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11/28/2007 Mortgage Moment
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11/28/2007 Who Owns the Fence?
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Property line issues have suddenly cropped up in the emails I've received in the past few weeks. It appears that homeowners are more aware of their property lines (specifically if a neighbor is violating it) during the spring and summer months than at other times. As we get out there and trim limbs (from the neighbor's big oak tree), mend the fence (which is actually the neighbor's), and try to clean up unsightly encroachments on the line, we become aware that the guy next door hasn't kept up with his property and now the problem is personal.
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11/28/2007 Gutter Cleaning Robot Honored
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A slender, 2-inch tall, remote-controlled robot, fitted with the power to clean and able to clear 60 feet of gutter in 10 minutes, recently won top honors as the most innovated home appliance this year.
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11/28/2007 Ten Ways to Make Your Emails More Appealing: Part I
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Plain old gray, all-text emails get boring fast. That's mostly because many business people just don't know how to liven up their messages by adding varied type faces, colored text and varied font sizes, clickable links, images, divider lines, and so on. The worst offence, however, is to NOT send your emails in the HTML format.
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11/27/2007 Mayors predict foreclosures will have dire impact on cities
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Property values will decline by $1.2 trillion in 2008, denting consumer spending, property tax revenues, job creation and economic growth, according to an economic impact report released today by the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
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11/27/2007 Los Angeles, Napa top least affordable housing markets
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Housing affordability increased in the third quarter compared to the same quarter last year, the National Association of Home Builders reported today, though less than half of all new and existing homes sold during the third quarter were affordable to families earning the national median income.
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11/27/2007 Home prices drop at record rate in national index
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Economist Robert J. Shiller sees warning signs in a national home-price index that dropped at a record rate in the third quarter.
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11/27/2007 Conforming loan limit stays at $417,000
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The conforming loan limit for mortgages purchased by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will remain at $417,000 next year, while debate continues over whether it will be lowered in 2009 to reflect falling home prices.
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11/27/2007 Consumer confidence worsens
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Consumer confidence dropped for the fourth straight month in November as Americans grew more pessimistic about business conditions, jobs and gas prices, The Conference Board reported today.
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11/27/2007 Real estate rates fall overnight
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Long-term mortgage interest rates were down Monday, and the
benchmark 10-year Treasury bond yield dropped to 3.83 percent.
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