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Women Investing Network Podcast101: Canceled Listings & Buyer’s Remorse, The Cromford Report, Real Estate Analytics with Tina Tamboer Today Jason talks about buyer's remorse and how we can gain perspective in time as it applies to real investing, and how we can all be inspired by this song by one of the all time greats! He also hosts Tina Tamboer, senior housing analyst with The Cromford Report as they discuss housing trends, household formation and relocation, and real estate market predictions for 2022. Are we in for a housing price crash or boom? The consensus right now, according to most analysts, is to expect prices to continue rising, but not at the...2022-02-0740 min

Creating Wealth Real Estate Investing with Jason Hartman1798: Canceled Listings & Buyer’s Remorse, The Cromford Report, Real Estate AnalyticsToday Jason gives a summary on the Creating Wealth Live virtual event that took place last weekend. He also reminds all Empowered Investor Inner Circle members of their monthly meeting every first Tuesday of the month. And a bit of a public service announcement for the members of The Collective Mastermind- it is chilly in Florida, so dress accordingly! He also talks about "buyer's remorse" and how time gives us a better perspective on things. Jason also hosts Tina Tamboer, senior housing analyst with The Cromford Report to discuss housing trends, household formation and relocation, and real...2022-01-3146 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Say Enough Is EnoughHere's the latest instalment of Arthur Pendragon's modern-day saga 'The About Time Too King', in the final edition of Season Three. I hope you've enjoyed, or got something, out of these podcasts; next year the story-strands ('King', 'Forever Blowing Bubbles', 'Mithered' and the Marriott & Pat series) will appear in a somewhat different format... but I don't know what that format is yet! Keep an internet eye peeled for related news. Characters and sketches © 2020-21 Paul Cromford (me); the author (me again) hereby asserts his moral rights to ownership of same.2021-12-0216 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Fall Into AssumptionsFor the penultimate edition of Season Three, I've thrown the spotlight on the podcast's theme music, which started life as a song by some daft brush named Cromford. The song's called 'Tit For Tat' and the lyric is self-explanatory; if you hunt down the song on my website (paulcromford.com, 'Original Music and Lyrics') you can bounce a little mental blue ball along the words as they get sung. Minutes of fun!2021-11-2905 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Play The Tribute CircuitContinuing my tale of 'The About Time Too King' (Arthur Pendragon and his unlikely modern-day cohorts); in this instalment Merlin Pettifer makes a few 'phone calls... and several startling discoveries. Lend an ear to discover all. Characters and sketches © 2020-21 Paul Cromford (me); the author (me again) hereby asserts his moral rights to ownership of same.2021-11-2516 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Be Right-OnIn this edition of AFC, I cock (what is for me) an overdue snook at such ultra-liberal conceits as cancel culture, gender fluidity and the extinction rebellion shower... and yes, I refuse to dignify the latter bunch with capital initials. Aren't you tired of all the bullying, all that inflated sense of entitlement, all that hypersensitivity on behalf of unconsulted sections of society? Don't you find all of that eagerness to Take Offence At Something deeply offensive in itself? Yep, me too.2021-11-2207 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Suffer With Their EarsBeginning a continuation of my story-strand concerning Arthur Pendragon and his uphill preparations to defend 21st-century England against her deadliest-ever danger... whatever that might prove to be. To recap this story, see the following episodes in AFC Season Two: "...Pine For Chivalry" (2:10), "...Scoff At Reincarnation" (2:12) and "...Talk The Talk" (2:24). Characters and sketches © 2020-21 Paul Cromford (me); the author (me again) hereby asserts his moral rights to ownership of same.2021-11-1817 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Give Themselves AwayRingo wanted to stay with an octopus, George wanted to pay a bit less tax, John wanted his mother, and Paul... what did Paul really really want? This edition of 'Any Fool Can...' suggests our Paulie wanted to be something rather less salubrious than a writer of paperbacks. Get the lowdown here!2021-11-1506 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Get Snap-HappyAction stations! Here's one more instalment from my concept 'Forever Blowing Bubbles': this is the final part of the four-part story 'Evangeline's Echo'. Comedy is in short supply this time; revelation follows revelation, and if you haven't got a lump in your throat by the end, I will have failed! Characters and sketches © 2020-21 Paul Cromford (me); the author (me again) hereby asserts his moral rights to ownership of same. 2021-11-1112 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Dislike A SmartarseNobody likes a smartarse, apparently. That's a strange fact, isn't it? After all, those clever-clogs are only trying to raise the bar so that the rest of us can try harder... and surely no rational person would fight shy of being the best they can be? Surely? Or maybe you know differently!2021-11-0806 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Believe What They SeeMore from the sketch-strand 'Forever Blowing Bubbles': this is Part Three of the four-part story 'Evangeline's Echo'. Who was Buck Rumpley? Why is Commander Hassock behaving so strangely? Where is Talfryn's backside? And what has Phobes got in his earphones? Some of the answers are here... Characters and sketches © 2020-21 Paul Cromford (me); the author (me again) hereby asserts his moral rights to ownership of same.2021-11-0416 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Shock With WordsNothing to do with obscenity, this episode: it's about insensitivity, usually displayed by people too young or inexperienced to realise how crass they sound! The guest reader is my obliging friend Reginald Vera Petheringhamtonovichinstein.2021-11-0105 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Whip Up A MysteryA return to the sketch-strand 'Forever Blowing Bubbles', and Part Two of the story 'Evangeline's Echo'. Part One was first made public in AFC Season Two, Episode 22 (Any Fool Can... Stay Flippant). This time around, find out -- among other things -- what has accosted Talfryn, what Commander Hassock keeps in his wallet, and what Phobes does when he can't sleep. Characters and sketches © 2020-21 Paul Cromford (me); the author (me again) hereby asserts his moral rights to ownership of same.2021-10-2814 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Take Another Curtain-CallThey're grizzled & paunchy, they shuffle & shamble, their appearances cost a mortgage or two. What are they? Why, they're the dribbly old men and women of pop music, surviving since the 1960s and STILL hogging the concert limelight. This episode of AFC asks: why can't they all just buzz off once and for all? 2021-10-2507 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Start An AvalanchePresenting one more episode of the series 'Mithered' for this season: Clint and Harry are together again, united by their reciprocal dislike, and we find out where you really shouldn't linger on an English Saturday evening. Characters and sketches © 2020-21 Paul Cromford (me); the author (me again) hereby asserts his moral rights to ownership of same. 2021-10-2113 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Fall Among ThievesThe kindness of strangers is given a spotlight in this edition: specifically, two people who came to my aid when I was in serious physical difficulties. I was deeply grateful way back then, and still am. Whoever those saviours were, I hope they've had a happy and comfortable life. 2021-10-1805 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Have A Bitten BumContinuing my comedic series 'Mithered', featuring tetchy little Clint Eastworth and the enigmatic American, Harry Giggleswick. This instalment reacquaints us with the shady Mr Melchizedek, and we find out what Harry intends to do with Mrs Eastworth. The rogue! Characters and sketches © 2020-21 Paul Cromford (me); the author (me again) hereby asserts his moral rights to ownership of same.2021-10-1412 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Be Incredibly ExcitedFantastic! Amazing! Brilliant! Awesome! Are you getting thoroughly fed up of seeing these words being used to describe every mediocre thing around you? Yes, me too. I would say it's incredibly annoying, but the word 'incredibly' is also annoying because it turns up just about everywhere. This edition of AFC is a curmudgeonly grumble about the exaggeration game! 2021-10-1105 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Miss The WoodPresenting the next instalment of my comedic series 'Mithered': this is the one featuring tetchy little Clint Eastworth and the enigmatic American, Harry Giggleswick. Previously featured in the Season 2 episodes "...Covet A Croissant" (2.02), "...Run And Hide" (2.04) and "...Have Their Head Turned" (2.20), this story is now putting out shoots all over the place and even I don't have much control over it! Let's go with its flow together. Characters and sketches © 2020-21 Paul Cromford (me); the author (me again) hereby asserts his moral rights to ownership of same. 2021-10-0717 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Use TTS SoftwareIn this edition, meet my guest speaker Clara. She's efficient, obedient, and she doesn't exist... except as a voice generated by Text-To-Speech software. Are you planning to use such technology in your own endeavours? Then you ought to hear what Clara has to say. 2021-10-0405 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Look GuiltyContinuing the adventures of Pat Moore and the newly-plural Marriott Frinton, previously featured in 'AFC... Talk To Themselves' (Episode 4 of this Season). In this episode, Pat and Marriott the Elder fall foul of a police constable bringing his bolshie Black Country ways to the Scottish Western Isles. What can the other Frintons do? Characters and sketches © 2020-21 Paul Cromford (me); the author (me again) hereby asserts his moral rights to ownership of same.2021-09-3012 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Get Ralph WrongIf 'The Lark Ascending' and 'Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis' are to Ralph Vaughan Williams what 'Harvest' was to Neil Young, then the music in this edition is Vaughan Williams' 'Ragged Glory'! Or maybe I mean 'Tonight's The Night'... either way, it's Ralphie as the concertgoer seldom hears him.2021-09-2709 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Talk To ThemselvesContinuing the adventures of Marriott Frinton and Pat Moore, previously featured in 'AFC... Go So Far' (Episode 2 of this Season). Does Mr Frinton have the very best reason to talk to himself? You decide. Characters and sketches © 2020-21 Paul Cromford (me); the author (me again) hereby asserts his moral rights to ownership of same.2021-09-2318 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Julienne CeleryIt is written: "Man shall not live by bread alone"... not when there's a decent gas grill or (shudder!) an electric toaster handy. Catch this little tribute to the simplest gastronomic pleasures, and bring an appetite along!2021-09-2005 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Go So FarThis is the latest instalment in the whimsical saga of Marriott Frinton and his friend 'Patacake' Moore. You were puzzled by them in 'AFC... Be Accident Prone', You tut-tutted at them in 'AFC... Gawp At TV', You gave them an old-fashioned look in 'AFC... Unblock A Gutter'. Now thrill to their adventures in some place an awfully long way away. Characters and sketches © 2020-21 Paul Cromford (me); the author (me again) hereby asserts his moral rights to ownership of same.2021-09-1615 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Stack BagsThe opening episode of Season Three celebrates the extraordinary achievement of deep-sea diver William Walker in Winchester Cathedral, at the start of the 20th century. What did he do? He stacked bags... but oh my, the circumstances in which he did it! Intrigued? Have a listen...2021-09-1308 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Talk The TalkSeason Two (S02) concludes with this new sketch featuring Arthur Pendragon, his motley group of true believers, and a bowl of snack stuff from Grape Tree or similar. The whole story to date now spans S02 episodes 10, 12 and 24... and there's still so much more to tell! Characters and sketches © 2020-21 Paul Cromford (me); the author (me again) hereby asserts his moral rights to ownership of same.2021-06-1015 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Lose Their HomeToday's theme gives me the perfect opportunity to air one of my own songs --- the backing-track of which has been continuity-music throughout my sketch-centred episodes! It's only a demo but I hope you like it.2021-06-0707 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Stay FlippantPresenting the latest instalment in the spoof seafaring adventure series 'Forever Blowing Bubbles': continuing the story from episodes 6 and 8 in the current season of this podcast. Join Commander Hassock and his 'Skipjack' crew for the first part of a mystery serial entitled 'Evangeline's Echo'. Characters and sketches © 2020-21 Paul Cromford (me); the author (me again) hereby asserts his moral rights to ownership of same.2021-06-0317 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Paint By NumbersCelebrating the benefits of what some might consider very infra-dig... and continuing an analysis of my song-project 'Film' (see Season 1 for your catch-up). A 'by-the-numbers' approach can often be rather helpful, and even more so if you're laying down your own numbers to begin with!2021-05-3109 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Have Their Head TurnedPresenting a BRAND NEW instalment in the 'Clint & Harry' sketch series, following on from the sketches in episodes 2 and 4 of this season. A plot -- of sorts -- now begins to thicken. Characters and sketches © 2020-21 Paul Cromford (me); the author (me again) hereby asserts his moral rights to ownership of same.2021-05-2712 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Coin A New WordIt isn't difficult to frundipate the language if you need a parguint that it doesn't currently possess. Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll did it all the time, intentionally, with imblidderifous ease; however, the accidental new word can be just as satisfying... as this anecdote explains.2021-05-2405 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Unblock A GutterPresenting one sketch first made public in November 2020, and one BRAND NEW sketch (April 2021): Marriott Frinton continues to find that with friends like Patacake Moore, no insurance company in the world would look at him. Characters and sketches © 2020-21 Paul Cromford (me); the author (me again) hereby asserts his moral rights to ownership of same.2021-05-2016 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Dress DownIt used to be that the spectacle of a grown man in shorts, when not doing something sporty, was ridiculous. Roderick Spode (in Wodehouse's Jeeves stories) is a figure of fun not least because of his costume. How did things get so topsy-turvy? This episode is a rant about the infantilisation of the adult human male.2021-05-1706 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Gawp At TVPresenting two sketches that were first made public in May and July 2020: Patacake Moore and the Twelve-and-a-Half-Inch Reflectors strut their musical stuff, and Mr Moore demonstrates to Marriott Frinton that a TV isn't necessarily all it seems. Characters and sketches © 2020-21 Paul Cromford (me); the author (me again) hereby asserts his moral rights to ownership of same.2021-05-1314 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Ape George MartinOr: how the dazzling array of processing-effects now available to any spare-bedroom studio musician is a mixed blessing. Also, is it time for someone to blow the whistle on Messrs Lennon & McCartney?2021-05-1005 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Be Accident-PronePresenting two sketches that were first made public in April and May 2020. Join Marriott Frinton, the world's most accident-prone practitioner of applied origami, and his xylophone-playing astronomer friend Mr Moore, who might remind you queerly of someone else... Characters and sketches © 2020-21 Paul Cromford (me); the author (me again) hereby asserts his moral rights to ownership of same. 2021-05-0618 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Look AttentiveDo you often feel, when you're addressing people face to face, that nobody's listening and you might as well talk to a brick wall? You're right, and here's how I know...2021-05-0306 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Scoff At ReincarnationPresenting three sketches that were first made public in December 2020 and January & February '21. Arthur Pendragon starts rebuilding his old squad, 'Round Table Wanderers', to field against 'Forces Of Darkness Disunited' in the coming re-match. Characters and sketches © 2020-21 Paul Cromford (me); the author (me again) hereby asserts his moral rights to ownership of same.2021-04-2919 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Stay On The HighwayOr... how 'The Road Not Taken' is all about "Making Your Flippin' Mind Up"! A brief tour of one of the best-known poems by Robert Frost, asking how well we *really* know it.2021-04-2604 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Pine For ChivalryPresenting two audio sketches that were first made public in August and October 2020. He's back, and he's looking for his old Round Table chums: someone had better start pulling the dust-sheets off the Camelot furniture! Characters and sketches © 2020-21 Paul Cromford (me); the author (me again) hereby asserts his moral rights to ownership of same.2021-04-2217 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Duck The PressureAre you lucky enough to be paid for doing the thing you enjoy the most? Conversely, does the prospect of that situation fill you with anxiety? It just goes to show that one person's Incentive is another person's Daunting Prospect of Pressure. Are you a reluctant talent, or do you know one? Then give ear to this episode...2021-04-1906 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Skimp On GreasePresenting two audio sketches that were first made public in December 2020 and January 2021. Meet the cast of the minisub series 'Forever Blowing Bubbles', and hear their most recent adventure, a liquorice-dark black comedy. Characters and sketches © 2020-21 Paul Cromford (me); the author (me again) hereby asserts his moral rights to ownership of same.2021-04-1516 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Believe In FateIs life really (as Homer Simpson famously remarked) "just a buncha stuff that happens", or can a weird-enough coincidence sometimes be called fate? Listen to this anecdote and decide for yourself...!2021-04-1205 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Have A Pingy ThingPresenting three audio sketches that were first made public in July and September 2020. Join the crew of the minisub 'Skipjack' (enigmatic Commander Hassock, stolid Talfryn and nervy Phobes) in their, um, ineffable adventures. Characters and sketches © 2020-21 Paul Cromford (me); the author (me again) hereby asserts his moral rights to ownership of same.2021-04-0818 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Believe In DemocracyYou might be tempted to think it's a fairy-tale, an impossibility... unless you happen to be Swiss! The Guardian article mentioned in this episode can be found here (if the link isn't broken yet): https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/12/lobbying-10-ways-corprations-influence-government 2021-04-0506 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Run And HidePresenting two audio sketches that were first made public in September and November 2020. Pity poor Clint Eastworth, our harassed little chap from episode 2; he's not making an easy life for himself in these sketches. What kind of cruel swine would inflict such misfortune on him? Ah, that'll be me then. Characters and sketches © 2020-21 Paul Cromford (me); the author (me again) hereby asserts his moral rights to ownership of same. 2021-04-0113 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Think They're FunnyIn praise of the comic genius Jerome K Jerome, the best literary mind to come out of the West Midlands. Of course you're familiar with 'Three Men In A Boat', but how well do you know its sequel?2021-03-2909 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Covet A CroissantPresenting two audio sketches that were first made public in April and June 2020: for the want of a croissant (or several), a stroppy little shopper brings a heap of trouble on his head... Characters and sketches © 2020-21 Paul Cromford (me); the author (me again) hereby asserts his moral rights to ownership of same. 2021-03-2515 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Reboot Their PodcastNew season! Tighter, brasher, funkier, and twice a week; dammit, this podcast will be essential! The opening episode explains all...2021-03-2204 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Have A Bucket ListThe last episode of this tentative First Season: bucket lists are all very well, but have you got a barge-pole list? What sort of things do you never intend to do in your whole life?2021-03-1604 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Follow The HerdConsidering our strange tendency to seek anonymity in the crowd: to do what it does, think as little as it does, go where it goes. Don't let yourself become a lemming!2021-03-1304 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Build A BassistTo go with your robot Ringo, why not bolt together a bogus bass-player? One that plays the right lines, and doesn't need plying with constant cups of your best coffee!2021-03-1004 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Have Two Left FeetThe dancing gene, discussed and analysed; was my father the first Grandad-Dancer? And why do I need a wardrobe around my neck before I'll sway?2021-03-0705 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Remake A FilmWas it Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs? Or was it Snow White and the Magnificent Seven? The subtleties of casting for film or TV.2021-03-0505 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Deplore Bad LanguageWelcome to the Linguistic Pedantry Club: please knock for admittance. That's 'Admittance' NOT 'Admission'; not around here, anyway...2021-03-0204 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Replay A DrummerFor computer-made music connoisseurs only: this episode showcases the sequenced drums track for one of my long-standing music productions, 'Film'.2021-02-2707 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Build A DrummerHow I slipped into the warm, cosy habit of making my own drum-patterns and drums tracks for music. Having limitless patience helps, of course.2021-02-2505 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Submit To BulliesWondering aloud: is it only fear that keeps us under a bully's thumb?2021-02-2205 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Be HeckledIf your performance is going wrong you might be heckled; if you're doing everything right you might be heckled. You can't please the hecklers so just please yourself!2021-02-1705 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can...Learn By RoteIf something's worth knowing, it's worth memorising -- that's what most of those gazillions of brain cells are for!2021-02-1405 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can...Boil An EggProving that no skill is too basic to completely forget, and that the humble egg has subtle depths...2021-02-1204 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can...Make Uncommercial MusicIt's not as tricky as it seems, to make the kind of music you'll never hear playing in supermarkets while you're buying your aubergines. Let's find out how!2021-02-0905 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can...Use A Covid Home-Test KitIf you haven't yet had to test yourself for Covid-19 infection, here's the UK process described in reassuringly daft terms.2021-02-0604 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... DaydreamOh....I beg your pardon, I was miles away! In defence of the noble art of daydreaming, drifting off, zoning out with the fairies and generally gathering wool!2021-02-0406 min

Any Fool Can...Any Fool Can... Start A PodcastIntroduction to the podcast: who am I calling a fool, and is being a fool necessarily a Bad Thing?2021-02-0306 min

Arts & IdeasPostcolonial Derby: Privateers, Pieces of Eight and the Postwar PlayhouseWhat connects a "double elephant" sized map, an academy of dissenters and Daniel Defoe? Shahidha Bari makes a virtual visit to the University of Derby's hub for the Being Human Festival 2020. Today the East Midlands city of Derby is often overlooked, but it was one of the powerhouses of the industrial revolution. Historians and archivists have been exploring Derby as a postcolonial city and uncovering its hidden past. We hear how an intricate set of world maps by the 18th-century cartographer Hermann Moll may have arrived in Derby and what they tell us about the city's relationship with the...2020-11-1245 min