What kind of good energy do we have flowing economically in NE Ohio? It’s not all gloom and doom, thank the gods. Let’s start with Mary Vanac’s news in today’s PD about a $350k investment by Jump Start that went to a local company called Tursiop Technologies LLC. Tursiop was given the money to develop [...]
Entries from June 2008
Chicken Little Needs A Nap: Money and Jobs Flowing Into NE Ohio
June 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: economic news · neighborhood news
Cleveland Non Profits Once Again Stepping Up To The Plate, This Time To Help With Abandoned Homes
June 18th, 2008 · No Comments
Neighborhood Progress, Inc. received a grant to take care of 50 vacant/foreclosed homes in the Cleveland area. You can read Michael O’Malley’s PD blog post here. Yes it’s a good thing we are getting money to take care of these properties. I just have this nagging feeling that spending money to then rebuild more homes may not [...]
Tags: Cleveland Real Estate · neighborhood news
Check With Experts Before You Get That Sub Prime Loan
June 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment
There was a Congressional field hearing yesterday and it was held here in Cleveland. You can read about it on Mark Gillispie’s PD Blog. It was a natural that Neighborhood Housing Services of Greater Cleveland testified at this hearing. Lou Tisler was kind enough to provide his testimony which was is definitely worthy reading. (pdf but on [...]
Tags: Cleveland Real Estate
Cleveland One of Top Earning Cities For Financial Analysts
June 15th, 2008 · 5 Comments
Sometimes the lists or best of’s you find in articles can get irritating, but this one actually seems to have some merit. Business Week worked with Payscale.com to come up with the best (and worst) places to live as far as salaries in specific fields are concerned. Cleveland came in at number three for financial [...]
Tags: economic news
The Zen of The Bus
June 14th, 2008 · 5 Comments
Today I had an open house at Pointe At Gateway. Okay, let me back up. First I met with sellers at a new listing at Fries & Schuele, then since I was at the office, my manager drove me to The Pointe. (I had an open house sign….which I left there since I plan on [...]
Tags: Ohio Rail and Transit
Can A Realtor® Ride The Bus and Still Do Her Job?
June 13th, 2008 · 5 Comments
The short answer is yes, with a few caveats. My car became more trouble than it was worth so about three weeks ago I joined the list of newly bus passed commuters. The easy part is getting to and from my office. The #22 picks me up at the corner of my street and takes [...]
Tags: Ohio Rail and Transit
Port Authority Presents It’s Relocation Plan on Monday June 16th
June 13th, 2008 · No Comments
I’m just going to re-post a press release I received today – if you want to find out more about the plan, and ask questions, attend this meeting in Detroit Shoreway: Important Public Meeting Notice! Councilman Joe Cimperman invites you to an important public meeting: CLEVELAND PORT RELOCATION PLAN Presentation by: Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority [...]
Tags: economic development · Ideas · neighborhood news
Does This Get Us One Step Closer to The Ohio Hub?
June 12th, 2008 · No Comments
I hope so. I love the bipartisan support, the overwhelming majority that makes it virtually veto-proof (based on the fact that the Senate has already passed such legislation (SB294). CNN covers this well on their website: House Approves Amtrak Funding. The vote was 311-104…not too shabby! You know, we normally only see names of our [...]
Tags: Ohio Rail and Transit
Just In Case You Doubt There Really Was Predatory Lending
June 11th, 2008 · No Comments
Mark Gillispie of the PD wrote about three people who got caught doing a mess of bad things to home buyers. Two were operating a title company and it was called Ace (a red flag would have gone up just on the name had I heard it). There was also a mortgage person working through [...]
Tags: Cleveland Real Estate
Is There Really An Artist In All Of Us?
June 10th, 2008 · 4 Comments
That is the belief of Mark Quinn and Jose and the others at Artist Review Today. I can do the two curved lines of birds flying away and some sunsets……I guess my creativity shows in other areas, how about you guys? Regardless, the folks at Artist In Review are very creative, something you can check [...]
Tags: Cleveland Events
