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How to Keep Your Fireplace Clean

By Brian McDonald ...

HUD Issues New Mortgage Rules to Help Consumers Shop for Lower Cost Home Loans

RISMEDIA, Nov. 13, 2008-For the first time in more than 30 years, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development issued long-anticipated mortgage reforms that will help consumers to shop for the lowest cost mortgage and avoid costly and potentially harmful loan offers. HUD will require, for the first time ...

When Your ‘Flip’ Flops: 5 Tips for Offering Your Investment Property as a ‘Vacation Rental’

By Alfred and Emily Glossbrenner ...

Including Lawn Services in Your Rental House Lease? Price Accordingly

Rental Strategies by Rob Massey ...

Americans Ready to Spend More Green on the Home

RISMEDIA, Nov. 7, 2008-A survey conducted at home shows in 15 cities across the country gauging consumer environmental practices suggests that many Americans are going green when it comes to their homes. Despite "cost" being singled out by 36 percent of respondents as the greatest impediment to going green, half ...

Beware of Bogus Green Labeling

By Robert Bieselin ...

Tame High Winter Energy Costs This Holiday Season

RISMEDIA, Nov. 3, 2008-High home heating and other energy costs need not dim your holiday cheer this year. The Alliance to Save Energy's energy-efficient holiday tips can help take the "chill" out of the holiday season by lowering home and vehicle energy bills, pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions-and even spark ...

How to Remake a Thrift-store Lamp

By Cindy Dampier ...

FHA 203k Rehab Loans – Are They Right for Your Clients?

By Jason Kotar ...

The Thirty-Second Commute

By Bart B. Sokolow, PhD. and Paul Wylie ...

Home Foreclosure – What Will It Do to Your Tax Bill?

RISMEDIA, Oct. 28, 2008-In a July 8, 2008 speech on the U.S. housing market, Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr. reported that 1.5 million foreclosures were started in 2007, and some economists estimate that about 2.5 million foreclosures will be started in 2008. By comparison, there were only 800,000 foreclosures ...

A Wall Street Alternative: 5 Timely Reasons to Invest in Vacation Property

RISMEDIA, Oct. 27, 2008-The stock market is down, and if you're like most people, your level of investing confidence has dropped as well. Yes, only those with nerves of steel feel good about playing the market right now. And if you're not one of those hearty souls, you're at a ...

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