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Tuesday, January 31, 2012 1:31 PM

IRS Audit Red Flags: The Dirty Dozen

Ever wonder why some tax returns are eyeballed by the Internal Revenue Service while most are ignored? The IRS audits only slightly more than 1% of all individual tax returns annually. The agency doesn't have enough personnel and resources to examine
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Friday, December 16, 2011 12:52 PM

5 Things To Do NOW If You Want to Buy A Home In 2012

If you’re one of the millions who has an eye on 2012 as the year in which you’ll buy a home (first or not), here are five things you can do now to put yourself on the right path: 1. Check your credit. Take my word for it: there is no bad surprise
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Friday, November 11, 2011 2:32 PM

Buy a HUD Home for Only $100 Down?

In several states, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is offering home buyers foreclosed homes with only a $100 down payment, in trying to unload some of its inventory. The incentive runs until October 2012. To qualify, purchasers must
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Monday, September 19, 2011 2:09 PM

Big Savings for Buyers: Rates Reach New Record-Lows

For the second straight week, mortgage rates reached another milestone, with 30-year and 15-year fixed-rate mortgages hitting record lows again, Freddie Mac reports in its weekly mortgage market survey. "Continued investor concerns over the state
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Monday, September 05, 2011 4:27 PM

Gov’t Criticizes Banks for Failing More Home Owners

Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase, two of the country’s largest lenders, are not doing enough to help home owners avoid foreclosure, the Treasury Department said Thursday. Many home owners who have been eligible for loan modifications have been
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Monday, August 22, 2011 7:05 PM

Mortgage Rates Reach All-Time Lows Again

--> Ongoing economic concerns continued to push mortgage rates to new lows, as 30-year and 15-year mortgage rates took another dip, pushing home affordability even higher, Freddie Mac reports in its weekly mortgage market survey. 30-year fixed-rate mortgages:
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Saturday, July 23, 2011 1:03 PM

5 Surprising Credit Report Errors You Must Fix

In a recent study, 19 percent of American consumers who reported finding an error in their credit reports opted not to dispute the error, even when they were offered $5 to file the dispute! Why not? Well, some said they thought the error was too minor
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Saturday, July 23, 2011 11:28 AM

Mortgage Rates Mostly Hold Steady This Week

Mortgage rates continue to hover around yearly lows and were mostly unchanged this week, amid mixed economic and housing reports, Freddie Mac reports in its latest mortgage market survey for the week ending July 21. "Although both the overall producer
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Saturday, July 23, 2011 11:26 AM

Property Tax Woes Hurting Local Government Budgets

--> Property taxes haven’t been raised fast enough by many local governments, who are now feeling the squeeze in their budgets. Property tax revenues have decreased for two consecutive quarters, which hasn’t happened since 1963, according
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Thursday, June 30, 2011 12:19 PM

Mortgage Firms Easing Standards

Seeking to counter a sharp contraction in origination volume, some mortgage lenders are easing underwriting guidelines slightly. The changes include scaling back credit score thresholds for FHA-backed loans as well as accepting higher loan-to-value and
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Friday, February 11, 2011 10:07 AM

Most Metro Areas See Home Prices Stabilizing

Home sales rebounded in 49 states during the fourth quarter with 78 markets – just over half of the available metropolitan areas – experiencing price gains from a year ago, while most of the rest saw price weakness, according to the latest
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Monday, December 27, 2010 2:47 PM

Long-Term Rates Drop Back a Bit

Long-term mortgage rates dipped a bit in the week before Christmas, according to Freddie Mac. The mortgage giant reported that interest on 30-year, fixed loans averaged 4.81 percent — down from 4.83 percent the week before and 5.05 percent a year
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Monday, November 08, 2010 12:28 PM

Fed's Aggressive Policy Sparks Critics

Is history is going to repeat itself? When the Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that it intended to buy $600 billion in Treasury securities through June, it also signaled that it could make more purchases after that if unemployment remained too high
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Thursday, October 28, 2010 1:59 PM

Mortgage Bankers Predict Rising Rates in 2011

Barring any big announcement from the Federal Reserve, rates on 30-year fixed–rate mortgages will climb to 5.1 percent by the end of 2011, the Mortgage Bankers Association predicts. Jay Brinkmann, chief economist of the MBA, said he expects applications
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010 11:05 AM

Georgia Top 10 for retirees

Real Estate GEORGIA State Income Tax: 1% - 6% State Sales Tax: 4% (localities can add their own) Inheritance Tax: No The Peach State is a peachy tax environment for retirees. Social Security income is exempt, and so is up to $35,000 per person of most
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