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Septic and Drain Services
2/4/2012 11:01 PM
Septic and drain services are composed of a number of different tasks. Essentially, anything that has to do with the removal of wastewater and other hazardous materials from...Read more about Septic and Drain Services...Read More
 
Disaster Restoration Services Provide Shelter from the Storm
2/3/2012 11:01 PM
The reason disaster restoration services are so invaluable is because they are like handymen trained in tragedy. They specialize in any type of natural mishap, big:...Read more about Disaster Restoration Services...Read More
 
Stainless Steel Cabinets: Never Reface Again!
2/2/2012 11:01 PM
If you already have a modern kitchen with state-of-the-art appliances, tile backsplashes, or maybe even a concrete countertop, your old-fashioned wood cabinetry may feel...Read more about Stainless Steel Cabinet...Read More
 
Disability Services Customize Convenience with Chic-ness
2/1/2012 11:01 PM
Disability services are wide-ranging and multi-faceted. From home healthcare to accessible building design and customer relations, perhaps the first...Read more about Disability Services...Read More
 
Short on Space? Try a Kitchenette
1/31/2012 11:01 PM
A kitchenette is a kitchen in miniature, containing all the basics of their larger cousins. A sink, stove range, mini-fridge, and a few cabinets are the standard fare...Read more about Kitchenettes...Read More




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How to Install a Ceiling Fan
7/12/2012 1:00 AM
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How to Lay a Cork Floor
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How to Install a Front-Entry Flagpole
6/28/2012 1:00 AM
Hanging the Stars and Stripes will give your house a nice seasonal touch of classic Americana. Here's how...Read More
 
How to Paint a Room
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How to Build an Outdoor Bar Cart
6/14/2012 1:00 AM
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How to Build a Tool Bench
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Housing is economy's elephant in the room
2/3/2012 2:48 PM
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Should leads go to buyer's agents or listing agents?
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IRS crackdown on identity theft
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Mortgage help for homeowners with hospitalized child
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Bankers group to support charity in 3 new US locations

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Tips for replacing air ducts in slab foundation home
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Mortgage rates probe new lows
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Eight out of 10 loan applications are for refis

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Listing syndication debate heats up
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Secrets to working with foreign homebuyers
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Tapping the international buying pool

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Top 10 U.S. real estate hotspots for international house hunters
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Florida is top state, Las Vegas the No. 1 city

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4 steps to buying a house in 2012
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REThink Real Estate

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Own vs. Rent files government housing policy
2/4/2012 4:09 AM
CNBC - Diana Olick - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage giants under government conservatorship, together owned 182,212 foreclosed properties as of the end of September.

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What if Obama and Krugman ran a business?
2/4/2012 4:08 AM
Forbes - Kyle Smith - This winter has brought a useful tutorial on capitalism courtesy of the media, the Democratic party and President Obama. They have illustrated for us how the depredations of profit-seekers crush American aspirations.

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Mortgage rates fall to record low
2/4/2012 2:06 AM
Calculated Risk - Freddie Mac today released the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS®), showing average mortgage rates dropping to new all-time record lows as data on economic growth fell short of market projections. All products in the PMMS sur...Read More
 
The secret of American health care
2/4/2012 2:04 AM
Slate - Darshak Sanghavi - At the end of 2011, the remarkable innovator Donald Berwick was forced to resign as the recess-appointed head of Medicare and Medicaid, a casualty of Republican-led opposition to his confirmation. An outspoken fan of the United Kingdom’s single-payer sys...Read More
 
Pension income guaranteed? Yes, but…
2/3/2012 11:59 PM
Time Moneyland - Dan Kadlec - As if we needed another reminder that our safety net is threadbare, AMR Corp., the American Airlines parent company, says it will shut down pensions covering 130,000 employees and retirees as part of a reorganization in bankruptcy court. A government b...Read More
 
Condo prices fell in all five cities in November
2/3/2012 11:58 PM
HousingVIEWS - Maureen Maitland - November 2011 data for the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices were released on Tuesday January 31st, revealing monthly declines in condo prices in all five of the metro areas covered by our indices – Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San Fr...Read More
 
The great zero-interest-rate gamble
2/3/2012 11:56 PM
The Telegraph - Jeremy Warner - Bravo, Mario Draghi, the European Central Bank’s new president. Everyone assumed that this mild-mannered Italian would be so determined to prove himself to his Bundesbank masters that he’d be even more German than the Germans in pursuit of the principles o...Read More
 
Real estate drops but second home market may see increase
2/3/2012 11:54 PM
Realty Times - Phoebe Chongchua - Interest rates continue to remain low for mortgages and it looks as though the Federal Reserve will keep the rate at which banks lend to each other overnight low through 2014.

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Geithner defends Dodd-Frank, pledges housing moves
2/3/2012 11:53 PM
Wall Street Journal - Alan Zibel and Jeffrey Sparshott - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner defended the Dodd-Frank financial-overhaul law against mounting attacks on Thursday, the latest in a series of moves by the Obama administration to push ahead with its signature Wall Street ove...Read More
 
January Employment Report revisions and issues
2/3/2012 11:52 PM
Calculated Risk - Tomorrow (Friday) the BLS will release the January Employment Situation Summary at 8:30 AM ET. Bloomberg is showing the consensus is for an increase of 135,000 payroll jobs in January, and for the unemployment rate to remain unchanged at 8.5%.

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