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By Greg Pearson RISMEDIA, January 23, 2009-(MCT)-The kids have moved out. Those three bedrooms are looking awfully lonely. That spacious backyard that once served as a barbecue pit/football field/volleyball court now looks like a breeding ground for weeds, not to mention back-breaking acreage dur...

By Monica Hatcher RISMEDIA, January 23, 2009-(MCT)-Since defaulting on her mortgage more than a year ago, Marisela Gonzalez has attended foreclosure prevention seminars, spent hours on the phone with her lender, paid a consultant, availed herself of bankruptcy protection-everything in her power t...

By LaTina Emerson RISMEDIA, January 20, 2009-(MCT)-Buying a foreclosure property was Amanda Rasch's only hope of owning her own home. After fleeing New Orleans to escape Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Rasch, her husband and two children lived with her parents in a small Augusta house purchased with ...

By Joan Morris RISMEDIA, January 24, 2009-(MCT)-Admit it. With all the holiday decorations stored away and the days still much too short for our liking, our houses feel like dark and joyless places. We're suffering from a bad case of the winter doldrums, and the lack of a budget for a major house...

RISMEDIA, January 24, 2009-As organizations prepare for annual employee goal setting sessions at the start of the New Year, SumTotal® Systems, Inc. a provider of talent development solutions, released the top 10 tips HR managers can use to drive better organizational alignment for improved perfor...

RISMEDIA, January 28, 2009-(MCT)-When the stock markets and housing values were soaring, certified financial planner James Bryan would plead with clients to set aside six months worth of take-home pay just in case of a job loss or a major home repair. "I had that conversation many times during pr...

RISMEDIA, January 28, 2009-If you're over 62 and a homeowner you have a unique opportunity to get significant, spendable value from your home, even if you still hold an existing mortgage. Recently, LendingTree launched a reverse mortgage service for interested senior homeowners looking to talk wi...

RISMEDIA, January 27, 2009-Existing-home sales rose unexpectedly while inventory declined, led by a surge of sales in the West, according to the National Association of Realtors®. Existing-home sales-including single-family, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops-jumped 6.5% to a seasonally adjusted ...

RISMEDIA, January 28, 2009-Today, as millions of homeowners struggle with what to do when the value of their property becomes less than the mortgage they owe-particularly those recently unemployed or unable to make their monthly payments-there is a growing need for clear, unbiased consumer protec...

RISMEDIA, January 29, 2009-Citing unseasonably cold weather in many parts of California and drawing upon the experience of having provided service to hundreds of thousands of homes, member firms of the Home Warranty Association of California (HWAC) are alerting homeowners to the energy and cost s...