investment

Why South Park property values rise

In today’s Dayton Daily news, the front page story talks about the tanking property values in Montgomery County- and then gushes over South Park- a “gainer” among the rest of the failing county. To begin with, you have to realize that when your property is already way undervalued due to the failures of our local Read More

A “mugging” hits too close to home

I moved to a South Park in 1986 that was very different from the South Park I live in today. Then, about 70% of the neighborhood was rentals- much of it owned by people who lived outside of the neighborhood. Now that number is reversed- about 70% of the neighborhood is owned by residents. Thursday Read More

There will be no last stand for Dayton: transactions before common sense

Reading today’s Dayton Daily News, where the obvious gets reported years late, I realized that resistance is futile, we may as well throw in the towel and give up. More than four decades after racial discrimination in home lending was outlawed, lenders in the Dayton area deny a much higher percentage of loans to blacks Read More