Archive for the ‘Real Estate’ Category
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
The picturesque foreclosure involves a homeowner in arrears walking to the bank to drop off the keys, waving good-bye to their house and their credit rating. Now the banks are trying to drop off the keys for homes in various stages of repossession from these borrowers -- vacant homes that ...
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
Maybe not right now, maybe not right out of college, and maybe not in the middle of a big city. But you can own a home. Titling an article "Why you might never own a home" isn't meant to be encouraging, and though it may be dire now for people ...
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007
A friend at work chatted with me earlier this week about a early-twenty-something couple he knew that were renting and really wanted to buy a house so that they could start a family. It sounded like the couple was letting the housing market "put their lives on hold" because ...
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
I was spending time with a friend from church this past weekend. At one point the conversation turned onto the insane appreciation of our homes' values over the past few years. My friend said that he didn't earn all of that equity. That's exactly the right answer. I've said that ...
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