Josh Hahn's (bubbleman) Blog

Is it just me, or has this been the decade of granite counters!This will be a short post, but I am wondering if the flippers favorite upgrade (didn't your read....buy...and granite....reprice +$50K)Will my children look at those countertops like I look at those shag carpets or pasiley wallpaper? ...

Did you all catch Hovnanian's super sale this weekend?Have you ever, ever, ever seen a national builder slashing $150,000.00 off homes across the country.Can you say PANIC? If this isn't a sign that the market is tanking fast I don't know what is?But wait...did they really do this across the WHOL...

How solid is your mortgage lender?Customers with American Home Mortgage may have a nasty surprise:In Baltimore "Checks sent out by the troubled American Home Mortgage Investment Corp. to pay the property taxes of more than 70 homeowners in the Baltimore metropolitan area have bounced, local offic...

Are you considering buying a home? Refinancing?A friend of mine had a pretty bad experience. In the process, she stubbled across a website that was a collective warning about Countrywide.This is not advice. I personally have no experience with CW, but the site is shocking.  READ the stories under...