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Use Your Gift Cards Before They Expire

You’ve just moved into your new home and the welcome shower given by family members and friends yielded some very desirable gifts. A tiffany lamp, garden tools, and a food

Home Selling

Online Home Selling — An Option For You!

The housing market is just beginning to start its annual heat up, just as winter’s cold releases its icy grip on much of the nation. Spring is the season when

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Should You Simply Walk Away From Your Mortgage?

You are behind on your mortgage payments and are struggling to keep up with your credit card and car payments. Food and gas have gone up in price and your

Credit Cards

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Home Buying Relocation

Home Buying 7-Step Plan, Step 4

Understanding Escrow Congratulations, you found the home of your dreams and are ready to put some money down and finance the rest. Getting approved for a mortgage (assuming you still

Achieving Success

A Success Building BLOG (part VI.e)

BLOG postings: (link to Achieving Success BLOG for all posts and PDF downloads) Discipline to Success: The Components of Well-Roundness So they committed themselves to the will of God and

Home Selling

Prepare Your Home For A Quick Sell

The housing market may be tough in some areas of the country, but that doesn’t mean you should hold back placing your home on the market. If you have been

Credit Cards Money Management

Keep A Close Watch On Your Credit Card Statements

Scam artists may not be the only ones pulling a fast one on you. Have you checked your credit card statements lately? No, I don’t mean the amount that you

Home Selling

Should You Short Sell Your Home?

If you are facing an irreversible financial problem, then to “short sell” your home is one method for possibly finding relief from an important debt obligation. With a short sell,

Home Building

Enhancing Your Home’s Interior

This article represents the final article in our home construction specification plan series. Assembling a Home Construction Specification Plan — Spec Plan T: Interior Decor Who is the best judge

Home Buying Relocation

Home Buying 7-Step Plan, Step 3

Negotiating the Offer You’re ready to start shopping for a home, understanding that mortgage rates are low and the housing market has cooled. As a buyer, this could be a

Achieving Success

A Success Building BLOG (part VI.d)

BLOG postings: (link to Achieving Success BLOG for all posts and PDF downloads) Discipline to Success: The Components of Well-Roundness So they committed themselves to the will of God and

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Housing Prices: Bottoming Out or Still Falling?

Quick: Home prices have bottomed out or they could still drop an additional 25%. Depending on what you read and whom you believe, you will hear diverging, even contradictory predictions

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January Home Sales Drop, But Beat Expectations

For January 2008, U.S. home sales dropped by 0.4% to an annual pace of 4.89 million homes. According to the National Association of Realtors, which tracks home sales, the year-to-year

Free Internet Tools

You Can Track Local Crime Online

Today’s mobile-high tech society means that your next door neighbor could be a complete stranger to you, an oddity of our times. We’re better connected with online “friends” in the