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When I was growing up, you could hardly watch TV without seeing that drug prevention commercial with the intact-then-fried egg, and that voiceover intoning ominously, "This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs."
Some of the self-defeating (at best) and bizarre (at worst) real [...]
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Q: I went late on my mortgage payments in order to get a loan modification. My lender did reduce my payments, but not my principal balance, so I’m still way upside down. I decided to walk away, but I wanted to buy another place first with my Veterans [...]
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Q: I would like to buy a home right now. This seems like a really basic question, but I’m not sure whether it’s better to wait and save the 20 percent down or to just buy with the minimum 3.5 percent downpayment? I feel like if I save [...]
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Thomas R. Lloyd owned and occupied his home in San Francisco, and fell behind on his mortgage payments. In an effort to avoid foreclosure, Lloyd sold his home to equity buyer Jeffrey E. Hoffman and simultaneously signed a leaseback/lease-option agreement under which Lloyd [...]
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Book Review Title: "The Richest Kids in America: How they Earn it, How they Spend it, How you Can, Too" Author: Mark Victor Hansen Publisher: Hansen House, 2009; 168 pages; $10.19 on amazon.com
If you haven’t heard of Mark Victor [...]
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My buyer clients know that they count on me to remind them that while fair market value, the comparables and the likely appraised value are all important inputs to their decision on how much to offer for any given property, the price they offer must also pass [...]
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Q: I bought a home and am concerned that it has a lot of the symptoms of Chinese drywall. Did the real estate companies that were listing these homes have any responsibility to determine if the house they are selling has this product, either due to a [...]
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Q: I fell several months behind on my mortgage and my property taxes when my hours were cut back earlier this year. Fortunately, my lender agreed to modify my loan, and now I’m on time with my mortgage again. Unfortunately, this did nothing for my property taxes, [...]
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In the case of Jones, et al. v. Sparks, et al., property belonging to Harry and Anita Jones shared a common boundary with property owned by their neighbor, Algin Stamper, that fronted a highway.
Given that access to the property via the original entrance was difficult, especially [...]
Forbes columnist and money manager Ken Fisher makes a strong case that each of these paths can lead to riches, but none of them owns the exclusive.
