Cleveland Real Estate News

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SB5 is a hot issue. Governor Kasich drew his line in the sand but now says (for whatever reason) he wants to sit down with the Union reps and talk out a plan. We just went through what seemed like universal public outrage at our elected officials in Congress because no one was willing to [...]

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Passenger rail ridership IS at a five decade high, and his article, while focused on the eastern seabord to a point, shows why we really could boost our economy by spending money on something useful for a change, like high speed rail.  I am praying our own efforts in Ohio don’t get derailed. Why don’t [...]

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County Recorder Lillian Greene is legally challenging the elimination of her job, since she is in the middle of her contract.  WKSU points out that Greene isn’t the only Cuyahoga office holder who will be affected if she wins. Two commissioners — Peter Lawson Jones and Tim Hagan — as well as the engineer, clerk [...]

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Somewhere around the Fourth of July, I read that Verizon had joined forces with Frontier for broadband Internet services.  I was wondering  how things were progressing.  Would it become available in Ohio?  How is the service?  It seemed like a good idea, based solely on the fact that there would be more competition for services [...]

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We have a primary coming up in September (7th) and then the general election in November, and I feel as if the political ads have been running since before Obama and Strickland got elected (yes, I overstate but it SEEMS that way).  Most of you probably already know about Snopes.com, where you can check facts [...]

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So the Tea Party is jumping on the Free Internet bandwagon?  That would be great, but, not so much. They are complaining that big brother (well, Obama) shut down 73,000 blogs ‘willy nilly.’ Again, not so much. My understanding is that these sites were all participating in piiracy of videos. You know, that pesky thing [...]

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I’m not surprised, but then again, I’m in the business.  I know a pesky Utah investor, for example, who owns a lot of property here, keeps trying to buy my listings at outrageously low prices.  I know of others, and you probably know of the foreclosed properties owned by large banks like Deutsche and Wells [...]

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Take it with a grain of salt, like everything else we read, but still worth reading. It’s been 11 years since Allegheny County in Pittsburgh switched to a Co. Executive/Council form of government. If nothing else, Jim Nichols’ PD article  interviews a cross section of people who were in the trenches in Pittsburgh when the [...]

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Signed into law a few hours ago, there are now more financial incentives to keep up (or start) your home search, if this is a good time for you personally, to buy.  Having good housing inventory to choose from is important too.  To all who may have wanted to put their homes up for sale [...]

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