| Love for home rooted in palm tree |
| Editor's note: This is the final installment of the "House Keys" series of columns by Marcie Geffner. My palm tree is doomed. ... |
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| Loan mod bandits |
| "DONT LET YOUR LENDER TAKE YOUR MONEY! MODIFY YOUR HOME LOAN TODAY!" That was the slogan -- in large capital letters and sans the necessary a... |
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| What a difference a new owner makes |
| "It's so ugly." That was my comment to my mother as we drove past a house in our neighborhood that she and my father owned for 24 years. <... |
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| Housing discrimination lives on |
| Let's get one thing straight: Housing discrimination is illegal, unethical and just plain wrong. Apart from some very narrow exceptions, fair housing laws... |
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| The loan-mod time bomb |
| Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. That's the sound of the federal government's Making Home Affordable loan modification program, which is set to explode som... |
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| Lawns: Grass isn't always greener |
| Conventional real estate wisdom puts a lot of faith in curb appeal as an important characteristic of a lovely and desirable home. And a crucial component of t... |
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| Homeowner takes on scam artist |
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| Real estate fears and the Big One |
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| The great apricot heist |
| The birds are back. Every summer, a flock of small birds attacks the plum and apricot trees in my backyard. Armed with their sharp eyes and pointy beaks... |
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| Is homeownership 'over'? |
| Throughout most of the three decades from 1969 to 1999, approximately 63 percent to 66 percent of U.S. households were homeowners, according to the U.S. Censu... |
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| Nightmare on Main Street |
| Should a loan officer who forecloses on a homeowner's mortgage be dragged into the fires of hell? That intriguing question is at the heart of director S... |
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| Homeowners smug no more |
| To be honest, maybe we were just a little too smug. After all, we were the nation's homeowners, and we believed we deserved the riches and comforts that... |
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| Defaulting homeowners strike back |
| The windows are broken. The doors are off their hinges. The walls have been punched through like Swiss cheese. The appliances, curtain rods, faucets and other... |
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| This house not for rent |
| Would you rent out your home for a commercial or civic purpose? That was the question I recently had to answer on two separate occasions. And while the... |
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| Why homeowners bury St. Joe |
| He's back. He's buried. He's upside-down. How perfect. Or, alternatively, how weird. "He" is of course St. Joseph, the patron of carpenters,... |
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