RISMedia, June 10, 2011—Despite the ups and downs of the housing market, home owners and non-owners alike consider owning a home essential to the American Dream.
That’s the key finding of a recent survey of people likely to vote in 2012 that was conducted on behalf of the National Association of Home [...]
Not to be a skeptical, glass half-empty agent, but this number can’t be very high. Who doesn’t know someone frustrated in their dealings with their mortgage servicer or bank? Roughly only one in four surveyed has any trust or belief in the American financial system.
The Chicago Booth/Kellogg School Financial Trust Index reports just 26% currently [...]
That’s right! Hidden in the 2000+ pages of the Obamacare Health Care Legislation is a sale stax when you sell real estate. If you want to sell your home after 2012, then you will have to pay the piper to the tune of 3.8% of the sale price of the home. On a $100,000 transaction, you will have to [...]
By: Fred Krugman
Courtesy the NY Times
The lights are going out all over America — literally. Colorado Springs has made headlines with its desperate attempt to save money by turning off a third of its streetlights, but similar things are either happening or being contemplated across the nation, from Philadelphia to Fresno.
Meanwhile, a country that once [...]
