ARCHIVED BLOG POSTS
2009
Facebook to lose geography networks, add privacy features An Open Letter from Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg by Mark Zuckerberg Yesterday at 9:23pm It has been a great year for making the world more open and connected. Thanks to your help, more than 350 million people around the world are usin...
12/02/2009
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Option-ARM Borrowers Facing Resets About 93 percent of option-ARM buyers chose to pay a minimum amount less than the interest due, according to a report released last week by Standard & Poors. That means that nearly all of the 350,000 option-ARM borrowers now owe more than they owed when they fir...
12/02/2009
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Government Announces Short Sales Guidelines The U.S. Treasury Department announced new guidelines designed to make short sales go more smoothly. To qualify under these new guidelines: The property must be the home owner's principal residence. The home owner must be delinquent on the mortgage or c...
12/02/2009
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Report a Vacant Property Montgomery County, Maryland Department of Housing and Community Affairs Vacant properties pose a number of potential problems for neighborhoods. If you suspect or know that a property in your neighborhood is vacant, and not being properly monitored and maintained by the...
12/02/2009
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FHA to toughen rules for borrowers FINANCES, RISK AT ISSUEBorrowers would need 'more skin in the game' By Dina ElBoghdady Washington Post Staff Writer "The Federal Housing Administration is proposing to increase the up-front cash paid by borrowers as part of an effort to shore up the agency's fin...
12/01/2009
Home Owners, Protect Your Investment from Mold Courtesy of ARAcontentIn these difficult economic times, it has never been more important to protect what for many people is their most significant investment: their home. And one way to do that is to keep mold at bay-because not only does mold pres...
12/01/2009
