About the Author(s): September 2011 Archives

Family reasons are causing me to move out of San Diego. I won't have internet access after I publish this until at least sometime Friday evening, and for some reason my software is not publishing things I schedule ahead of time. I could take my laptop to Starbucks at the appropriate time, but it works out that I've got sole adult charge of the originating end of the move, which includes 2 kids and a dog who is terrified of car rides despite the fact she gets more rides to the park than to the vet (and the ratio would be more lopsidedly park if it wasn't such a chore to deal with giving her a car ride). Let's be real: I'm not leaving them alone to go to Starbucks.

I never thought I'd leave San Diego, but circumstances force the move as the least bad solution. I'm a very private person by nature, but I owe readers at least a note as to what is going on. Those of you who may be close personal friends and were entitled to a more full picture, please respect my family's wishes to keep what has been shared private between us. I am not certain of what my professional future holds at this point. Due to moving away from my client base and the nature of the current economy, it's likely I'm going to have to take a job - as in working for someone else - at least for a while (if I can find one with the employment situation as bad as it is). If I'm not working real estate full time, it strikes me as likely that ignorance of changed conditions will leave me less able to write correctly about real estate or loans and less able to update past articles correctly.

At the very least, past articles will stay up for a while, but how long is unknown. Site revenue took a sudden dive a few months ago when Google decided to start paying a fraction of its previous rate for ads. Where revenue used to be well above costs to keep this up, that situation has now reversed. There's a bit of a pot built up (a couple hundred dollars - about a year at current burn rate), but we shall see what the future holds.