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Jobs are expected to be the focus of tonight's State of the Union speech by President Obama. Though the magic solution is still to be found, a fourth quarter 2010 poll of The National Association for Business Economics (NABE) found that 42% of them expect to hire in the first half of 2011. That ...

What's the really BIG news?  It's the growing power of consumers to find it ALL online, include the property they want to buy. According to REALTOR.com president Errol Samuelson, 2010 was the first year that more people found their new home themselves than real estate agents found homes for them....

           One BEST list (I told you I love these!) From the latest Realtor' poll - or better said, from the real estate agents trying to sell your house in a tough economy: THE TOP FIVE HOME IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR HOME SELLERS: Project #1.  CLEAN AND DECLUTTER. Average cost $290.  Rate of retu...

  Closets.  Not anything you spend a lot of time thinking about until lack of space forces your attention in that direction. With average home size dropping, and remodeling projects replacing moving to a bigger space, a desire to spruce up closet space and improve efficiency comes as no surprise ...

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     There are signs that banks are beginning to approve more loans to consumers for the first time since the credit crunch began. Important factors include big banks posting good profits, and job-loss statistics decreasing, and a stock market at its highest point since 2008. So far, most loans h...

It's not really new. Some faiths have had new homes blessed for centuries. The foreclosure crisis has merely helped to resurrect old practices. House Blessings.   Call it post-sale staging: helping your buyers get rid of the bad vibes in their newly bought foreclosure home.   After all, the house...

The US Government has long been involved in helping to assure a flow of funds for the US housing market.  Support of the Savings & Loans served the purpose until 1989 when deregulation of interest rate controls forced the S&Ls to compete in a real market economy. The result was a bailout that cos...

Best Places To Retire...These lists are SO much fun to read!!  I'm one of the lucky ones.  My market is the Western North Carolina Asheville Metro area (which includes Lake Lure) and it regularly makes these lists. Sometimes I read the "Best" and wonder WHAT was the writer thinking?  Honolulu?  I...