BY: Leanne Potts
Tax season is upon us once again, and to make it even more interesting this year, the tax code has changed — along with the rules about tax deductions for homeowners. The biggest change? Many homeowners who used to write off their property taxes and the interest ...
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Baking soda is a wondrous product that has a lot of versatile uses, like treating heartburn, white clothes maintenance, and now, the latest studies have discovered that this incredible ingredient can eliminate even 96% fruit and vegetable pesticides.
A group of researchers from the Massachusetts University, carried ...
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VIA HousingWire.com BY Kelsey Ramírez
Consumers’ assessment of their current conditions remained at a 16-year high even as their confidence in the future edged higher, according to the Consumer Confidence Survey conducted by The Conference Board by Nielsen, a provider of information and analytics around what consumers buy and ...
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VIA The Motley Fool BY Sean Williams
Whether you realize it or not, your credit score and credit report will play an important role in your life -- and I'm not just talking about your ability to get a home loan or open a new credit card. Though most Americans ...
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by: BRANDON TURNER via Entrepreneur.com
You work hard for your money, but does your money work hard for you? When you store your cash under your mattress (or in a bank if you aren't a weirdo), it will produce next to nothing. However, when you put money into ...
by: Joe O’Boyle via Time.com/Money
For many individuals, their house represents one of the largest assets in their portfolio. Yet hanging on to a home in retirement, especially one still requiring mortgage payments, may drain your budget.
Planning for your future mortgage expenses today can go a long ...
by: Kelsey Ramírez via HousingWire.com
After a strong jobs report for July that beat economists’ expectations, mortgage rates are climbing up yet again, after a drastic drop last week back to near all-time lows.
“A surprisingly strong July jobs report showed 255,000 jobs added and 0.3 ...
by: RealtorMag.realtor.org
Many economists saw their predictions of higher interest rates and stronger economic growth shattered this year, mainly due to global economic uncertainty which was then heightened by June's Brexit vote in the U.K.
Instead, the U.S is currently experiencing low interest rates and ...
by: Judy Dutton via Realtor.com
Closing costs are the fees paid to third parties that help facilitate the sale of a home, and they vary widely by location. But as a rule, you can estimate that they typically total 2% to 7% of the home’s purchase price. So ...
by: Stacy Johnson via MoneyTalkNews.com
My FICO credit score is a perfect 850. Here’s how I did it, without resorting to all sorts of tricky maneuvers.
These days the web is full of stories about how to massage your credit history and score to look your best to ...