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12/27/2007 Ask Realty Times: Landlord and Noisy Tenants
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12/27/2007 Market Conditions: St. Petersburg, Florida
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St. Petersburg, Florida, has seen inventory levels go up, and then up again, as market time continues to increase.
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12/27/2007 Americans Split on Subprime Bailout
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Borrowers are to blame for their subprime woes and lenders and Wall Street investors, not borrowers, would most likely benefit from any federal mortgage relief. Most taxpayers stand to foot the bill for new laws designed to address the subprime mortgage morass.
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12/27/2007 Declaring the Mortgage Meltdown a National Disaster
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The American Red Cross estimates that more than 350,000 homes were destroyed by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, while an additional 146,000 had major damage. According to a recent article in the New York Times, wildfires in Southern California consumed over 1,000 homes and other structures, were threatening 68,500 more, and had displaced over 500,000 people.
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12/27/2007 Pre-Listing Inspections: A Sure Sell?
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It's no news that it's become a buyer's market in many markets across the country. In my area (Kansas City) there are over 16,500 homes on the market and foreclosures are up 55 percent from this time last year.
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12/26/2007 Countrywide working with protesters on foreclosure prevention
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Countrywide Financial Corp. announced Friday that it's working with a community group that has been critical of its efforts to engage in workouts with troubled borrowers on a foreclosure prevention initiative that it hopes to launch in early 2008.
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12/26/2007 Top real estate video segments of 2007
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Inman News debuted a new real estate video channel this year, InmanTV.com. Here are our picks for the most memorable real estate video segments of 2007:
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12/26/2007 Is Uncle Sam Gunning For Granny's Gold?
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HUD presents itself as the borrower's friend, your buddy when it comes time to get a mortgage. There's considerable truth to this claim, just look at FHA mortgages in general. While much of the mortgage marketplace is melting down, the latest numbers from HUD show that the FHA program is likely to double in size this year as borrowers seek safe and sane financing.
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12/26/2007 Love The Ranch-style House
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Eighty percent of existing housing was built before 1980. Most of those houses are ranch-style. You know -- the shoe-box house with the living and dining rooms on the front, the kitchen on the back and the bedrooms all together down the same hallway.
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12/26/2007 Interest Rate Update
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