When you have luminaries like Freddie Mac CEO Richard Syron telling investors that peak-to-trough, housing should decline 15 percent, it’s hard to estimate what kind of psychological and economic damage it will do to housing and the overall economy.
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Forty year mortgages can reduce your monthly mortgage payment, but is that enough to offset the extra cost of tacking 10 more years onto the conventional 30-year mortgage?
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You might assume from the steady drumbeat of bad news about housing and real estate that there’s nothing encouraging out there in the economy.
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When you have luminaries like Freddie Mac CEO Richard Syron telling investors that peak-to-trough, housing should decline 15 percent, it’s hard to estimate what kind of psychological and economic damage it will do to housing and the overall economy.
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Following years of getting slammed by hurricanes in the Sunshine State, condo owners are starting to consider self-insurance trusts to provide an alternative to the nearly-impossible rates charged by traditional insurance providers.
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“Persons who maintain walkways, whether public or private, are not required to maintain them in an absolutely perfect condition. The duty of care imposed on a property owner, even one with actual notice, does not require the repair of minor defects.” These words from a California court decision nicely sum up the essence of the [...]

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