News Times Miami

News Times Miami
Will you miss any of these fine publications which are the 10 most?

endangered newspapers ?

I certainly won’t miss the SF Comical – its nothing but lib-tripe from front to back. My parrot might miss having his cage lined with the editorial page, however.

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Investing in Real Estate in Tough Times

Real estate, like any other commodity, is subject to valuations based on market fluctuations which are sometimes unpredictable and, in some very rare cases, such as is the present situation, can be downright devastating. While this does entail some bad news for many homeowners, it also does present certain opportunities which typically don’t exist in a normal real estate market. As is the case in any free market situation, crisis sometimes presents an equal amount of opportunity in its wake.

As the price of housing goes down, the situation becomes what’s termed a “buyer’s market”. Just as the colloquial name implies, this situation is advantageous for those who are looking for a way in to the real estate market but who may have been prohibited from entry by the high prices that have characterized the past 10 years. While housing “bubbles” do present some advantages for homeowners, they are anathema to home buyers. The current situation represents a reversal of fortunes and those who were only able to buy at the lowest end of the market may now find themselves availed of opportunities to buy much more impressive properties than they would have assumed.

Investors who do have money to spend can also take advantage of a situation such as that which currently exists and oftentimes do. Buying low, selling high is the ancient mantra of the market and it applies to real estate as much as it applies to the stocks traded on Wall Street. While the market may be unreasonably low at present, no market remains in the same situation for long and it’s essentially inevitable—provided one uses history and market economics as their guide—that the market will swing upward. The question is whether this upward swing will come sooner rather than later.

Different areas of the nation have vastly different real estate markets. Among realtors, it’s commonly-expressed that certain markets tend to rise and fall ahead of the curve or behind it, depending on which specific region they’re referencing. Among the first regions of the nation to be hit was Florida, which saw huge declines in the values of homes. Florida, however, also was among the first to see the large rises in home prices characteristic of the bubble. Investors will likely start looking toward areas such as Florida as the first regions likely to experience the first upticks of recovery.

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Do you find it ironic that on ESPN there is a blue team (Buffalo) and a red team (Miami Ohio) playing during ?

the election? More ironic stuff is the score right now reflects the projected electoral votes at this time per CNN and Fox News, also new York go Democratic and Ohio may go Republican. Another ironic thing is one player on one team has a last name of McCain and on the other team Obama.

Ironic.

WAMI-69 MIAMI NEWS “THE FINAL TIMES” – 2000 – PART TWO