Treasury Department Touts Expanded Tax Credit for First-Time Homebuyers

Not sure the details but Treasury is offering a credit offer up to $8,000 to qualifying taxpayers

Commercial/Multifamily Mortgage Originations Plunge 80% from Fourth Quarter ...

A report from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) shows a 80% drop from the same period in 2007

Housing starts fall to record lows (How many times have you seen this headline?)

They fell 16.8 percent from December to a seasonally adjusted annual rate per Housing starts fall to record lows  from Today's Real Estate News

Picking up a Dell Mini

So, to help the pain giving up my BlackBerry I put in a order for a Dell Mini 9.  I'm grabbing the XP version so I wouldn't have the Linux learning curve.  I don't get it till March but as soon as I do I'm post pics and my .02 cents...

Update: Called and added build in webcam and it moved the ship date from 2/26 to 3/9 - wish they would have told me that on the phone