Archive for August 24th, 2007

Mortgage Fraud in Central Ohio

Friday, August 24th, 2007

NewspaperIn  Central Ohio news  this week:

Columbus Distpatch - Mortgage Fraud -  Wednesday

Columbus Dispatch - Mortgage Fraud -  Thursday 

“The questionable transactions were highlighted by The Dispatch in a September 2005 series called “Brokered Dreams.”

 I blogged about it  on the Original Columbus Best Blog (now Discover Columbus back in October 2005, when Contrarian Chronicles referred to it as the Bubble Bursting in Central Ohio… the news of trouble in Central Ohio came from the ”Brokered Dreams” series of articles in the Columbus Dispatch about flipping, mortgage fraud and more.   

It’s old news.  Mostly.  It’s all in the local newspaper.

Does this blog gossip?

Friday, August 24th, 2007

My manager told me something on Thursday but he told me I couldn’t or shouldn’t  blog about it.  In fact he left me a very funny voice mail but I can’t tell you what he said in that message or what he said when we actually got to talk. 

It is a local real estate matter. 

He said something about “dirt” in his voice mail.  There is a new restaurant going in right near our office on High Street in Worthington.  He left me the message as he was leaving the office.  I thought it might be about the construction site (another agent and I talked about the site yesterday… why is it going so slow…??) I often ask my manager “the dirt” about what is happening when I see the blue signs pop up on High Street or in Old Worthington.  He always knows.  Wednesday his message was not about the dirt at the buiding site.

A Real Living song stars in a video about gossip “What Do You Think About That” (full length video) on CMT.  I wrote about the video here.  Columbus a little bit Country?

“little bit of gossip coming from loose lips”

I am not country, I am more classic Beatles… 

“Do you want to know a secret?

Do you promise not to tell?”

I hate to think that other people think I am a gossip.  I posted an entry about some local real estate gossip a little over a year ago.  I was not 100%  comfortable doing so.  I thought about running it by my manager (same fella who called me about dirt on Wednesday)  before posting it but I never had before so I figured why start now… no one was reading my blog, it was like yelling into a void so why not just post it… my muse.  Cartoonish behavior.

I posted Why are They Sitting in a Tree?  

In my usual convoluted manner the post is about style and about a local cyber squatting case.  It got read… not greatly but it got read.  It got no comments for a few days.  It was no secret.  It was in the Columbus Dispatch, yet it felt gossipy in comparison to what I usually write about.

On August  2006 Sellsius Blog posted The Top Ten  Women Real Estate Bloggers  of 2006    and what entry  did they mention? 

“Maureen McCabe [Columbus Best Blog] Why are They Sitting in a Tree?”

Is it gossip if it is published in the Columbus Dispatch?   

 ”Do you want to know a secret?  

Do you promise not to tell?” 

I am the kind of person that friends tell deep dark secrets to.

Or I was before I started blogging.