New Orleans Crawling deeper and deeper down the dark hole of cash and corporate home-buying practices recently, one of the big players, previously unknown to me, was Opendoor. When I looked, it seemed like less a source where a prospective buyer would be fronted the cash to make an offer on a house to increase their chances …
Category: Housing
All-Cash Companies – Too Good to be True?
New Orleans There’s a stretch near Canal Street in New Orleans where I can’t get the signal as clearly from WAMF, our low power station, which focuses primarily on the downriver and eastern part of the city. I usually switch to the local NPR outlet for the end of my drive to the gym. Yesterday, …
Searches and Real Estate Practices Advance Housing Segregation
New Orleans In some countries, like the United Kingdom, a significant part of ACORN’s work involves going toe to toe with real estate companies and their agencies, that are called “letting” agencies across the pond, as in “to let” or to rent. Like mortgage brokers in the home markets, these folks are often the behind-the-scenes facilitators and …