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Now might be a great time to buy a home.  With housing prices falling in most areas of the country and with the 10 months inventory of available homes continually supplemented with foreclosed and bank-owned homes, a would-be home owner with a steady job, sufficient income to pay the payments, and...
12/02/2008
Amidst bailouts to AIG, WAMU, and other corporate entities, there is always the fear that executives will be richly compensated as workers, stockholders, and now taxpayers foot the bill.  As GM and other automakers hover on the brink of bankruptcy, one concern in any bailout talk is that executiv...
12/01/2008
Sellers often prepare their home for sale by painting, cleaning up, and renovating to make their property more appealing for buyers.  When considering renovations, the questions always are: What types of improvement will "pay off" by impacting selling price? And over how long a period of time?  I...
11/28/2008
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving; Christmas is next month. This year, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are distributing their gifts early and giving 16,000 homeowners something extra to be thankful for.  Both mortgage agents are suspending foreclosures and evictions until after the New Year. At that point, the...
11/25/2008
The Big Three Automakers are failing. In this bailout era, leaders have been to Washington begging for $25 billion to tide them over.  With millions of jobs at stake and a devastating ripple effect anticipated throughout the economy if they don't get help, commentators of all political persuasion...
11/23/2008
With large numbers of Nevada residents overwhelmed by the threat of foreclosure, the State of Nevada recently established a foreclosure website and call center to field concerns about the process and help people reclaim their lives. The website http://foreclosurehelp.nv.gov/ is a helpful potpourr...
11/20/2008
These are not be the best of times even for Las Vegas resort and casino owners, as high gas and airfare prices and an economy that offers less discretionary income keep patrons away.  Earrings for Harrahs, MGM's Mirage , and other casinos are down 20% this year.  As a result, job losses to date i...
11/18/2008
For the 22nd straight month, Nevada was at the top of the foreclosure hit parade, as 1 in 54 households received a notice in October, 2008 and foreclosure filing rose 11% compared to September.  Las Vegas was the worst metropolitan area as 1 of 62 houses received a notice and 6% more households f...
11/16/2008
As the mortgage market readjusts to new economic realities, an oft-forgotten source of a loan might be your local credit union.  While mortgage loans originations fell 17% at banks in 2008, they are up 10.1% at credit unions.   Credit unions, which offer a variety of loan products including conve...
11/13/2008
A sagging housing market was been given an expected boost by recent legislation in July, 2008 that offers first time home owners a $7,500 tax credit with the purchase of single family home, townhome, or condo.  Homes purchased by U.S. citizens between April 8, 2008 - July 1, 2009 qualify to claim...
11/11/2008
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