.
3. How to improve your credit scores; what factors the credit companies use to compute your score and how to get around their rules.
4. The many different loans that are available: how they work, how to find the best one for your situation and how to qualify.
5. How to set up your short or long term real estate goals.
6. How to find a property to fit your lifestyle.
7. How to get your offer accepted above the competition.

I have been in the Real Estate and Mortgage business for nearly a decade and have several years of experience as a real estate investor in California as well as other states.
So, if you are interested in learning how to do any or all of these, either hit me up on tribe or call me directly @ 702-496-6758.

For open discussion of any real estate or mortgage topics come to the Burner Real Estate & Mortgage tribe:
tribes.tribe.net/burnerrealtestate

Hope I can be of help.
BB

Well the retardation of our society has hopefully gained enough momentum for everyone to be disgusted enough to cause a huge backlash. If you don't believe me check this out...

www.answersingenesis.org/docs2...rk.asp

The days of two justice systems, one for whites and one for blacks, should be over. The days of Jim Crow are, however, still with us. The state of Georgia, which has traditionally taken up the rear of our society when it came to civil rights, has obviously done little to mend it's ways. Please read on and contribute your signature to this petition if you are as outraged as I am by this one example of the widespread injustice and abuse of citizens by their government.

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Please read the article linked above about a high school student who has been sentenced to ten years in a Georgia state prison without the possibility of parole, followed by a lifetime label as a registered sex offender, for receiving a consensual blow job from a classmate. He was 17, she was 15.

The most disturbing excerpt from the article (keep in mind that the convicted, Genarlow Wilson, is a young black man):

=== The position of (assigned prosecutor) Eddie Barker and the district attorney, David McDade, who refused to comment, is that Wilson is guilty under the law and there is no room for mercy, though the facts seem to say they simply chose not to give it to Wilson. At the same time this trial was under way, a local high school teacher, a white female, was found guilty of having a sexual relationship with a student -- a true case of child molestation. The teacher received 90 days. Wilson received 3,650 days. ===

I refuse to accept that this is allowed to happen anywhere in our country, and I cannot just forget about this and click my mouse onto the next bit of info. If you are as outraged by this as I am, then please sign the petition here:

www.wilsonappeal.com/petition.php

It'll take you all of 10 seconds to sign it, and all they need is your name and city of residence.

If you're looking for a chance to make a positive difference in someone's life, here it is.

Thank you.

PS: And if you can reprint this in some form in your own blog, to help spread the word, so much the better.

Well I guess I've been tagged enough times to motivate me...

1. I am the proud father of a little white poodle named Buckaroo. His real name is Conrad but a girl I used to date started calling him Buckaroo and the name stuck; however he will respond to just about any expletive you direct at him.

2. My last years of high school I spent at ski academy in Squaw Valley, Ca. and learned less about downhill racing and more about the screwed up children of the wealthy-elite. It was more interesting to me because I really didn't fall into that category; screwed up perhaps, but certainly not wealthy. The rich really are different. Weird times.

3. I have been a fan of Hunter S. Thompson since the age of 15. The child psychologist my parents sent me to was taken with my intensely cynical, sense of humor and recommended that I read his stuff. This also later inspired me to study and work as a journalist. Unfortunately, my parents quit sending me back to him after he told them that I was just fine and they were actually the weirdos.

4. I was more broken up over the death of my ex-girlfriend's dog than I had been over the death of either of my grandparents. I was inconsolable for several days.

5. I write poetry; I rarely have ever let anyone see it. Next to the music I play, it is the closest thing to the real me.

6. This has been observed and explained to me:
If I consider someone a friend, I will almost obscessively go out of my way to assist or accommodate that person in any way I can.
If I do not consider someone a friend, they don't exist.

7. My parents moved us to Las Vegas in 1981 and I knew of, went to school with, and was driven to baseball practice by many of the real people from the movie "Casino". I remember when the movie came out my parents and grandparents saying "wow, It was a lot crazier in real life"

8. I am a tie-clad, La Jolla, mortgage and real estate broker by day; dark, goth-trancer by night. God I love my life...