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Bad Short Sale Information Hurting Buyers’ Credit Scores

  By Easton L Lawrence In theory, some home sellers who did a short sale in the past could again qualify for a mortgage. But Florida senator, Bill Nelson, says too many credit scores list a short sale as a foreclosure which is hurting those buyers chances of getting qualified again. A technicality is blocking [...]

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U.S. Home Prices UP 10.9% – Most since 2006

  By Easton L Growing number of Buyers keep piling into the real estate market causing inventory to dry-up.  As a result, buyers are bidding on a short supply of homes, driving prices higher and helping the housing market recover. This growing trend causes U.S. home prices to rise 10.9 percent in March compared with a year [...]

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What Happens When Good Drivers Marry Bad Drivers?

  By Aaron Crowe, CarInsurance.com “For better or for worse” includes car insurance. Most couples will find cheaper rates after tying the knot because of multicar and multipolicy discounts, and the fact that most insurance companies view married people as less risky than single drivers. But some newlyweds might be better off saying, “I don’t” [...]

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How to Turn $250K Into Retirement Income

  By addMorejuice Baby boomers are hitting retirement age in droves and scrambling for investment advice. Here are seven varying opinions for creating an income stream. Here is the advice of the financial planners on investing $250,000 for income: Use the ladder: Russell Francis, Portland Fixed Income Specialists, Beaverton, Ore. “I would ladder a diversified combination [...]

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Retailers Charging Illegal Debit Card Fees

    By Tia Law We have laws that prohibits these fees, but they just wont die because several retailers continue to slap these fees on unsuspecting or uninformed customers. Some gas stations, convenience stores and other merchants are illegally charging fees for debit card users, as well as putting minimum purchase amounts on customers [...]

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Senate Bill Pass Allowing States to Tax Online Sales

  By Easton L Lawrence The United States senate passes a bill that will changes the largely tax free shopping reign online for both retailers and consumers. Despite a well orchestrated push back by online giants like EBay, the senate sided with traditional retailers and financially strapped state and local governments Monday by passing the bill [...]

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Pending Home Sales Rise As Inventory Tightens

  By Easton L Buyers flooding the real estate market to take advantage of low mortgages rates, increase pending sales but dry-up the supply of homes on the market. As a result, recovery slow down because the supply of homes isn’t keeping up with buyer demand. The report which was conducted by the National Association [...]

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Ways to Greatly Improve Your 401k Returns

  By Tia L  If you’re willing to put in a little effort to improve your financial future, these ideas will make the money you’ve been investing work harder for you. Boost Your Returns Your 401k or other retirement savings plan can work harder for you, if you’re willing to put in a little effort [...]

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8 Reasons to go Get a Mortgage Now

  By Wonda J House prices are on the rise in most parts of the country, however, since we are still seeing great mortgage interest rates and a well-functioning mortgage market, you should enjoy the ‘good old days’ while they last and act when you can. Mortgage rates may rise, and the housing supply will dwindle, which will [...]

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Lenders Start to Loosen Up on Home Loans

By Easton L Lawrence According to new data obtain by LendingTree, lenders start to entertain home shoppers who are lacking the big down payments as the housing market improves. In the first quarter of this year, 19 percent of conventional loan offers made by lenders on the online LendingTree exchange were for loans with downpayments between 5 percent [...]

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