Category Archives: Mortgage & Appraisers

5×5 Night in Grand Rapids

April 25, 2011 – 8:58 am

5 ideas, 5 minutes each, 5 slides each, 5 judges, 5,000 dollars 5×5 Night is a monthly event in Grand Rapids that allows 5 people to pitch their ideas to a panel of judges who decide how to award $5,000 on the last Tuesday night of every month. The third 5×5 happens tomorrow night at [...]

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Real Estate Gold Amidst Detroit’s Downturn

September 9, 2009 – 7:01 am

Slows by farlane A few weeks ago NPR had an interesting feature titled Despite Tough Times, Some See Opportunity In Detroit that looked at how Detroit’s dramatic downturn has created some amazing opportunities for starting businesses. Phil Cooley says the city is wide open for new ventures and is tolerant of his mistakes and successes. [...]

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Five things you need to know for Thursday, March 27, 2008

March 27, 2008 – 9:47 am

Welcome to a special Michigan Homes & Real Estate edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan. Before I dive in I wanted to say a little something about our month themes. We got the word that a) you like them but b) you would like them to be not so loud so [...]

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March is Home Month on Absolute Michigan

March 3, 2008 – 9:03 am

Homes along East Ferry Avenue – Detroit MI by pinehurst19475 For the month of March, Absolute Michigan will be featuring Homes with stories about historic Michigan houses, home & home design blogs, green building and other new trends in construction and redevelopment, and some of the great neighborhoods across the state for buying and renting. [...]

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Home is where…

February 28, 2008 – 7:51 am

well red by suesue2 For the whole month of March, we’ll be featuring Homes on Absolute Michigan with features about historic Michigan homes, green building and other new trends in construction and some great neighborhoods across the state. Because you can’t tune in any media without hearing how terrible the housing market is, we’ll also [...]

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Five things you need to know for Tuesday, November 27, 2007

November 27, 2007 – 10:09 am

They said it: Dana Johnson, chief economist for used-to-be-Detroit-based Comerica Bank in forecasting modest 1-2% growth for Michigan’s economy in 2008. We’ll finally have the sense, after four years of a downturn, we’re on a rise again. Roy Williams, on the I don’t want it, you take it NFC playoff race: Yeah, we’re in this [...]

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Blogs We Dig: Our Michigan

August 20, 2007 – 7:41 am

For Sale by John Baird Celeste Whiting’s Our Michigan is a blog that takes a probing look at hard to comprehend mega-issues like the global financial upheaval, simplifies them, and then explores how they relate to life right here in Michigan. Celeste takes that same skill of simplification and applies it to Michigan’s political blogosphere. [...]

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House Dems propose real estate package

March 13, 2007 – 9:09 am

Yellow House by anikarenina The Detroit News reports (Buying a home? Tax freeze may be on way) that Michigan’s House Democrats have proposed a package of bills calling for a state-backed second mortgage to provide six months of foreclosure protection to people who have lost their jobs and also for an 18-month moratorium on increases [...]

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Vol I, No. 1: Introduce Your Michigan Business or Organization!

January 25, 2007 – 9:16 pm

This is a page where we asked folks to say hello. Lots of them did! The current version of Introduce Your Michigan Business or Organization is right there. Share this:

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Michigan Second Mortgages Increasing Faster than Home Values

October 3, 2006 – 11:15 am

Looking up by Geoffrey George also see Looking Up (set) The Detroit Free Press reports that census data shows that 556,000 Michigan homes (19% of all owner-occupied homes in the state – 2% over the national average) have some kind of second loan on them. At the same time, the median value of homes has [...]

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