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Veterans Housing Assistance![]() ![]() To learn more about this foundation or make a donation, logon to www.PentagonFoundation.org.
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Cool Tip to Cut Down on CookingBy Donna Wright In the summer heat, the very last thing anyone wants to think about is cooking. Every bit of energy I can come up with most evenings in this "I can’t believe we're still in July" weather, even in a cool air-conditioned home, is to make a bowl of cold ![]()
I confess that I live in the luxury of being a partner marriage with the children grown moved out of the house. My husband is able to fend for himself.
Although I can’t pull that off too often, given my husband’s enthusiasm for garden vegetables. In the spring, he planted peppers, corn, cantaloupes, several kinds of beans, watermelons, plus a dozen varieties of tomatoes.
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Summer Home Selling Tips
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California REALTORS® Praise New California Short Sale Law
Under a new California law, any lender that accepts a short sale (defined as yielding ![]()
In a previously prepared statement praising Gov. Jerry Brown for taking pen to SB 458 bill by signing it into California law, (CAR) representatives stated that in the past the holder of a first mortgage could receive an agreed-to short sale payoff as full payment on the first loan although a secondary lien holder might still go after the home seller for the total amount due on a second lien.
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The
Value of Owning a Home in Today's Economy ![]()
There are several good reason homeowners feel this way. Homeownership gives people a wide array of benefits, including several that are on the outside your pocketbook. The number one benefit is stability. In a 2010 study labeled "Social Benefits of Stable Housing," by National Association of Realtors (NAR) states that stable housing and homeownership go hand-in-hand. while homeowners move way less often than renters, and are thus embedded into the community and neighborhood for a much longer time.
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Single Women and Real Estate
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Those real estate experts are right on. The Joint Center for Housing Studies finds that the three chief reasons that drive single women to buying a home today are: relocation for family or job; more space; and just to have
their own home (called nesting).
This new trend toward female home buyers is instigating builders to include some additional features slanted toward attracting more single women. Builders of new homes have begun featuring gourmet kitchens, additional security features, and low maintenance yards .
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Realistic CouponingI save as much as 60% to 70% off the everyday price of groceries and personal hygene items on a regular basis.A family of five, could cut their spending from $450 to $550 per month by using coupons and also watching the prices on what they buy could cut their average grocery bill down to $50 to $75 per week which could be pretty good, although there's a trend with many people that expect to get every item they buy for only cents on each dollar or totally free.
The TV show called Extreme Couponing has left people with a belief that only 50% or as little as 25 percent saving is not good enough, and that you must to achieve 98 percent savings each time you shop.
That expectation is just not reasonable. So not meeting an expectation leads you to disappointment or lose interest, and pretty soon you have stopped saving any money period, because you quit couponing.
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Realtors® Offer Recommendations to Strengthen the Mortgage Origination ProcessThe National Association of Realtors® offered recommendations to Congress today about a number of issues affecting the mortgage origination process and the real estate and housing finance industry’s ability to facilitate home sales. Testifying before the House Financial Service Committee’s Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity, NAR spokesperson Steve Brown, executive vice president, Crye-Leike Realtors® in Memphis, Tenn., identified several proposed regulations and existing rules . Tornado Recovery Underscores How Much Home Ownership Matters As NAR’s Home Ownership Matters bus crosses Alabama this week, Realtors® are providing assistance to victims of the April 27 tornadoes with funds raised from Realtor® donations across the country. “When we see the devastation of families losing their homes in natural disasters, we’re reminded of just how much home ownership matters,” said National Association of Realtors® 2012 First Vice President Steve Brown, who met with Realtors® and families affected by the tornadoes.
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The Way Dangerous Chemicals Creep into Your Home
We bring harmful chemicals inside our homes on a daily basis. They could come from our shoes, our shower curtains made of vinyl. or even our new furniture Here are my 5 Number One Ways Dangerous Chemicals Creep inside Your Home, with some solutions you can do to make for a healthier place for your family and the planet.
2. Chemical Cleaners: A customary way possible toxic chemicals get in is from using chemical-based cleaners. The ingredients of these cleaners do not even have a requirement that they be placed on the label. Many of their ingredients can contaminate the inside air of our homes and potentially create all kinds of health problems like allergies, asthma, and reproductive issues. An alternative is to buy or make your own non-toxic cleaners using white vinegar, baking soda, citrus juice, Borax, and oxygenated bleach.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - Yet Another Federal Bureaucracy
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In reality work has already started behind the scenes which has been going on for several months. This new bureaucracy has been creating staff and getting their systems up to speed and projected be ready to open their doors by the July 22 date. Also they have been performing some initial Dodd-Frank tasks like combining the TILA Truth in Lending (TIL) statement and the RESPA Good Faith Estimate (GFE) into a single disclosure. This development, has been somewhat of a new surprise and appears as a promise as to how CFPB will deal with its many future regulatory undertakings.
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My Cedar Deck Rotted After only Eight Years ![]()
The next spring, The deck was treated using a semitransparent stain, which allowed the grain of the wood to show through but resembled paint. A few months down the road, the paint started peeling. Large flakes started coming off the wood. I got a hold of the painter, who returned the following spring and repainted the deck and didn't charge me anything.
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Saving Energy While Keeping Your Cool During a Heat WaveMother Nature along with the economy has no interest in cutting consumers a break. Longer, colder winters can quickly turn into drawn out, hotter summers. Adding insult to injury, this seems to be occurring as energy costs are going through the roof ![]() ![]()
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Protect your Pocketbook with a Home WarrantyEven while both home prices and sales continue to tank nationwide, literally millions of Americans are still navigating the buying and selling of homes process, and for a great number, the overwhelming amount of details and choices can become ![]()
Lelia Chapman, a VP of field sales at American Home Shield,, one of the older and larger home warranty providers in the nation, says that a trusted home warranty plan can help in providing an important degree of confidence for a home buyer and assist in distancing a seller’s property from other competition.
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