Al Block serving Metro Detroit for 3 decades.

  HAFA stands for Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives Program, but don't let the nice name fool you.   Proof is in the results, so time will tell.  Read on. Quickly, I will give some perspective on one of many reasons why the current real estate market has become devalued and unstable. However, if you spent a week in ...

Al Block, a 20 year veteran of the Metro Detroit real estate industry will serve on the Board of Directors of the largest local Association of Realtors in the State of Michigan.  He served a term as Director of the Macomb County Board of Realtors from 1997-2001 and then served later as Vice-President of a newly merged organizition ...

I told my wife a while back that if General Motors ever leaves Detroit or if Toyota buys GM, that is the day we pack our bags and move.  I sure hope this is not a sign because for almost 20 years I have built up a real estate and appraisal business.  The "powers that be" better figure it out quick before its too ...

Are you responsible for the death of these two men?  Their names are John and Horace Dodge.  They are brothers.  They have been deceased for quite some time, however, their spirit, an American institution lives on or does it?  Last week their baby, Chrysler, announced it may be going on the auction block to slice and dice, ...

 JENNIFER M. GRANHOLM GOVERNOR STATE OF MICHIGAN sdfdsfsfDEPARTMENT OF TREASURY LANSING ROBERT J. KLEINE STATE TREASURER  3961 (Rev. 4-06) Taxation of Services under the Two - Penny Plan Governor Granholm has proposed a two percent tax on certain services as part of her comprehensive budget and economic plan for the 2007 and 2008 fiscal ...

Just days after her Michigan "State of the State" address to the Michigan Legislature, a proposal to tax services by 2% is gaining momentum.  We are already allowing foreign competition ruin our Detroit/Michigan manufacturing business, so the proposal to fix the State's budget problem . . . tax the service industry.  Our ...