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Lifestyle is keeping budget goal out of reach
Dear Liz: My husband and I are recovering from a job loss four years ago. We used up all our savings and home equity. My husband is now employed, but we are struggling to keep ahead even with a salary of about $100,000. I was a stay-at-home mom for the...Tags: Interior Policy, Finance, Budgets and Budgeting, Freddie Mac, Personal Finance
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Avoid costly mistake when collecting last month's rent upfront
Q: When my tenant moved in, I collected a security deposit of one month's rent, plus last month's rent. Now, 10 years and two rent hikes later, the tenant is leaving and says she won't write a check for the difference between the current rent and the rent...
Tags: Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Halloween, Civil Rights, Rentals
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Technicality lets tenant assign lease to friend
Q: My tenant assigned his lease to his friend without my consent, and I didn't realize it until the new "tenant" withheld rent over repairs. I lost the case, which turned on the anti-assignment clause and the difference between "cannot" and "may not."...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Rental Service, Laws, Litigation
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How the welfare state has grown — and sapped America's economy and culture
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." — Thomas Jefferson My recent column on the challenges associated with the Social...
Tags: Health Insurance, Interior Policy, State of the Union Address, Lyndon B. Johnson, Career and Workplace
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Manufactured homes and FHA financing
Real Estate MattersQ: We have a problem. My son bought a manufactured home last year at the age of 21 and got an FHA mortgage on the home. It appears that he should have never received the FHA loan due to the home. Due to their failed marriage, my son and his ex-wife hired...Tags: Services and Shopping, Finance, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Mortgages
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Deal bolsters prospects for stalled marina project
A stalled residential marina development in Blue Island has been purchased by a south suburban company that built its name rehabbing foreclosed homes. Tinley Park-based Mack Cos. acquired 27 acres at Fay's Point, on a peninsula between the Cal-Sag...
Tags: Services and Shopping, Finance, Real Estate, Broadway Theater, Condos and Houses
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Programs help homebuyers clear mortgage hurdle
Hundreds of would-be homeowners stepped forward in the final two months of last year to claim $15,000 down payment assistance grants from Wells Fargo & Co.'s CityLift program. With no waiting list being kept and the funds all reserved, the program...Tags: Financial and Business Services, Interior Policy, Services and Shopping, Finance, U.S. Department of Justice
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Let the real fat cats pay their fair share
Victor Davis HansonWho exactly were the rich who, as the president said, were not "paying their fair share"? The rapper Jay-Z (net worth: nearly $500 million)? The actor Johnny Depp (2011 income: $50 million)? Neither seems to have heard the president's earlier warning...Tags: Peter Orszag, Republican Party, Al Gore, Solyndra LLC, Fannie Mae
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Kevin Hunt: Is This A Federal Reverse-Mortgage Offer Or A Scam?
The Hartford CourantThe successful scam letter looks authentic. But what happens when an authentic offer looks like a scam? Shirley Stewart of South Windsor recently received a multi-color form letter — the old style, U.S. Postal Service type — inviting her...Tags: U.S. Postal Service, Services and Shopping, South Windsor, Mortgages, Real Estate
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Is recording tenant meeting a sound plan?
Q: One of my tenants wants to meet with me to go over some issues we're having with him. He has complained that we are discriminating against him, and has threatened to file a complaint. I think he's just trying to get some money out of us, and I want...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Judges, Rental Service, Lawyers
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Cannot streamline refi 15-year loan to 30-year
Real Estate MattersQ: I obtained a 15-year fixed FHA home loan early last year with an interest rate of 3.75 percent. I have about 13 years to go on the loan. I've been told FHA streamline refinances cost almost nothing. Do I qualify? I was considering refinancing for 30...Tags: Services and Shopping, Real Estate Buyers, Finance, Money and Monetary Policy, Mortgages
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Reibman wants Callahan investigated
Valley 610Northampton County executive candidate Glenn Reibman said he wants Mayor John Callahan investigated further for using federal grant dollars to balance Bethlehem's 2010 and 2011 budgets. Reibman, a former two-term county executive, is in a three-way race...
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