Lancaster Life and Home

Another Friday has come, it's time for your next helpful tip from Matt Steger, with WIN Home Inspection!  Today's tip deal with a commonly overlooked maintenance item, the chimney.  Don't forget, call Matt Steger at 717-361-9467 for all of your home inspection needs! This week's maintenance tip h...

Another Friday has come, it's time for your next helpful tip from Matt Steger, with WIN Home Inspection!  Today's tip deal with a commonly overlooked maintenance item, the chimney.  Don't forget, call Matt Steger at 717-361-9467 for all of your home inspection needs! This week's maintenance tip h...

Here is the headline from the AP Story that ran yesterday "Senators agree to extend homebuyer tax credit".  Look spretty good, doesn't it?  Reading that, you would think we were in the clear, tax credits for everyone!   Well, I hate to rain on everyone's parade, but we still have a long way to go...

According to a quick release from The National Association of Realtors today, the Senate is voting on an amendment to Extend Unemployment Insurance Benefits.  In this bill, there is an amendment titled "Dodd-Lieberman-Isakson Amendment to Extend and Expand the $8,000 First Time Homebuyer Tax Cred...

Happy Monday Everyone!  It's time once again for the newest Monday Fit Bit from Mickey Glick at Body and Soul Fitness Studio.   This week Mickey, wants you to know that back pain can be addressed through strength training: STRENGTH TRAINING 5 TIMES MORE EFFECTIVE THAN AEROBICS AGAINST LOW BACK PA...

I saw an article posted on Rismedia the other day (http://rismedia.com/2009-10-15/8000-tax-credits-hoops-frustrate-house-hunters/) that was picked up from the Orlando Sentinel.  The reporter (Mary Shanklin) titled the article "$8,000 Tax Credit's Hoops Frustrate House Hunters".  She wrote a nice ...

The 99 Cent effect, maybe you've heard of it, maybe not, but did you ever wonder why prices end in 99?  Turns out there is a proven psychological effect (dating all the way back to 1800's) with prices that end in 9.  Researchers at the Rutgers School of Business found that prices ending in .99 co...

After days on end of tech issues, my new blog consumer blog about Lancaster Pa Life and Homes is up and running!  It will have regular real estate reports, trend analysis, news and information concerning the market conditions locally and nationwide, as well as guest columnists writing about helpf...

Think we don't need government help interfering with real estate?  It's not all bad!Over the last few months the subject of government involvement in the real estate business has been debated on Active Rain at great length (talk about an understatement), and I don't expect to change the views or ...

In a recent interview with MS-NBC, the Commissioner of the FHA made some very interesting points.  A lot of this information is not widely known. Some key points that Mr. Stevens made were as follows: 1.  The FHA is not considering going to a minimum credit score formula for qualification at the ...