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by Brian Brady
Commercial Real Estate Finance Expert
Structured Debt and Equity
Licensed Real Estate Broker in AL, CA, and FL
Mortgage Grader is a consumer-operated, automated underwriting system. Jeff Lazerson, its founder, has been working on this idea for 3-4 years. It was released this summer. Consumers enter information and are issued an approval. The mortgage grading engine mashes up various automated underwriting systems (FNMA Desktop Originator, proprietary sub-prime engines, etc.), searches out the best […]
For those of you not up to speed, the 10 second version of why we can’t stand Lesley Stahl of 60 Minutes dates back a few months to a grossly slanted piece that amounted to Stahl’s stacking the story to “prove” that traditional real estate brokerages are stupid swindlers even if they discount and turned the article into […]
[I was just finishing this up when I read Greg’s terrific post. Timing in life and all that…] My first jaunt into online polemics was in the early nineties, the topic animal rights. The Animal Liberation Front was active in the Northwest – burning fur farms and research labs to prove the efficacy of their […]
I live in an amazing world, which is to say a world by which I am continuously amazed, without boundary or graduation. Here’s an example: I cannot for the life of me understand why National Association of Realtors President Pat Combs has not called me personally to ask me to come to Las Vegas for […]
If you haven’t subscribed to TED Talks videos on YouTube, then you’re missing an advantage that some of the tech elite get months before we get a chance to see it online. So if you don’t view it on the internet (via YouTube or on the TED Talks website), then you don’t know what you’re […]
Redfin’s financial underbelly, the top-bazillion-bloggers and leftovers from last week’s ActiveRain thunderstorm. These are just some of the topics addressed in this week’s Odysseus Medal competition. Vote for the People’s Choice Award here. You can use the voting interface to see each nominated post, so comparison is easy. Voting runs through to 12 Noon PDT/MST […]
I think I forgot to put the cat out. But, I’m still curious – Who did set fire to her? My personal thermostat is broken. I now spend my days alternating between down jackets and ice packs. If there is a way to simultaneous run the furnace and the air conditioner, I am determined to find […]
Joel Burslem cites a Glenn Kelman quote from a comment to John Cook’s post this morning, but I think this one is more interesting: By the way, no matter how many times the real estate industry insists that we’re JARED (Just Another Real Estate Discounter) we can’t help but add that our goal is to […]
I suppose I should care more than I do about the failed ransacking acquisition of Active Rain by Move.com. What’s less than zero? (Big-shot math geniuses should desist from an argument involving negative numbers). From my overly-simplistic corner, this seems not so much like big news, but like more of the same. It is human nature. […]
This was a great week. It wasn’t easy getting to a short list of twenty nominees, and I think it’s going to be particularly tough to pick an ultimate winner. I can’t imagine it will be any easier for you to vote for the People’s Choice Award. What gets a weblog entry onto this list? […]
We had a lot of news this week, some tragic, some comical. All of it and then some is represented here. This is “the long list” — the total list of nominees that made the cut to be considered for the short list, the nominees available for voting for The People’s Choice Award. What gets […]
Jay Thompson fingered this comment from someone named Brandon writing at TechCrunch: If “the good guys” succeed in “fixing the most screwed up industry in America”, their business model will collapse. Redfin’s success depends SOLELY on the real estate industry STAYING the most screwed up industry in America. Without a co-broker fee of 2-3% to […]
by Brian Brady
Commercial Real Estate Finance Expert
Structured Debt and Equity
Licensed Real Estate Broker in AL, CA, and FL
In an effort to placate angry users, Active Rain announces that the content is owned by the author; not the network. This isolates the membership roster as the only valuable asset in the failed sales to Move.com The platform is not proprietary, the content was never owned (and couldn’t legally be “sold”), and the points […]
VentureBeat: Zillow, the controversial website that gives value estimates of people’s homes and other real estate info, has raised a significant $30 million of funding, despite the mortgage industry credit crunch. The Seattle company has now raised a hefty $87 million in total funding during its short lifetime, making it one of the most richly […]