Boise, Idaho Blog

This years real estate crisis has opened the door to a unique opportunity when it comes to buying real estate. Individuals and families are able to find quality affordable homes in more neighborhoods than before. Millions of foreclosures have entered the market and the last thing banks want on their balance sheets are real estate.
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Every now and again you come across a story about people doing stupid things.  Well recently we had a lady dump her soda pop on the counter at the VA Hospital because they charged her over $3 for it.  Aparently she had been coming in for a very long time, bringing her father in, and [...]

How will it affect consumers?
The federal government – in response to the lending crisis and numerous cases of mortgage fraud perpetrated against consumers in recent years – has just announced a significant overhaul of mortgage industry regulations.
New Mortgage Regulation is this months issue of In My Opinion - Real Estate News at BoiseRealEstateInfo.net. Read more [...]

Came across an interesting story today… Aparently the US Courts have stepped in and forbid a Kansas meatpacker from testing ALL their cattle for the mad cow disease. Can they do that?
Reason being is that larger meat packers worry that this will give them an advantage by allowing them to advertise their beef [...]

Recently Newsweek canducted a poll of the nations best high schools.  Many of Boise’s high schools did very well this year.  In the past, Boise High and Timberline have ranked well.  This year Borah is added to the list of top high schools in the nation.
The poll ranked the top 1,300 schools in the nationally [...]

Minding my own business publishing my next edition of In My Opinion, which happens to be Home Maintenance Tips for Late Summer, I find myself in the middle of what appears to be an awesome amount of smoke.  What is going on you might ask…  Well it appears that there is a significant brush fire [...]

I tend to try and stay out of controversy as much as I can, life is interesting enough without adding more, but every now and then I come across something that really gets to me. This time it has to do with the California courts taking on gay medical rights. We are not [...]

For many in the real estate community it is disheartening to witness the high rate of foreclosures. Boise is not excluded from this crisis. In the neighborhood where I live I have seen homes for sale by banks and short sales, something that I have not noticed before. Other national news has Boise listed as [...]

Today I was reading in the Idaho Statesman, something I rarely do, I was fascinated by the story about the Boise valley losing their bone marrow registry because to many white people were registering. Here is a program that has helped over a 100 people and it is being shut down, moved, because not [...]

“In My Opinion” at BoiseRealEstateInfo.net has just released its new bi-monthly article: 2008: A Perfect Storm of Economic Catastrophes for the USA
T. Boone Pickens is a seasoned investor and market observer– and one of the nation’s most legendary oil industry tycoons. His name is synonymous with the oil business. But in July of 2008 he [...]