Bob's Blog

My March 10 post made the audacious claim that the housing freefall was over. How could I have such wisdom??? Actually, MLS has been showing an improvement in many statistics for several months (higher prices, less inventory, more offers, quicker sales.) Its important to take what you read with a grain of salt. Now n

take a look at this article from my MSN.com homepage from OFFHEO (The Office of Federal Housing and Enterprise) concerning home prices from January.

January 2009 home prices

The Case Shiller report for the same period will be released next Tuesday and should also show a turn around!

Hey – does everybody know about the Colorado Golf Passport? Geez, if you like to smack the little white ball around, this is the way to go. Buy a passport for $79.95 and get discounted golf all over Colorado including several top courses. Seriously, this is $5000 in discounts at over 50 Colorado links. You even get $0 worth of golfballs. Why would you not do this?

You can thank me at the 19th hole

Apparently not as much as there used to be….

As my blog grows and prospers over time, I actually intend to devote a good amount of it to good health. I strongly believe that Americans, who are busy and oversatureated with TMI while not having enough quality time to devote to themselves and their wellbeing have very little clue of the real (and really small) level of nutrition they are taking into their bodies compared to our grandparents or earlier. (BTW, want a really glaring example? Walk the “food” aisles of your local Costco and start taking notes of how much simple starch and sugar you are walking by. I swear it must reach 75% of what is on the shelves! Now look for some complex carbs or even better, some protein. And we wonder where obesity starts?

And here’s the double whammy: Accept the fact that we’re over-carbed, it’s pretty easy to see. What’s not so easy to see is that even the good foods we eat are a shadow of what they used to be. Through years of commercial farming and widescale pesticide spraying, our crops have become seriously altered. Do you remember when a tomato actually tasted like a tomato and not like chewy cellophane?

So, enter Dr. Mercola to the rescue. I had the privelege of being a patient at Dr. Mercola’s practice when I lived in Chicago. Since I moved to Colorado, I believe his website has grown to become one of the five biggest health and wellness sites on the web. You will be well served to go there and add it to your favorites. We all need to be armed with the right information these days!

What’s in your vegetables these days?

Just this morning our Keller Williams office leadership team held our monthly meeting. It was suggested that we “bang the gavel” and declare, “It is over!”. It being the housing slump in the Denver market. Why is it over? Cuz we said so!

Logging on to my MSN homepage tonight to check the news I smiled a bit when I came across this headline:

Have  home prices finally bottomed out?

Is it really over? I say it is? What about you? Please comment….

It’s that time of year again where we spring forward. Yeah! So don’t forget to move those clocks forward one hour before you go to bed tonight. Just in case you wanted to be an expert on the facts behind DST, here’s an interesting article from Infoplease. (Yawn!) I’m tired, goodnight!

Why do we observe Daylight Savings Time (DST)?

Alright, this post is just for your viewing pleasure, if you want to call it that. Here is a video recreation of the January water landing in the Hudson by USAirways flight 1549. This is done in real time in synch with the actual aircraft to controller transmissions. It was over in a hurry. Thank God everyone walked away. Kudos to Captain Sullenberger, the entire flightcrew, Air Traffic Control and all the first responders. Flawless!

Flight 1549 ditching video