| Buying into college-town real estate |
| National surveys attempting to determine the best places to live continue to include several college towns. The small-town environment is attractive for its s... |
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| Renter faces expensive plumbing lesson |
| Q: Recently the toilet in my apartment overflowed. The water poured out all over the bathroom and even into a couple of adjacent rooms. I contacted the man... |
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| Anatomy of a real estate appraisal |
| Q: I know that the city appraises a house for tax purposes. Is this the same method that banks use to appraise homes also? A: There's a lot of c... |
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| Save $25K a year the frugal way |
Book Review
Title: "The Cheapskate Next Door:... |
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| 5 tips for assessing a lowball offer |
| Your house is for sale for $350,000, and you're confident it's well-priced. You get an offer, but it's for $300,000, and you're stunned and disappointed by ho... |
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| Smokin' fireplace makeovers |
| Q: I'd like to remove my fireplace brick, but it goes all the way up from the hearth to the ceiling. Is it possible to remove the brick and replace it with... |
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| Judge denies Section 8 evictions |
| In March 2006, the landlord of the Morton Gardens apartment complex in Los Angeles sent tenant Debora Barrientos and her neighbors "Notice(s) of Withdraw... |
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| Inherit real estate without hiccups |
| DEAR BENNY: My wife has a problem you may be able to resolve. About 30 years ago her father died without a will. All the other six children had heard him r... |
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| Homebuyers, sellers still stuck in denial |
| Recently, the folks over on GOOD magazine's blog asked the question: Which class in high school or college impacted you the most? Why? Now, I was a bona... |
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| A pro's take on attic ventilation |
| Q: My house currently has a continuous ridge vent in the attic and two gable vents (one on each end of the attic). However, it has no soffit vents at all. ... |
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| 4 common real estate deal-killers |
| In May of this year, the sellers of an architect-designed home in the hills above Oakland, Calif., received two offers in less than two weeks. They accepted... |
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| Reap benefits from cash-in refinance |
| Cash-in refinancing means putting cash into a transaction by paying down the balance, as opposed to cash-out refinancing where you take cash out by increasing... |
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| 2 companies seeking short-sale strides |
| This past spring, the Treasury Department put into effect the Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives Program (HAFA), which provides incentives in connection... |
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| Bedbug problem bites at tenant |
| Q: One unit in our fourplex has a bedbug problem. The landlord hired an exterminator, who found a bug in two other units, so he recommends treating the ent... |
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| Buyer's deposit off-limits in failed sale |
| Q: The buyer of our home took us right up to one week before the closing date and backed out, stating he found another home he liked better. We had complie... |
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