Picture This....Show A Good Photo And The House SELLS!

Good pictures are a crucial marketing tool for a home sale.  Just ask Clarissa and Mark Padilla, who were able to get a contract on their Sherman Oaks, Calif., condo unit in less than two w...

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U.S. home prices continue upward move in June

U.S. home prices bounced higher for a second month in June, according to an index released Tuesday which showed the strongest back-to-back monthly advance in the more than decade-long history of...

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Housing recovery brightens Fannie Mae economic outlook

Housing remains a bright spot in an economy where consumer spending dropped nearly a percentage point in the second quarter and a looming year-end fiscal cliff is haunting the financial markets,...

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5 Favorite Features Spotted at House Beautiful's Kitchen Of The Year

White is the new stainless when it comes to kitchen appliances. Whirlpool’s new line of freestanding and built-in appliances puts a contemporary spin on white with elegant sheen and sleek silver accents. The best part: White Ice is much easier to clean than its steel predecessor; plus, white stuff never goes out of style.



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Home Sellers Are More Successful With A Real Estate Agent

Some homeowners may have a strong preference for selling their own properties, but a new poll by HomeGain suggests having a real estate agents improves a person's odds of offloading their home

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What Do You Buy When Nothing is Perfect?

Today's "dream home" emphasis on buying real estate makes it tough for buyers whose wish list and budget do not match. If you have designer tastes and a fixer-upper budget, should you buy now, or wait until you can afford more?

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How to make a small home feel bigger

Big city life comes with certain advantages, but the big money required for a spacious home isn’t one of them. If you’re a cramped city dweller who always seems to be running out of ...

 

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Ten Hottest Summer Real Estate Markets

As the drought produces the driest summer in years for the majority of the U.S. bargain hunters are finding some of the best deals in housing California in a generation. The ten hottest summer r...READ MORE

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Google's Goats and 13 More Amazing Facts from Around the World

We bet some of this trivia about home and habitat will stun you.

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Green Ways To Wash Your Car

In an effort to be more environmentally conscious, you may have already swapped your incandescent bulbs for compact fluorescent lamps, reduced your use of air conditioning or started riding your.

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Three Things Many Condo Buyers Ignore But Shouldn't

There are costs that come as trade-offs for the advantages of living in a shared community, where the homeowners all share the costs of maintaining parts of the building or complex -- and one of.  READ MORE

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Mortgage closing costs fell 7% for homebuyers

Federal regulations are helping to significantly reduce the amount new home buyers are paying come closing time

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The Top 10 Cities With the Youngest Populations

Looking for a market filled with Gen Y renters? Look no further than Provo, Utah, where the median age is 23.3, making it the youngest city in America.

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10 Smart Things I've Learned from People Who Never Went to College

Great article I found in Forbes.  I hope you enjoy!

 

1.  You can learn something useful from anyone.

Whenever we find ourselves ignoring someone because we’ve already determined that they aren’t “smart” enough to say something meaningful, we’ve made a big mistake. Besides being presumptuous and arrogant, this mindset blocks out every useful thing the other person might pass along. Instead of just listening and mining the conversation for nuggets of wisdom, we allow our pre-existing bias to brand everything as  “not smart enough for me.” Incredibly bad idea. I’ve yet to meet someone who couldn’t teach me something.

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