In our area of Eastern PA, the real estate market appears to be holding strong. Two ouf our neighbors, just sold their houses within a week of listing and got the asking price. This shows that the market is still somewhat positive in our area. In other parts of the country, such as Arizona, you can view Scottsdale real estate to see the what houses are going for and who you can contact in the Scottsdale area to help you find and sell your house.

As you know this site is dedicated to utilization of Renewable Energy for a variety of reasons. I was pleased to find that there are companies out there who not only put together great home plans for thie purpose but have now embraced going Green. I found www.houseplansandmore.com and discovered that they are serious about making luxury and yet energy efficient homes. I appreciated their page dedicated to Green Homes and a page for their “Featured Green Home Plan.” They are serious about using the Sun and great materials to reach their goals of Green Homes. Plus, they include a very unique way of shopping for home plans by selecting your first, second and third most important feature you are looking for. Then you look at great photographs and images of the home itself. Its just amazing. When looking for a log home plan www.houseplansandmore.com offer a variety of styles that meet your time of setting be it a outdoor getaway or a large family home. If you are looking for a luxury home plan I think you will be very pleased to see the detail they put into a dream home for contemporary or traditional homes. I felt I was back in college in Washington DC with a few of their plans! Just stunning. Again, with www.houseplansandmore.com I impressed because they understand the future of going Green and take it seriously. The site is very easy to use, nothing hangs and have a multitude of links to all kinds of styles that you may be looing for!

Personal responsibility has been thrown out the window. You agreed to your loan terms, you made payments, you smiled at the idea of the great equity you would have when you sold it. Uh oh, life happens! Times are tough and you did not count on the economy. So why not just walk away from the mortgage, you’ll get bailed out. But now the government wants to become an enabler for you. Now a proposal has surfaced to allow judges to cram down mortgages or bring the principle down to a more reasonable level so you can make the payment. Oh wait, don’t forget about the neighbor who is doing ok, has planned for emergencies and would like to keep the value of his home, but you get to walk away. Or now your home is worth less and hence the rest of neighborhood comes down with you. It is a sad day where we just think of ourselves and not our literal neighbor. Your lack of planning is not my crisis should come right back at you if we want to live in a self served world. It never works that way. Then again, we went up this bubble together hence we will all fall the bubble has burst!

I am a little suprised that the value of rental property has stayed so flat and that prices for rent have not moved much either. I would seem to me that many will sell their homes, pay off their debts and move into a rental home for a little while, until things settle down a little. Perhaps everyone is bracing for a huge fall, cannot sell their homes if they even tried or they could even be taking advantage of the new interest rates on homes. I just heard about a couple getting 4.7%, now that is like giving money away! I just cannot believe that with that interest rate more people are jumping on top of this. Sure the world will never be the same but we all need homes, food and gas. Yet again, we need jobs to pay those mortgages and get approved for them in the first place.  I just read that the UK may need to go bankrupt like it did in the 1970’s by excessive spending, encouraging people to buy homes they could not afford and let the price of those homes to go up, and then do not put anything in savings for the rainy day government fund. Wow, that sounds like the typical American these days. I still believe its just a correction and not a collapse.