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As we ring in the new year, the AssetPlan Team wishes you prosperity, optimism, and good cheer for the things to come in 2012!

Just released numbers indicate a steady increase in HAFA transactions as we move into the fourth quarter. One in 10 borrowers remain in some state of delinquency…as they have for much of 2011.

My friend Jaspreet Sihota shared with me Khushwant Singh’s 8 Clues to Happiness. Khushwant Singh is a famously happy (and old) Sikh author and I agree with him 100%. In fact, I believe these 8 principles should underly housing and social policy in America where millions of families are obese, financially unstable (and insecure about their work prospects due to globalization), and worried that a home of their own may not be a reality for future generations.

My Utah presentation (subject of the ‘Elephant in the Python' blog) was quoted/picked up by this reporter for Origination News. Instead of just talking about this though, I am getting involved in leveraging real estate agents as the ‘enlightened self interested party' in helping us solve this housing crisis by preventing foreclosures. - Ray