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- Appraisal Problems Worsened Meltdown
Category: Real Estate
Publish Date: 08-22-2008 09:00 PM -0700
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- As soaring home prices set the stage for America's great housing meltdown, a critical step in making sure those home sales were a fair deal -- the real estate appraisal -- was...[more]
- Professional Tests Can Uncover Exposure to Lead
Category: Real Estate
Publish Date: 08-22-2008 09:00 PM -0700
Lead paint poses a real threat to your family's health, especially if you have children. Older homes are particularly at risk for lead exposure. If you live in a house more than 30 years old and...[more]
- A Worthy Read to Get Serious About Estate Planning
Category: Real Estate
Publish Date: 08-22-2008 09:00 PM -0700
W e spend most of our waking hours either working to earn money or thinking about what we'll do with it: spend it, save it or invest it, lawyer John Ventura observes in his book "Kiplinger's Estate...[more]
- A Sham of a Tax-Avoidance Idea
Category: Real Estate
Publish Date: 08-22-2008 09:00 PM -0700
Q When my wife and I married three years ago, I owned my house free and clear. We bought a new house together and wanted to keep my house as a rental. I knew that I had three years to sell the...[more]
- One Lender for Life: Appealing, but Elusive
Category: Real Estate
Publish Date: 08-22-2008 09:00 PM -0700
Q Why do most home mortgage lenders sell their mortgages instead of keeping them? I have a problem with negotiating my mortgage deal with one firm for a week, then having my loan sold to another...[more]
- Coming Up With the Cash
Category: Real Estate
Publish Date: 08-22-2008 09:00 PM -0700
Not so long ago, Qiana Parker wouldn't have had to give up her apartment or curtail her shoe-buying habit to save for a down payment on a house.
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- Down Payment Help
Category: Real Estate
Publish Date: 08-22-2008 09:00 PM -0700
Department of Housing and Community Development HOPE hotline (foreclosure prevention): 877-462-7555
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- A Worthy Read to Get Serious About Estate Planning
Category: Real Estate
Publish Date: 08-22-2008 09:00 PM -0700
W e spend most of our waking hours either working to earn money or thinking about what we'll do with it: spend it, save it or invest it, lawyer John Ventura observes in his book "Kiplinger's Estate...[more]
- Neighbors, Boats, Bayfront Summers And a Reverence For Tradition
Category: Real Estate
Publish Date: 08-22-2008 09:00 PM -0700
Owings Beach is still cozy. There are still snug cottages, built in the 1920s for summer getaways to the bayside enclave in the Deale portion of southern Anne Arundel County. Narrow streets bearing...[more]
- Appraisers, Still Feeling Pressure
Category: Real Estate
Publish Date: 08-22-2008 09:00 PM -0700
Have the real estate valuation shenanigans and inflated home appraisals that characterized the boom years disappeared?
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