Tim's blog

I seriously doubt this site will ever be "finished" in that there will always be some tweak or adjustment or user request that makes sense to do. Fortunately, we are still small and able to make changes quickly.

Today, I turned on the ability for a user to pick how they want almost any content they create to look. In fact, you are seeing the results of that now because I chose a different theme for my content and the look of my blog now reflects that theme choice.

There have only been two times you have seen that from me. Now, and back in late 2006.

Several trigger events have taken place that will lead to opportunities for those sitting on cash. I am not saying dump all your real estate or any other asset because the world is coming to an end. It isn't. In fact, we are about to embark on a tremendous boom opportunity for investors who are not over extended and have the resources to pounce on the opportunities about to be dumped on the markets. Yes, I said, markets.

A few weeks ago a deal to sell the REITactics site to the Tim and Jim Greene, aka the Sub2 Brothers, was announced. Then things got really weird really fast. Long and uninteresting story but lemons lead to lemonade and this site was "reborn".

Article spinners are all the rage with the affiliate marketing and link building types. It's where you write one article and then let some magic software spin it into multiple somewhat unique articles ready to let some other magical software blindly submit the article to multiple places.

Well, here is an example of what I suspect, but cannot prove is what happens when the spinners churn out gibberish...

http://www.small-businessmarketinginfo.com/realestate/flipping-real-esta...

This morning, President Obama signed the financial reform regulation into law. You might remember, Senator Chris Dodd, one of those who the bill is named in honor of, said they would not know the full extent of the law until it actually went into affect.

Well, part of it went into effect immediately.

With stroke of his pen in his left hand, Obama made rating agencies liable for the accuracy of their ratings. Sounds kind of reasonable doesn't? If you are going to issue ratings on say, bonds, you should bear some responsibility if your ratings are not all that accurate.

You are viewing the site from the new server cluster.

Yes, there really is a vision.

I want this to be a repository where you can seamlessly access content you create or subscribe to at any given time. The subscription model is via Drupal's Organic Groups and while some groups are very private and have fees to join, the majority will be free to any registered member.

Many, well some, believe the Mayan calendar predicts the end of our known world on December 20, 2012. Following this logic means our traditional calendars predict the end of our known world every December 31. Yet, coincidentally, the Mayan calendar ending in December of 2012 is only a few months off from an event that could lead to catastrophic changes in our known financial world for many years to come.

Now, you might be thinking I am talking about the upcoming Presidential election of 2012.

I'm not.

I honestly believe the economy is going to be far worse in coming years than anyone is willing to admit. The problems we see in Europe with the Euro are happening because governments were unwilling to make the hard choices to keep spending in control. We are doing the same thing here. The only difference is until President Obama took office we were doing it much more slowly.

I received an email yesterday. It was submitted via the contact page on this site. I'm not even interested in whether they used a real or fake email address and name. The whole premise of the email was it is unethical to take advantage of the coming situations caused by out of control government spending and irresponsible government debt.

Here is part of the text of the email: