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  • Turn Over a New Leaf and Resolve to be Green
    With the coming of a new year, we have the chance to better our lives and turn over a new leaf. Why not start by living a more eco-friendly lifestyle. Clip this list of green alternatives and see how many you can apply to your daily life. You may be surprised at just how green you can be with very little effort, and who knows, maybe it will be contagious.
    Posted: 2009-01-09
    Category: Real Estate
  • HOA Hell or Heaven? Determine your home ownership style before buying!
    Google "homeowners association" and you'll find plenty of information on HOAs - and plenty of gripes as well. To prevent the problems you read about from becoming your own, carefully determine what your home ownership style is before investing in a HOA-controlled property.
    Posted: 2008-11-12
    Category: Real Estate
  • Short Sales , Foreclosures and Your Realtor
    Even so, buying a home that is up for foreclosure or short sale may not be a quick deal. In fact, the term 'short sale' is a misnomer as sometimes these deals drag on into 'long sales'! Much tolerance and politeness may be required.
    Posted: 2008-10-10
    Category: Real Estate
  • Buyer's Market - What's in it For You?
    Does the more experienced buyer know some things that first time buyers don't know? Probably so, and one of them would be how to search out the more likely bargains. Recent studies show that there are specific circumstances which may affect the size of the discount on a house price.
    Posted: 2008-10-10
    Category: Real Estate
  • Avoid The Strain of Drain Pain
    Tree roots can cause damage in more than one way: physical expansion of roots can shift paving stones and crack walls etc. Also the tree can remove moisture content from the soil which could lead to subsidence.
    Posted: 2008-09-03
    Category: Home Improvement
  • The Beneficial Bi-Weekly Rapid Reap Mortgage Choice
    Many of us don't get the best value for our mortgage money. For most of us, mortgages take the majority of our wages; for this reason we need to shop around for the best deal and many of us don't.
    Posted: 2008-09-03
    Category: Mortgages
  • Contemporary Versus Character
    It has always been traditionally accepted that if you are looking for a starter home you can pick from either a strata property or an older home; these days however, things seem to be different.
    Posted: 2008-07-30
    Category: Real Estate
  • First Time Buyers Alert
    With the news that mortgage interest rates are now on the increase, all potential first-time buyers should be on the alert. The dilemma of "should we buy now while the interest rates are low, or should we wait and see if house prices drop further?", is over. There is now a new dilemma: will mortgage rates go so high that we can't afford to buy a house? For first-time buyers there is one advantage here: now that the mortgage interest rates are going up, house prices may not increase yet. Ther
    Posted: 2008-07-30
    Category: Real Estate
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