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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UlG4s9Mg8og/T8ZBcz5G5bI/AAAAAAAADd8/WV6gyxOdvfY/s1600/apartment+loan+rates+may+30+2012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="467" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UlG4s9Mg8og/T8ZBcz5G5bI/AAAAAAAADd8/WV6gyxOdvfY/s640/apartment+loan+rates+may+30+2012.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;As rumors of LEFTIST gaining popularity in Greece over REVOLT OVER AUSTERITY&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;everyone buys US currency and stashes it in their pillow. THE normal suspects go&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;down&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;as&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: lime;"&gt;dollar gains&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;in value&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;oil, interest rates and stocks go down&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;on&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: #e69138;"&gt;fright to safety moves&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Stocks fell sharply Wednesday as worries about Europe's debt, specifically the Spanish banking system,again shook confidence.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Investors flooded into&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/data/bonds/?iid=EL" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #004276; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;U.S. Treasuries&lt;/a&gt;, raising prices and pushing the yield on the benchmark 10-year note down to a&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/30/investing/treasuries/index.htm?iid=EL" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #004276; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;record low&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;of 1.656%.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;The Dow Jones industrial average (&lt;span class="inlink_chart" style="background-image: url(http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/.element/img/5.0/buttons/assorted_icons.gif); background-position: -200px -160px; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px 19px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;a class="inlink" href="http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/dow/?source=story_quote_link" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #004276; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;INDU&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) was down 150 points, or 1.2%, in early trading. The S&amp;amp;amp;P 500 (&lt;span class="inlink_chart" style="background-image: url(http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/.element/img/5.0/buttons/assorted_icons.gif); background-position: -200px -160px; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px 19px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;a class="inlink" href="http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/sandp/?source=story_quote_link" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #004276; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;SPX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) sank 17 points, or 1.2%, and the Nasdaq (&lt;span class="inlink_chart" style="background-image: url(http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/.element/img/5.0/buttons/assorted_icons.gif); background-position: -200px -160px; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px 19px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;a class="inlink" href="http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/nasdaq/?source=story_quote_link" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #004276; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;COMP&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) declined 38 points, or 1.3%.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;The European Central Bank issued a statement Wednesday saying it had not been consulted on the bailout for Bankia, the No. 4 bank in Spain, and that such a recapitalization could not be provided by the Eurosystem.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;In addition, independent ratings agency Egan-Jones downgraded Spain's sovereign debt late Tuesday. The move raised more questions about the country's ability to fund&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/25/investing/spain-banks/index.htm?iid=EL" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #004276; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;bank bailouts&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;that could reach as much as €100 billion.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Yields on 10-year Spanish debt soared to 6.62% Wednesday.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;In addition, the European Commission's economic sentiment index fell for the second month in a row, hitting the lowest level since October 2009.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/?iid=EL" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #004276; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;World markets&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;were sharply lower on European concerns. Britain's FTSE 100 (&lt;span class="inlink_chart" style="background-image: url(http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/.element/img/5.0/buttons/assorted_icons.gif); background-position: -200px -160px; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px 19px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;a class="inlink" href="http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/ftse100/?source=story_quote_link" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #004276; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;UKX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) dropped 1.6% in afternoon trading, the DAX (&lt;span class="inlink_chart" style="background-image: url(http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/.element/img/5.0/buttons/assorted_icons.gif); background-position: -200px -160px; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px 19px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;a class="inlink" href="http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/dax/?source=story_quote_link" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #004276; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;DAX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) in Germany lost 1.3% and France's CAC 40 (&lt;span class="inlink_chart" style="background-image: url(http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/.element/img/5.0/buttons/assorted_icons.gif); background-position: -200px -160px; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px 19px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;a class="inlink" href="http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/cac40/?source=story_quote_link" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #004276; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;CAC40&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) plunged 1.7%.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;CNNMoney's&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/data/fear-and-greed/?iid=EL" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #004276; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Fear &amp;amp;amp; Greed Index&lt;/a&gt;, which measures investor sentiment, remains firmly in "extreme fear" territory.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/29/investing/stocks-markets/index.htm?iid=EL" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #004276; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;U.S. stocks&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;ended higher Tuesday, as investors welcomed a lack of negative headlines out of Europe and hopes that China would announce a new massive stimulus program&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://highlandparkilsidingwindows.blogspot.com/2012/05/record-low-apartment-loan.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Scott Kendall)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UlG4s9Mg8og/T8ZBcz5G5bI/AAAAAAAADd8/WV6gyxOdvfY/s72-c/apartment+loan+rates+may+30+2012.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871420833167769518.post-2578325228124533796</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 15:29:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-24T08:29:48.440-07:00</atom:updated><title>commercial property, prices recovered to mid-2003 Levels CoStar 2012 News APARTMENT LOAN RATES LINK</title><description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ap3HfXzExHJ3dEZYVmc5MHRzaXRXSThDazNoV1FiSUE" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /&gt;APARTMENT LOAN RATES LINK&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.costar.com/News/Article/CRE-Price-Recovery-Continues-Despite-Seasonal-Volatility/138593" target="_blank"&gt;Despite a generally flat March for pricing of commercial property, prices recovered to mid-2003&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;levels in the first quarter as improving fundamentals and liquidity causing a broadening of the recovery into non-core&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.showcase.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #3366cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;commercial real estate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;and secondary markets, according to&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.costar.com/ccrsi/index.aspx" style="background-color: white; color: #3366cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;this month's CoStar Commercial Repeat Sale Indices (CCRSI) report.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;At this rate it will be 2006 in ten short years. Oprah sells her Chicago condo for about 1/2 of what she paid. say $3,000,000 on $6,000,000 cost plus extra shoe closets.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description><link>http://highlandparkilsidingwindows.blogspot.com/2012/05/commercial-property-prices-recovered-to.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Scott Kendall)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871420833167769518.post-663877327134188226</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 16:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-23T09:46:52.976-07:00</atom:updated><title>Apartment Loan rates FHA FNMA Small Loans - Assisted Living Healthcare</title><description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;FHA FNMA DUS&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-m9QozrKvwvg/T70J1pdnQzI/AAAAAAAADbI/8dM4jV8dTDU/s1600/apartment+loan+rates+may+23+2012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="346" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-m9QozrKvwvg/T70J1pdnQzI/AAAAAAAADbI/8dM4jV8dTDU/s640/apartment+loan+rates+may+23+2012.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ap3HfXzExHJ3dEZYVmc5MHRzaXRXSThDazNoV1FiSUE" target="_blank"&gt;Apartment Loan rates FHA FNMA Small Loans - Assisted Living Healthcare&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description><link>http://highlandparkilsidingwindows.blogspot.com/2012/05/apartment-loan-rates-fha-fnma-small.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Scott Kendall)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-m9QozrKvwvg/T70J1pdnQzI/AAAAAAAADbI/8dM4jV8dTDU/s72-c/apartment+loan+rates+may+23+2012.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871420833167769518.post-2797793297497068063</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 16:24:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-19T09:24:22.244-07:00</atom:updated><title>Apartment Lender Apartment Loan Pricing  historically lows</title><description>&lt;a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ap3HfXzExHJ3dEZYVmc5MHRzaXRXSThDazNoV1FiSUE" target="_blank"&gt;Apartment Lender Apartment Loan Pricing -&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://highlandparkilsidingwindows.blogspot.com/2012/05/apartment-lender-apartment-loan-pricing.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Scott Kendall)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871420833167769518.post-5657084683830438359</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-15T08:31:15.366-07:00</atom:updated><title>Apartment Loan rates and This Is Clearly Going To Cost JPMorgan Much More Than $2 Billion</title><description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ap3HfXzExHJ3dEZYVmc5MHRzaXRXSThDazNoV1FiSUE" target="_blank"&gt;APARTMENT LOAN RATES&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; text-align: left;"&gt;Whale &amp;nbsp;Ahoy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WHspGdO8-XE/T7JmIlWhVyI/AAAAAAAADYY/m6ETVtfxpY4/s1600/JP+MORGAN+WHALE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="192" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WHspGdO8-XE/T7JmIlWhVyI/AAAAAAAADYY/m6ETVtfxpY4/s320/JP+MORGAN+WHALE.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; text-align: left;"&gt;JPMorgan announced a $2 billion loss Friday. W&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; text-align: left;"&gt;hen compared to i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; text-align: left;"&gt;ts market cap and other indicators, that goes&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; text-align: left;"&gt;Ouch!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; text-align: left;"&gt;, but not much more. However, there’s more going on. The bank has refused to state where in its operations the loss was incurred. For good reason perhaps: the positions that caused the loss are still rumored to be open.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;The main problem JPMorgan may be facing, and the 8% loss in pre-market trading may be a sign players are on to this, is that we probably already know where the loss is. A few weeks ago, the financial sphere was full of stories about the London Whale, a JPM trader in London named Bruno Michel Iksil, who had taken such massive - synthetic - derivative (gambling) positions in a 125 company index that they were moving the market itself.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;Back then, some hedge funds took counter positions just for the sheer fact that he had bet so much; they figured he couldn't last forever on all trades. The underlying notion was he was long a bunch of companies; well, not a lot has gone well in the markets lately. And if you have overweight derivative positions in one direction (in this case credit default swaps) , you can make a killing or you can get punished fast and furious. He did the latter.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read more:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://theautomaticearth.org/Finance/jpmorgan-a-tale-of-whales-and-sharks.html#ixzz1uwnfvREt" style="color: #003399; text-decoration: none;"&gt;http://theautomaticearth.org/Finance/jpmorgan-a-tale-of-whales-and-sharks.html#ixzz1uwnfvREt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description><link>http://highlandparkilsidingwindows.blogspot.com/2012/05/apartment-loan-rates-and-this-is.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Scott Kendall)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WHspGdO8-XE/T7JmIlWhVyI/AAAAAAAADYY/m6ETVtfxpY4/s72-c/JP+MORGAN+WHALE.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871420833167769518.post-3464936558978407049</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-04-17T06:45:11.153-07:00</atom:updated><title>: #GOP #RNC #MITT #ROMNEY PROMISE TO CLOSE FHA HUD APARTMENT HOSPITAL SENIOR HOUSING FINANCES for INVESTMENT BANKER FRIENDS</title><description>&lt;a href="http://evanstonfinancial.blogspot.com/2012/04/gop-rnc-mitt-romney-promise-to-close.html"&gt;APARTMENT LENDER FNMA DUS LARGE APARTMENT LOAN - FNMA Small Apartment - FHA 223F: #GOP #RNC #MITT #ROMNEY PROMISE TO CLOSE FHA HUD APARTMENT HOSPITAL SENIOR HOUSING FINANCES for INVESTMENT BANKER FRIENDS&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://highlandparkilsidingwindows.blogspot.com/2012/04/gop-rnc-mitt-romney-promise-to-close.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Scott Kendall)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871420833167769518.post-369859408141607475</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-04-16T09:38:36.718-07:00</atom:updated><title>Apartment Loans Nationally $2,000,000 and up Small Apartment loans  Chicago FNMA FHA and Community Banks</title><description>&lt;br /&gt;Apartment Loans Nationally $2,000,000 and up&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1026090946"&gt;Small Apartment loans&amp;nbsp; Chicago&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.kendallrealtyadvisors.com/commercialmortgages.html" target="_blank"&gt;FNMA FHA and Community Banks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.kendallrealtyadvisors.com/rates.html"&gt;RATES&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description><link>http://highlandparkilsidingwindows.blogspot.com/2012/04/apartment-loans-nationally-2000000-and.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Scott Kendall)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871420833167769518.post-3150371255424861628</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:16:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-04-12T06:16:46.089-07:00</atom:updated><title>Bank Annual Reports: Treasure Maps to $700 Million in Distressed CRE Assets - CoStar Group</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.costar.com/News/Article/Bank-Annual-Reports-Treasure-Maps-to-$700-Million-in-Distressed-CRE-Assets/137467#.T4bVtXosBfo.blogger"&gt;Bank Annual Reports: Treasure Maps to $700 Million in Distressed CRE Assets - CoStar Group&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://highlandparkilsidingwindows.blogspot.com/2012/04/bank-annual-reports-treasure-maps-to.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Scott Kendall)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871420833167769518.post-7592528165237545251</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-04-11T05:57:00.383-07:00</atom:updated><title>LOAN RATES APARTMENT FHA 232 Apartment loan rates FHA FNMA large and Small Apartment loan</title><description>&lt;a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ap3HfXzExHJ3dEZYVmc5MHRzaXRXSThDazNoV1FiSUE"&gt;LOAN RATES&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://highlandparkilsidingwindows.blogspot.com/2012/04/loan-rates-apartment-fha-232-apartment.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Scott Kendall)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871420833167769518.post-5139329694719041199</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:40:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-04-02T10:40:56.115-07:00</atom:updated><title>Apartment Loan Rates 4-2-12</title><description>&lt;a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Ap3HfXzExHJ3dEZYVmc5MHRzaXRXSThDazNoV1FiSUE&amp;amp;output=html"&gt;Apartment Loan Rates 4-2-12&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://highlandparkilsidingwindows.blogspot.com/2012/04/apartment-loan-rates-4-2-12.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Scott Kendall)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871420833167769518.post-3798567098850281469</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-07T06:33:05.048-08:00</atom:updated><title>Composite Windows The Best Value Strength Insulation Call for free Pricing</title><description>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 25px;"&gt;Scott Kendall (847) 903-7578&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apartment  and Home&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;#Windows&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;#Siding Doors Insulation Repair Beautification - Apartment Lender: #Chicago Apartment #Siding #Sale Homes Apartments ...: &amp;nbsp;Sale   SIDING WINDOWS DOORS INSULATION ROOFS ORDER NOW AND SAVE ..&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://highlandparkilsidingwindows.blogspot.com/2012/01/apartment-and-home-siding-1-windows-1.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Scott Kendall)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871420833167769518.post-5573464980429583924</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-12T17:20:32.949-08:00</atom:updated><title>#highlandPark #siding #windows #doors #roof #insulation #installation Sale</title><description>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: large;"&gt;January Only Biggest Sale of Year &amp;nbsp;Retail Siding Windows Doors Roofs Home Condo Apartment Call Scott&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://highlandparkilsidingwindows.blogspot.com/2012/01/highlandpark-siding-windows-doors-roof.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (C Kendall)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871420833167769518.post-8400324446767363104</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:03:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-12T17:21:06.061-08:00</atom:updated><title>James Hardie Fiber Cement Siding Fire Test #jameshardie #HighlandPark #IL</title><description>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #1c1c1c; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 25px;"&gt;Scott Kendall (847) 903-7578&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="pageLeadIn" style="background-color: #1c1c1c; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;Fire Officials and Homeowners on Fire Prevention:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="contentModuleB" style="background-color: #1c1c1c; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;&lt;span class="copy"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h5&gt;    &lt;div class="contentModuleB" style="color: #cccccc; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="copy"&gt;&lt;span class="goog_qs-tidbit goog_qs-tidbit-0"&gt;See how James Hardie siding compares to vinyl and wood siding in this side-by-side fire test.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jameshardie.com/homeowner/fire_testimonials.shtml" style="color: #dd7700; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;WATCH FIRE VIDEO&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;information&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="copy"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jameshardie.com/video/fire-test/" style="color: #dd7700; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;VIDEO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="contentModuleB" style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;&lt;span class="copy"&gt;Angora Fire, El Dorado County (Lake Tahoe area)&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="copy"&gt;&lt;img align="right" alt="Lake Tahoe fire" src="http://www.jameshardie.com/images/art/fire/lake_tahoe01.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;"Three years ago I installed HardiePlank siding on my cabin in Tahoe. My cabin happened to be in the center of the hottest part of the fire but it survived. All 22 houses and cabins on the West side of my street were totally destroyed along with all cabins on the streets above and below me. The cabin next door burned completely. The firefighters said because the fire was so hot, if the Hardie siding had not been there I would not have a cabin." —&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Homeowner&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;img align="right" alt="Lake Tahoe fire" src="http://www.jameshardie.com/images/art/fire/lake_tahoe02.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;"I want to thank your company for producing a truly fine product which saved our house from destruction. We were located in the worst part on the Angora Fire, all of the surrounding homes burned to the ground and my house is the only one standing on the block. We installed your cement siding about five years ago and it was the best investment we ever made. Thank you again." —&lt;i&gt;Homeowner, South Lake Tahoe&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h5 style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;    &lt;span class="copy"&gt;San Diego&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;&lt;span class="copy"&gt;&lt;img align="right" alt="San Diego Fire" src="http://www.jameshardie.com/images/streetscapes_vol05_video2.gif" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;San Diego County fire official on requiring James Hardie siding to protect against future fires:&lt;br /&gt;"One well prepared house with hardieplank and boxed eaves that survived, and houses on either side that didn't. That tells you something about your product. I'm surprised anything survived this inferno. We're going to be requiring fire-resistant construction, will be listing James Hardie siding." —&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Kevin Dubler, Julian Fire Chief.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"My house is the only one left standing. Two with Hardie that had fire all around them and they're still here." —&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Homeowner&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Biggest fire in California's history and it's still standing, so it couldn't have been too bad a choice." —&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Homeowner&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="copy" style="color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jameshardie.com/video/fire-test/" style="color: #771100; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;FIRE VIDEO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;&lt;span class="copy"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h5 style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;    &lt;span class="copy"&gt;Laguna Beach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;&lt;span class="copy"&gt;After 1993, Laguna Beach fire destroying close to 350 homes, Orange County, California building codes were upgraded requiring tile roofs and noncombustible or fire-resistant siding on all new homes in high fire-risk zones.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;&lt;span class="copy"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h5 style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;    &lt;span class="copy"&gt;Atlanta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;&lt;span class="copy"&gt;Atlanta fire officials on importance of non-combustible exteriors in high density neighborhoods:&lt;br /&gt;"Outside, all (vinyl) siding was melted, and parts of the wood had caught on fire." —&lt;i&gt;Douglas County, GA homeowner&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Should we be utilizing vinyl siding in areas that have high density residences? – I suspect not." —&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Forsyth County Fire Chief&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It's not so much the distance between the homes that's the concern, it's the building materials. Recommendations include looking at non-combustible exterior siding." —&lt;i&gt;Marietta Fire Chief, who also chairs the committee for International Association of Fire Chiefs that develops fire codes.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Vinyl siding had no resistance. I like the cluster home concept, but if you're going to have houses close together, they should be brick or HardiePlank, a better fire resistant material." —&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Douglas County homeowner&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;&lt;span class="copy"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h5 style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;    &lt;span class="copy"&gt;Portland&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;&lt;span class="copy"&gt;Portland contractor credits Hardie siding for preventing fire spread in apartment complex, finding unscathed HardiePlank under melted plastic, burned. "For my own home, that's the product I'd have."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Firemen say unfinished buildings with HardiePlank not yet installed went up like matchsticks. Those that were finished, didn't burn.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;&lt;span class="copy"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h5 style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;    &lt;span class="copy"&gt;Minneapolis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;&lt;span class="copy"&gt;&lt;img align="right" alt="Minneapolis fire" src="http://www.jameshardie.com/images/art/fire/minneapolis.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;"We feel that the fiber-cement siding is probably what saved the structure," —&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Deputy Chief, St. Paul, MN Fire Department&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Radiant heat generated from one fire will often damage or set ablaze combustible material nearby . Typically, if the fire is putting off quite a bit of radiant heat, you'll start to see a melting effect. And from that point, if there is some flame contact, the vinyl siding may actually catch fire." —&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Public information officer, DeKalb County, GA Fire and Rescue Services&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jameshardie.com/homeowner/fire_testimonials01.shtml" style="color: #dd7700; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Read More" class="button" src="http://www.jameshardie.com/homeowner/images/buttons/readMore.gif" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; position: relative;" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;&lt;span class="copy"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h5 style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;    &lt;span class="copy"&gt;Flagstaff&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;&lt;span class="copy"&gt;Colorado State Forest Service, list of recommended products excludes vinyl siding.&lt;br /&gt;Flagstaff, Arizona Fire department prepared a simulated wall for testing combustibility of five decking materials. Fiber-cement siding was selected as the siding for the exterior wall. Three composite decking products fared poorly in the test and caught fire. But the fiber-cement sided walls to which the decking materials were attached suffered only minor singeing and discoloration. "That's not from being in proximity to the fire, that's from direct flame impingement." The fiber-cement siding did not allow the passage of fire, and it did not break apart and fall away. —&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Jim Wheeler, assistant fire chief, Flagstaff, Arizona Fire Department&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;&lt;span class="copy"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h5 style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;    &lt;span class="copy"&gt;Raleigh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;&lt;span class="copy"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Building Code Change Effective April 5, 2007.&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;The Building Code Council made an emergency code change, effective April 5, 2007, that impacts townhouse construction. Vinyl, wood and aluminum soffits are no longer permitted in North Carolina. Soffits must be noncombustible or constructed to at least one (1) hour fire resistive construction. Vented noncombustible soffit is permitted. Permit applications received after April 5, 2007, are required to meet these new standards. Contractors should contact their building inspector to determine individual building requirements during this transition.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h5 style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;    &lt;span class="copy"&gt;Outer Banks/Southern Virginia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cccccc;"&gt;&lt;span class="copy"&gt;&lt;img align="right" alt="Southern Virginia" src="http://www.jameshardie.com/images/art/fire/virginia.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;The owner of this Outer Banks home claims th&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://highlandparkilsidingwindows.blogspot.com/2012/01/james-hardie-fiber-cement-siding-fire.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Scott)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item></channel></rss>