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Local market conditions in Baton Rouge and surrounding areas and home tips.
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2007
Resolve To Protect Your Household's Bottom Line You procrastinated again. More than a week into the New Year and you still haven't made up your mind what you'll resolve to improve, change, or accomplish. A home owner advocacy group is here to help. The American Homeowners Foundation (AHF), a cons...
02/23/2007
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Color 2007 Red, Blue, But Not White The red and blue hues in this year's color forecasts have nothing to do with the color of ink on a growing number of residential real estate investments or the feeling caused by a bleeding bottom line. They also have nothing to do with the attention to politica...
02/23/2007
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It Is A Good Time To Decide It sounds tired, trite, hackneyed, even a little specious, especially when it's become little more than a marketing slogan used to describe just about any housing market, no matter how bleak or bright. However, right now, the popular refrain, "It's a good time to buy,"...
02/15/2007
Buying Houses Just One Way To Invest In Real Estate Everyone generally understands that as a real estate investor, the concept is to let someone else's rent payments pay for your mortgage and to hopefully come out with a positive cash flow at the end of the month.There are plenty of ways to get s...
02/15/2007
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Pack Away Kids' Moving Blues Buying a new home can be very exciting for adults, but it can evoke a whole lot of fear in children. Summer break is when many families decide to make a move since children are frequently on break. But regardless of the timing, it's helping children understand the rea...
02/15/2007
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Stopping The Noise Have you ever heard your neighbors when you didn't want to? Maybe they're in their yard or even in their home and the sounds bleed through into your house. For some homeowners stopping the outside noise from coming in is quite the challenge. "We've been here 10 years and it's b...
02/15/2007
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Post Boom Second Home Buying Strategies Buying a playhouse isn't a game. Economic market conditions shifted in vacation home buyers' favor in some regions of the country last year, just as the traditional winter weather season took still more heat out of the second home and resort markets. But th...
02/15/2007
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Mortgage rates were moving all sorts of ways as the first month of the new year came to a close. Some were up, some were down and some haven't moved at all, according to the weekly survey by Freddie Mac. "Mortgage rates were mixed on news that December's leading indicators, a measure of future e...
02/12/2007
Whether you're getting ready to put your home on the market or you simply want to get a fresh start in 2007 -- clearing clutter is the answer. Your REALTOR® will tell you when they show buyers a cluttered home, no matter how lovely it could be, prospective buyers just can't picture it and will u...
02/12/2007
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