Affording Your Lifestyle
Posted by Lorren on July 10, 2010
Moving out of a home that you hate for a nice home is great, but it’s important to be able to afford where you’re living.
History Repeats Itself…
Posted by Lorren on October 29, 2008
I found this on MSN’s message boards… this is an excerpt from Only Yesterday by Frederick Lewis Allen. They were discussing the article on the Great Depression written by Jim Jubak.
“Speculation was easy-and quick. No long delays while titles were being investigated and deeds recorded; such tiresome formalities were postponed. The prevalent method of [...]
Should You Get A Mortgage?
Posted by Lorren on October 15, 2008
Do you like what ACORN has done for this country? Would you like to donate to them?
Well, if you don’t like ACORN and other groups like them, you might want to rethink getting a mortgage.
I just found out that a bill passed earlier this year requires anybody who wants to get a mortgage to [...]
The Housing Market of Cards
Posted by Lorren on January 28, 2008
The news of the day is that new home sales showed their worst performance in 16 years in 2007. This is only in addition to all the mortgage defaults and tumbling prices for homes going on.
60 Minutes did a report on mortgages last night, focusing on Stockton, California, where a lot of the skyrocketing [...]
Highest Inflation in 17 Years
Posted by Lorren on January 16, 2008
Woke up this morning to see an Excite article to see that inflation is the highest that it’s been in 17 years.
Of interest to note, is that the two items that rose the highest last year were energy and food costs. Energy costs were up 17.4 percent, and food costs were up 4.1 percent. [...]
