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Frank Zappa Unsentimental Guitarist
Music Gear Research & Resources | Guitars & Amps Auctions |… | August 28th 2008 by GEARVAULT
Frank Zappa never had much use for sentimentality. As a lyricist, he could be sly, silly or bitingly sarcastic, addressing anything from groupie sex to the perils of yellow snow. But he had no more use for soft-hearted sentiment that he did for those read more
Maryland is the highest income state
Baltimore HUD Homes | August 28th 2008 by Carlos Sagastume
New Census numbers continue to rank Maryland No. 1 for median household income — $68,080 from July 2006 to July 2007. Income rose 1.6 percent from the year before, accounting for inflation.Sumathi Reddy’s story today notes that Howard, Ca read more
I Hope To See You There . . .
Mature Market Experts | August 28th 2008 by Tom Mann
Mature Market Experts, Two worthwhile events coming up: 1. AARP’s Life @50, National Event and Expo in Washington, DC (Sept. 4-6) 2. The North American Mature Publishers Association (NAMPA) Annual Convention in St. Louis (Novemb read more
Mortgage fraud on the rise
Baltimore HUD Homes | August 28th 2008 by Carlos Sagastume
Mortgage fraud, which helped contribute to the housing boom, is still going strong, according to a report out this week. The Mortgage Asset Research Institute says reported fraud in the first three months of the year increased more than 40 percent fr read more
The City That Bleeds
Defying Despondency | August 28th 2008 by Steve Rebooted
Last weekend, we attended D.’s brother’s birthday party. We got there late cuz I was in New York. He lives in an area which I’d talked about before. D.’s brother is a resident at Johns Hopkins, and like many struggling s read more
Baltimore Real Estate
Cody Sortore's Ramblings | August 27th 2008 by Cody Sortore
Everybody knows that with the housing crisis it is imperative that you get a good realtor that is experienced in both good and bad markets to get you the best deals. Granted this is important no matter what the market is like it is especially import read more
Billy Idol Gives Back - Rocks Baltimore with a Rebel Yell
Z-Car | August 27th 2008
Last Friday night, a group of us went to see Billy Idol at the Pier 6 Pavilion in Baltimore. I last saw Billy three years ago, and was blown away with his performance. The concert this year did not let us down, it was a non-stop explosion of rock. Id read more
Coal News
Extra Content | August 27th 2008 by Andrew Taylor
Russian steelmaker OAO Severstal has purchased PBS Coals,which owns 12 mines in Pennsylvania.The coal is needed for Severstal's U.S. mills.Severstal had recently purchased the Sparrows Point mill in Baltimore,Maryland from Arcelor Mittal(MT). read more
NOCNITSA
MINDGRINDER | August 27th 2008 by Fred White
This is in reference to the post we made back when NOCNITSA made their first appearance at WMUC on Third Rail with Ol' Scratch. The dude who was originally hosting a recording of their live gig at the Talking Head, a month before the WMUC show, took read more
Neighbors, Boats, Bayfront Summers And a Reverence For Tradition
Baltimore HUD Homes | August 27th 2008 by Carlos Sagastume
Owings Beach is still cozy. There are still snug cottages, built in the 1920s for summer getaways to the bayside enclave in the Deale portion of southern Anne Arundel County. Narrow streets bearing local family names are still walkable because deep d read more
Mortgage Shopping, Incognito
Baltimore HUD Homes | August 27th 2008 by Carlos Sagastume
LOS ANGELES — Even though mortgage lenders have raised the bar on what it takes to qualify for a home loan, shopping for a loan online has gotten easier, if not necessarily less confusing. Where mortgage-scouting Web sites traditionally require read more
Appraisal Problems Worsened Meltdown
Baltimore HUD Homes | August 27th 2008 by Carlos Sagastume
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — As soaring home prices set the stage for America’s great housing meltdown, a critical step in making sure those home sales were a fair deal the real estate appraisal was undermined from within. After the nation’ read more
A Worthy Read to Get Serious About Estate Planning
Baltimore HUD Homes | August 27th 2008 by Carlos Sagastume
W e spend most of our waking hours either working to earn money or thinking about what we’ll do with it: spend it, save it or invest it, lawyer John Ventura observes in his book “Kiplinger’s Estate Planning: The Complete Guide to Wi read more
Professional Tests Can Uncover Exposure to Lead
Baltimore HUD Homes | August 27th 2008 by Carlos Sagastume
Lead paint poses a real threat to your family’s health, especially if you have children. Older homes are particularly at risk for lead exposure. If you live in a house more than 30 years old and haven’t yet tested for lead, it’s not read more
Appraisers, Still Feeling Pressure
Baltimore HUD Homes | August 27th 2008 by Carlos Sagastume
Have the real estate valuation shenanigans and inflated home appraisals that characterized the boom years disappeared? Or are mortgage loan officers and real estate agents — even individual home sellers — attempting to influence or interf read more
Searching for A Hot Investment Try Your Mortgage.
Baltimore HUD Homes | August 27th 2008 by Carlos Sagastume
The strategy is as old school as they come, but, lately, these mortgage prepayments have been our household's highest-performing investment. That's true even when you consider that a shrinking mortgage balance nibbles away at our most important incom read more
Chat Plus
Baltimore HUD Homes | August 27th 2008 by Carlos Sagastume
Real estate editor Maryann Haggerty and columnist Elizabeth Razzi respond to a question adapted from a recent online chat. Washington: My wife wants to buy a house in a very specific area. The prices have crashed far enough so that we may be able to read more
See what’s happening in your area
Baltimore HUD Homes | August 27th 2008 by Carlos Sagastume
The numbers show a sharp change since the peak of buying three years ago. Sales have dropped by at least half in one out of three communities in the metro area. Average sale prices are down in one out of five communities compared with 2005. read more
How to Monday: International lookylooing
Baltimore HUD Homes | August 27th 2008 by Carlos Sagastume
The Baltimore Sun's redesign, which launched yesterday, has had a last-minute ripple effect on How-to Mondays. Rather than appearing first here and then being reprinted (at least in part) in the paper, it will be print-first (Sundays in Real Estate) read more
Rating the home-search sites
Baltimore HUD Homes | August 27th 2008 by Carlos Sagastume
Odds are, you’ve searched for homes online at some point — either to buy, to get intelligence so you could sell or to satisfy your curiosity. What sites did you find useful? Clever? Frustrating?The Baltimore Sun’s real estate sectio read more
Don’t forget about closing costs
Baltimore HUD Homes | August 27th 2008 by Carlos Sagastume
Bankrate.com says in a report this month that typical closing costs in Maryland are $3,118 for a $200,000 loan, ranking the state 23rd in the country. That's a little better, relatively speaking, than last year, when the state was 19th. New York by w read more
More people searching for Baltimore real estate
Baltimore HUD Homes | August 27th 2008 by Carlos Sagastume
{Real Estate Agent}.com says consumer searches for homes listed in the Baltimore metro area on its site last month increased 27 percent from the year before. That means more people are looking — or at least researching – even if that read more
No Prohibition advertisement, Fells Point, Baltimore Harbor
Joe Duck | August 26th 2008 by Joseph Hunkins
No Prohibition Ad, Fells Point, Baltimore Harbor 265 Originally uploaded by JoeDuck Fells Point is one of Baltimore’s most historic areas. Here, a “Vote Against Prohibition” advertisement has lasted long past the demise of Prohibit read more
Baltimore, Maryland (Travellin’ Man)
What's The 401?!?! | August 25th 2008 by Joseph DeRita
Hit up B-More this weekend to catch the last game of the Yanks, O’s series. This was my first time travelling to Baltimore and also my first trip to Camden Yards. I have to say that both were equally impressive. My father, his girlfriend, read more
Body Worlds in Baltimore Closing Sept. 1st
The DC Traveler | August 25th 2008
I really enjoyed the preserved bodies exhibit and so did close to 300,000 other visitors to Body Worlds 2, at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. The exhibit is closing on September 1st, 2008, so here’s you last chance to exp read more
Inattentive Driver Plows into Procession of Funeral Cars
Commercial Auto Dealers | August 25th 2008 by AC Jones
Did you hear the story about the driver who plowed into a line of funeral cars in a procession earlier this month? I’m surprised this doesn’t happen more often with the way people drive these days. The “accident” took place in read more
Children for Sex: The Mommy Instinct at Work.
Mobtown Mafioso | August 24th 2008
Whenever you complain about someone's children or a bad parent someone retorts with a line about how "If you're not a parent, you don't understand" as if being a parent was some mystically endowed knowledge rather than a skill learned through study a read more
Socialism Needs A Hero
Mobtown Mafioso | August 24th 2008
I was given this flyer from the Party of Socialism and Liberation- Baltimore. I am not going to snark on their terrible color scheme, their layout and capitalization scheme at the bottom, or their failure to know that flyers need white space not gob read more
Humpty is a Gangsta
Mobtown Mafioso | August 23rd 2008
A year ago, I found this sketch in a trash can of a local museum I was visiting. I spoke with the docent about it and he chuckled bemused. They said that a city school had just toured the facility and one the children probably created and left it.I read more
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