Over $300 million of inventory now available in some of the finest communities in North Georgia mountains. 20% down payment in barter. (more…)

There are now 4 million homeowners at least one month behind in their payments. Anyone thinking there is a simple, fast cure for the situation we’re in is an extreme optimist! Here are five reasons why foreclosures will be so hard to (more…)

Florida Barter has scores of timeshares available at a low cost and on a barter (more…)

Former Federal Chairman Alan Greenspan says falling home prices are “nowhere near the bottom” despite the single largest year-over-year drop in U.S. home prices–May’s record (more…)

You probably know that you can exclude up to $250,000 of gain ($500,000 for most joint filers) when you sell your principal residence. IRS regulations may now allow you to apply this gain exclusion when you sell vacant land that is (more…)

Football great (ex quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys) has sold his real estate firm with an intent of being part of the top real estate firm in the world within the next five (more…)

Listen to the mainstream media and you’d think the real estate decline in the U.S. (where it’s expected to see the percentage of drops in value will equal to the 1929 depression) was due to the subprime mortgages being extended to less than qualified buyers.

“Hold on,” says the World Wealth Report, released this past week by Merrill Lynch and Capgemini. According to their study, (more…)

Here’s an inside look at the realities of the home-building business in today’s (more…)

It is no secret that the credit crisis has caused substantial economic loss and the list of casualties includes some of the nation’s largest lenders.

“But the worst is yet to come,” said Talcott J. Franklin, a Patton Boggs partner, who recently co-authored a new book, the Mortgage & Asset Backed Securities Litigation Handbook, on the legal implications of the credit crisis. “Subprime borrowers, as the weakest link, were the first to fall. Many more American families and businesses live beyond their means on credit. The bills are coming due, and someone has to pay them.”

The lionshare of the debt was (more…)

The growth and use of commercial barter companies has grown and expanded to include some thirty-five nations around the globe. Every year another four or five will see the introduction of commercial trade exchanges.

It wasn’t but a little over a decade ago that an exchange in Turkey was formed. They have done some remarkable business over the years, and now their innovative thinking has taken another major leap (more…)