Cleveland Real Estate News

Today the Senate version passed, now the House has their version…more money than the Senate version – they claim it has more emphasis on jobs. Here is a site where you can read the versions yourself: ReadTheStimulus.org. Both versions are there. I’m of course very interested in what will finally happen with passenger rail, but [...]

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Have you ever heard of an earth shelter home? Wikepedia describes this construction as “….the architectural practice of using earth against building walls for external thermal mass, to reduce heat loss, and to easily maintain a steady indoor air temperature….”  I found a site called Earth Shelter Technology, Inc. and it intrigued me. It’s not as if their [...]

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What a beautiful day  here in sunny, cloudless Cleveland! I’ve spent the past two days working on reorganizing my home office space because after a while it just has to be done! Still a lot to do but feeling good about life, as most organizing can make you feel. Not that I try it often enough! [...]

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Lucky for you (and me!) Jay Thompson, a top notch real estate colleague from Arizona, wrote a great article of explanation regarding this revision, with good links as well. Jay is the Phoenix Real Estate Guy and his post is here. The Tax Credit as initially devised, was a loan but now it seems as [...]

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I’m asking a serious question, and since it’s 2:00 am I can’t very well call anyone to get an answer. Senator Voinovich is not happy that HUD has sold homes to speculators (his term) when they should fix up the homes or tear them down instead. What got me thinking about this is the Mark [...]

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If Ohio were to build a high speed rail system would you use it? Yes  63.3% No  19.8% Not sure  16.9% The above are results of a WKYC on line poll being conducted – and you can vote too. Would you support passenger rail improvements in Ohio? The poll information was at the end of [...]

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This morning we have learned that Senator Kit Bond (R-MO) plans to introduce an amendment on the Senate floor today that would strip the $2 billion for High Speed Rail projects from the American Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act, over concerns that these are not short term, but long term investments. Senator Bond is wrong [...]

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Cleveland City Council will be dealing with CDBG’s (Community Development Block Grants) this Wednesday at City Hall… interested in what’s going to happen with vacant land taken over by the City? What part will your neighborhood CDC’s play in 1) home upkeep assistance and 2) vacant lands 3) community gardens, etc.? This is your chance [...]

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Yes, in spite of my love hate relationship with lists, I found the posting on the Yahoo! website listing where jobs can be found fairly interesting. So I had to share. First is the government. A lot of the jobs will be political appointees but it also includes things like census work for the 2010 [...]

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That is a question running through my mind after reading the somewhat in depth and very interesting article in today’s Washington Post  on Ohio’s lobbying efforts to get stimulus package two monies. 1) if monies are given directly to Governors, will monies within the states go where they can create jobs and fix infrastructure or [...]

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