The Privatopia Papers

CHANNAHON — Although many who live in newer subdivisions enjoy the protections outlined in homeowners’ association covenants, residents of...

Argument provokes fatal shooting in Lapu | Sun.Star Police believe the attack on Lapaz may have stemmed from an old rift over the collection...

Obama's Consumer Watchdog Targets Mortgage, Payday Lenders - BusinessWeek Consumers may benefit from its reach whenever they take out a ...

The End Of Republican Fusionism? - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast What we're seeing, I think, is Romney as the last, dy...

2012 housing outlook: Chicago vacant condo program - chicagotribune.com Within the city of Chicago, armed with an almost 2-year-old law, tho...

Bottom Line - Subprime suicide: Notorious broker found dead A disgraced securities broker who was one of the subprime mortgage market's ...

Fred Fischer weighs in: Evan: You may share the following with anyone. The following is my response comments to the Privatopia story of...

From George Staropoli comes this response to the Pilot/Berding discussion: Finally, a debate, a firm discussion of one of my favorite issu...

Landscape Absurdism: Las Vegas - Design - The Atlantic Cities Take a look at the way some developers and cities have decided to lay out subd...

Billions needed to upgrade America’s leaky water infrastructure - The Washington Post Rapidly deteriorating roads and bridges may stifle Ame...

Typewriter repairman keeps busy in high-tech age - Houston Chronicle Anybody out there still have one of these? For many years I hung onto m...

Occupy Bank of America? - Credit Slips It explains a lot about the state of our legal system if the Romneys of the world honestly believe th...

New Class At Columbia Focuses On Occupy Wall Street « CBS New York Columbia University will offer a new course for upperclassmen and grad st...

Tyler Berding tried to comment my long post in response to the Pilot/Berding exchange, but Blogger rejected it as too long. I am posting Tyl...

COLLEGE PARK, Ga. —A longstanding dispute over a water bill in College Park could end up with the Yorktowne Condominiums shutdown and ever...

I am getting numerous copies of the same, or virtually the same comment that I have put up more than once already. Please stop. If you have ...

Legal Blog Watch So here you have some wag's take on the "three burning legal questions of the day."

NYC's foreclosures continue slow avalanche | Crain's New York Business The rate of foreclosures may be stabilizing in most big Ameri...

I have been thinking about an issue raised in a post by Fred Pilot recently, and responded to by Tyler Berding in a comment . I will do bot...

QCOnline : Woman sues; says condo association harassed her over 'psychiatric service dog' CHICAGO (AP) — A woman who relies on a spe...