Cleveland Real Estate News

Through Market Watch, I found an interesting web article written by someone with a moniker named Shades of Green. He’s talking about the now a few years old question, what will make the market recover? The title of his article is called Escaping House Arrest  (great title). One point he makes is that we are a Country of people who are used to moving around, especially for jobs or more sunshine, or just to change. He also makes the point that the decline in the sale prices of homes have made this movement harder, thus the title indicating many of us are under house arrest. Truth be told, I fit that category too, not unlike many of you I’m sure! What will make the housing market recover? Maybe the same thing that will bring vitality to NE Ohio. And it’s not  close to being about homes and foreclosures. It’s about jobs. It’s about creating good infrastructures. (Passenger rail, sewer and water systems that don’t flood, etc). We have particular issues here; can anyone say corruption and not think of all the trouble that has to have taken the focus (and money) off issues that need to be addressed on the Cuyahoga County level. We need to be focused on where NE Ohio can go to create these jobs.  Yes it’s green, it’s also passenger rail and light rail, it’s cooperation between the business communities, the local governments, the non-profits and the residential residents…all things that I saw with rose colored glasses while I lived in Maryland. I frequently said to my fellow Marylanders: you know, in Cleveland, there is a lot of cross cooperation among the private and public sector and we need more of that here. Well when I returned at the end of the ’90s, I realized my rose colored glasses were a tad clouded up! I still think it works better here, but there are so many fiefdoms of power (the schools, the foundations, the elected officials, etc) and it seems to be hard to get things to change. This could be naive on my part, but I’m thinking our economic issues got bad enough that we are finally willing to get out of our homes and tackle the issues. Many of us are seeing that we can’t rely on our government to do the right thing; we need to take charge ourselves. It’s kind of exciting! Good articles always manage to get me off on a tangent! Take the time to read Under House Arrest and maybe your mind will wander to some solutions too. Peace Out -3C