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Home Tips

CPSC Provides Consumers With Information That They Need

Tweet If you are planning to undertake any kind of project around the home, are you always certain the products you are using are safe? Recent recalls include Honda lawnmowers

Home Tips

Air Conditioning Maintenance For Cool Summer Living

Tweet How has your summer been so far? Maybe a better question to ask is this one: how hot has your summer been? If you have central air-conditioning or even

Home Buying

Fannie Mae Increases Support For Multifamily Housing

Tweet Fannie Mae, which is the informal name for the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) — a government backed business — announced last week that it had invested $20 billion

Home Tips

How To Save Money, Part 3: Fun

Tweet This is the final installment in a three-part series focusing on important ways you can save money on food, fuel, and fun. So you’re not going on vacation this

Home Tips

How To Save Money, Part 2: Fuel

Tweet This is the second installment in a three-part series focusing on important ways you can save money on food, fuel, and fun. Oil will soon hit $150 per barrel,

Home Tips

How To Save Money, Part 1: Food

Tweet This is the first installment in a three-part series focusing on important ways you can save money on food, fuel, and fun. It doesn’t take a genius to realize

Home Tips

You Can Build Your Own Compost Area

Tweet Composting is a Smart Way to Recycle Compost piles are oh so very mainstream these days. Back during the 1960s and 1970s when green living was part of the

Home Improvement

Turn Your Garage Into Valuable Living Space

Tweet Home Improvement on a Budget! When it comes to unused spaces in many homes, garages are usually at the top of the list. After all, who really parks their

Consumer Financing

FTC Reveals Current Sweepstakes Scams

Tweet Con artists are always at work, coming up with ways to get people to part with their money. Some scams are small, involving the selling of a product that

Home Buying

Foreclosures: Wise Investment or Money Trap?

Tweet I was having a discussion with a friend last week when our conversation turned to the housing market. Bleak news upon bleak news for some people, but not for

Money Management

Save Big Bucks At The Grocery Store

Tweet Anyone who has done at least some food shopping over the past year has noticed a disturbing trend: grocery bills are climbing much faster than the rate of inflation.

Consumer Financing Money Management

New Car Incentives Continue To Grow, Expand

Tweet The rocky economy has something going for consumers, especially those in the market for new cars. End of model year incentives will be terrific, providing the opportunity for savvy

Home Improvement

So Many Choices When Renovating Your Bathroom

Tweet Professionals who understand home values will often say that there are two areas in a home which are most important to people: kitchens and bathrooms. This is made known

Consumer Financing Home Building Home Improvement

Considering Renovating? Do It Now!

Tweet Undertaking any renovation project means considering all aspects of the work to be done before getting started. Cost, hiring contractors, possible temporary displacement from your home, and the like