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Shopping And Paying Bills Online? Here's Methods To Protect Your Online Financial Identity
Shopping And Paying Bills Online? Here's Methods To Protect Your Online Financial Identity
In May 2010, Retail Sales at non-store retailers -- a category that includes Amazon and eBay -- topped $29 billion, up 16 percent from May 2009. Clearly, Americans are doing an increasing amount of shopping online. And we're paying our[…]
Source: TheMortgageUpdate -- Jerry Ortega, Mortgage Blogger
Created on: 15 Jun 2010 | 8:45 am
TheMortgageUpdate -- Jerry Ortega, Mortgage Blogger | 15 Jun 2010 | 8:45 am -
What's Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week : June 14, 2010
What's Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week : June 14, 2010
Mortgage markets posted four good days last week and one awful one. Unfortunately for rate shoppers , that one bad day outweighed the gains of the other four and mortgage rates worsened on the week overall. Despite re-touching all-time lows[…]
Source: TheMortgageUpdate -- Jerry Ortega, Mortgage Blogger
Created on: 14 Jun 2010 | 8:45 am
TheMortgageUpdate -- Jerry Ortega, Mortgage Blogger | 14 Jun 2010 | 8:45 am -
FHA Mortgage Insurance Premiums Approved To Triple In Cost
FHA Mortgage Insurance Premiums Approved To Triple In Cost
Starting sometime later this year, the monthly cost to carry an FHA-insured mortgage is expected to rise. In a near-unanimous vote, the House of Representatives gave the FHA power to raise the monthly mortgage insurance premiums it charges to its[…]
Source: TheMortgageUpdate -- Jerry Ortega, Mortgage Blogger
Created on: 11 Jun 2010 | 8:45 am
TheMortgageUpdate -- Jerry Ortega, Mortgage Blogger | 11 Jun 2010 | 8:45 am -
Bank Reposessions Reach Record Levels For The Second Straight Month
Bank Reposessions Reach Record Levels For The Second Straight Month
According to foreclosure-tracking firm RealtyTrac.com, bank repossessions reached record levels for the second straight month in May, topping 93,000 properties nationwide. As compared to May 2009, all 50 states now show an increase in annual REO activity. Data like that[…]
Source: TheMortgageUpdate -- Jerry Ortega, Mortgage Blogger
Created on: 10 Jun 2010 | 8:45 am
TheMortgageUpdate -- Jerry Ortega, Mortgage Blogger | 10 Jun 2010 | 8:45 am -
Conforming Loan Costs Are Rising, Says Freddie Mac
Conforming Loan Costs Are Rising, Says Freddie Mac
Mortgage rates may be dropping, but mortgage costs are not. According to Freddie Mac, the average required discount points on a conforming mortgage rate are higher by 0.1 percent since early-May. A "discount point" is prepaid mortgage interest; an up-front[…]
Source: TheMortgageUpdate -- Jerry Ortega, Mortgage Blogger
Created on: 9 Jun 2010 | 8:45 am
TheMortgageUpdate -- Jerry Ortega, Mortgage Blogger | 9 Jun 2010 | 8:45 am
Multi-Housing News Online
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More Bed Bugs Moving into Multifamily Properties
More Bed Bugs Moving into Multifamily Properties
New Orleans--They are exactly the kind of tenant multifamily property owners and mangers do not want: bed bugs. The presence of these microscopic creepy, reddish-brown crawlers is on the rise, as representatives of pest control company Orkin the IPM Institute[…]
Source: Multi-Housing News Online » Midwest
Created on: 7 Sep 2010 | 1:06 pm
Multi-Housing News Online » Midwest | 7 Sep 2010 | 1:06 pm -
HRI Welcomes Residents in Restored Jackson, Miss. Art Deco Tower
HRI Welcomes Residents in Restored Jackson, Miss. Art Deco Tower
Jackson, Miss.--HRI Properties’ Standard Life Apartments in downtown Jackson’s 1929 Art Deco masterpiece tower welcomed the first residents to the building after the completion of a $33.5 million restoration.
Source: Multi-Housing News Online » Midwest
Created on: 7 Sep 2010 | 12:09 pm
Multi-Housing News Online » Midwest | 7 Sep 2010 | 12:09 pm -
Google Establishes $86M Low-Income Housing Fund through U.S. Bank Subsidiary
Google Establishes $86M Low-Income Housing Fund through U.S. Bank Subsidiary
Mountain View, Calif.--Search engine giant Google has found a new vehicle for giving back to the community.
Source: Multi-Housing News Online » Midwest
Created on: 1 Sep 2010 | 9:56 am
Multi-Housing News Online » Midwest | 1 Sep 2010 | 9:56 am -
Ohio Multifamily Markets Mostly in Good Shape: Marcus & Millichap
Ohio Multifamily Markets Mostly in Good Shape: Marcus & Millichap
Cleveland--Three recent second-quarter 2010 reports on the three major Ohio multifamily markets--metro Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus--by the real estate investment specialist Marcus & Millichap paint a largely optimistic picture for the property type, though not entirely.
Source: Multi-Housing News Online » Midwest
Created on: 30 Aug 2010 | 9:29 am
Multi-Housing News Online » Midwest | 30 Aug 2010 | 9:29 am -
Web Feature: In Down Time, What Are MF Developers Doing?
Web Feature: In Down Time, What Are MF Developers Doing?
New York--Multifamily starts have hovered in the 100,000 to 142,000-range for all of this year, which isn't saying anything positive about the multifamily sector.
Source: Multi-Housing News Online » Midwest
Created on: 27 Aug 2010 | 1:18 pm
Multi-Housing News Online » Midwest | 27 Aug 2010 | 1:18 pm
Chicago Real Estate Daily
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Daley era ends: How will plans for O'Hare, Midway define his legacy?
Daley era ends: How will plans for O'Hare, Midway define his legacy?
(Crain's) — History may judge expansion of O'Hare International Airport to be one of Mayor Richard M. Daley's biggest accomplishments, even as he hands off an uncertain completion to an unknown successor.
Source: Chicago Business News
Created on: 7 Sep 2010 | 3:20 pm
Chicago Business News | 7 Sep 2010 | 3:20 pm -
Boeing subsidies ruling may come from WTO next week
Boeing subsidies ruling may come from WTO next week
(Reuters) — The World Trade Organization will release a long-awaited ruling next week on whether U.S. government support for Boeing violates global trade rules, sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
Source: Chicago Business News
Created on: 7 Sep 2010 | 3:13 pm
Chicago Business News | 7 Sep 2010 | 3:13 pm -
CF Industries' CFO retiring as part of Terra merger
CF Industries' CFO retiring as part of Terra merger
(Reuters) — CF Industries Holdings Inc. said on Tuesday its chief financial officer will leave the company later this month as the fertilizer producer integrates a $4.6 billion acquisition of rival Terra Industries.
Source: Chicago Business News
Created on: 7 Sep 2010 | 3:09 pm
Chicago Business News | 7 Sep 2010 | 3:09 pm -
Daley era ends: Business leaders brace for free-for-all
Daley era ends: Business leaders brace for free-for-all
(Crain's) — Some of Chicago's top business leaders, shocked by Mayor Richard M.
Source: Chicago Business News
Created on: 7 Sep 2010 | 2:36 pm
Chicago Business News | 7 Sep 2010 | 2:36 pm -
Boeing exec. says merger, acquisitions possible
Boeing exec. says merger, acquisitions possible
(Reuters) — Boeing Co. is "actively" looking at potential acquisition opportunities in response to a changing security environment and will not rule out a merger with another large defense contractor, Boeing's head of defense said on Tuesday.
Source: Chicago Business News
Created on: 7 Sep 2010 | 1:51 pm
Chicago Business News | 7 Sep 2010 | 1:51 pm
Chicago Tribune Real Estate
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Absentee landlord refuses to repair storm drain
Absentee landlord refuses to repair storm drain
Q. I have owned and lived in my house for 20-plus years. The duplex next door is a rental, and the owner lives in another town and doesn't do maintenance to the property until a tenant moves out or something[…]
Source: chicagotribune.com - Chicago Homes
Created on: 4 Sep 2010 | 11:00 pm
chicagotribune.com - Chicago Homes | 4 Sep 2010 | 11:00 pm -
Quiet urban setting with rooftop deck
Quiet urban setting with rooftop deck
Lexington Square rowhome appeals to newlywedsManny and Luz Aguirre, who have been married for about a year, were casually beginning their new-home search late last summer when a co-worker pointed Luz in the direction of Lexington Square in Chicago's Bridgeport[…]
Source: chicagotribune.com - Chicago Homes
Created on: 3 Sep 2010 | 9:25 am
chicagotribune.com - Chicago Homes | 3 Sep 2010 | 9:25 am -
Merit Homes cuts prices on Libertyville homes
Merit Homes cuts prices on Libertyville homes
Merit Homes has lowered pricing on two- to three-bedroom ranch and two-story homes at The Enclave at The Reserve at the Merit Club in Libertyville.
Source: chicagotribune.com - Chicago Homes
Created on: 2 Sep 2010 | 11:00 pm
chicagotribune.com - Chicago Homes | 2 Sep 2010 | 11:00 pm

