HUD TAKES ACTION TO SPEED RESALE OF FORECLOSED PROPERTIES TO NEW OWNERS Measure to help bring stability to home values and accelerate sale of vacant properties Good news for real estate investors and buyers in the Portland market. FHA is now temporarily lifting the ban on funding resales within 90 days of purchase. This means buyers can now purchase properties that have changed hands in the last 90 days- whether from foreclosure or purchased by a real estate investor. read below for details: WASHINGTON - In an effort to stabilize home values and improve conditions in communities where for…

Yesterday was supposed to be a day that I follow a special yearly tradition. It was the first day that Burning Man tickets go on sale. Every year on the first day they are on sale, I hunker down in front of my computer with a few hours worth of food, and whatever work I need to get done, and attempt to be among the first people to order their burning man tickets. It usually a frustratingly long process, that you have to be glued to your computer for, or risk the website being over loaded, and being kicked back to the end of the line. After hearing about and seeing pictures of the massive ea…

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Village Building Converge (VBC) 10 is coming. VBC is a 10 day event with workshops and speakers on community and natural building. Participants and volunteers will be working on projects all over the city, creating public gathering spaces. These 'intersection repair' projects are sprinkled all over the city. At first, they were most concentrated in the inner SE Portland neighborhoods- Sellwood, Belmont, Hawthorne, Buckman, etc...But over the years that have started popping up East of Mt. Tabor, in NE Portland- Alberta (King neighborhood), St Johns, and even on the westside of town. V…