HUD Forced Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac To Increase Loans For Mobile Homes
Still thinking government isn’t to blame for the economic fiasco we find ourselves in? Consider that in 2004 (via Russell Roberts) ... into going back to 95% financing of cheap, manufactured homes. “We are teaming up with lenders ... as HUD-code houses, manufactured homes are the only ones in the country built to a single, national [more...]
Date: 2008-09-29 00:11:09
Blog posts
(440) |
Videos
(151)
World's Most Expensive Stadium - $1.5 Billion
The Brits get all the nice things, don't they? ... houses the track and field events, but comparitively that stadium was 'cheap' compared [more...]
Date: 2008-08-19 18:33:33
Overpopulation and Oil: What the Talking Heads Don’t Talk About
Sometime back on National Public Radio, ... . Petroleum is humanity’s source of nitrogen. Increasingly, we’re aware that it doesn’t just heat our houses ... a dollar to pump a barrel of oil out of the ground. Cheap petroleum gave rise to an a sustained era [more...]
Date: 2008-07-14 16:33:48
Should banks be lending to house buyers?
Should the UK government really be encouraging households to borrow money to buy houses in the current climate? ... ? And instead of exhorting the banks to offer cheap finance so households can saddle themselves [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 13:55:29
Giant Snake-Shaped Generators Could Capture Wave Power
Roland Piquepaille writes "UK researchers have developed a prototype of a future giant rubber tube which could catch energy from sea waves ... . An Anaconda would deliver an output power of 1MW (enough to power 2,000 houses). These devices would be deployed in groups of 20 or even more providing cheap electricity without harming [more...]
Date: 2008-07-07 00:33:00
Closing Bell: Bulls defy economic concerns as Dow rises
Closing Bell: Bulls defy economic concerns as Dow rises Posted Aug 14th 2008 4:15PM by Jon Ogg Filed under: Hansen Natural (HANS), Alcoa Inc (AA) ... out on the calendar. The good news in housing is that existing houses are finally moving, but the bad ... Stewart herself and said the stock is cheap at $8.00. [more...]
Date: 2008-08-14 21:53:16
Giant rubber snakes to capture wave power?
Giant rubber snakes to capture wave power? Posted by Roland Piquepaille @ 9:27 am Categories: Energy & Environment, Science & Nature, ... (enough to power 2,000 houses). These devices would be deployed in groups of 20 or even more providing cheap electricity without harming our environment. But read more… How the Anaconda captures wave [more...]
Date: 2008-07-06 16:27:52
Shanghai - Tai Kang Artistic Lane
Hopping off the South Station of Shanghai, I hailed a taxi and made my way to He Fei Road, next to Dan Shui Road. Taxi in Shanghai was surprisingly cheap, despite it being a metropolitan city. Getting ... , was that there were still many houses that were occupied here. On one road, you find fancy [more...]
Date: 2008-07-07 11:25:06
Demand for Tata Motors Slumps, Nano Stays in Neutral
Tata Motors, India’s largest auto manufacturer and would-be maker of the ultra-cheap Nano and the electric Indica, ... year, driven by increased consumer spending on houses and cars. With the Think City car making [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 21:00:56
Don’t buy a house that you like
One of the most important questions people are asking themselves these days when buying a house is, “Will I lose money if I have to sell it? ... . Of course some people will still be buying houses, regardless. For those people who are buying a house ... be something you can correct with landscaping. Bright gold switchplates changed out is simple, cheap [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 21:57:31
Bailouts Aggravate Economic Crisis
In the Washington Post, Peter Schiff describes how politicians spawned the current financial crisis ... buyers to avail themselves of these seeming benefits. As monetary policy caused houses to become more expensive, it also temporarily provided buyers with the means to overpay. Cheap money gave rise [more...]
Date: 2008-10-16 17:53:09
When the Truth Finally Hits Home
I am finally stressed out about the economy.I found myself awake at 1: ... . The construction companies are slowing down, nobody is building houses or remodeling like they were two years ... the day away. I could search for cheap do-it-yourself projects and put on my tool belt.What I can't [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 23:40:00
O.C. homebuying rises for 5th straight month
November vs. OC history Month’s sales ‘88-’07 avg. ‘07 ‘08 ‘08 vs. avg. January 2,737 2,400 1,286 -53.0% February 2,838 2,449 1,471 -48 ... s final stats from last month shows Orange County homebuying totaled 2,177 houses, condos and new ... down 31% in a year Don’t forget … Fed will promote cheap money ‘for some time’ SoCal inflation [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 19:48:27
how to take photos of objects at home
taking photos of your goodies - either to sell them online or to feature on your site - takes a bit of getting used to. tips: 1 ... - (drawings in motion shows you how to make a really simple and cheap collapsible light box at home via ... on setting up a mini studio in your house - making use of natural light by using a white backdrop [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 01:00:10
Time to Refinance?
It’s a good thing I don’t have a job! Or else I’d be refinancing again… I think in the past 7 years, we’ve had 3 houses, and at least 8 mortgages! ... . Local banks and credit unions. I found a dirt cheap rate for some friends in the Milwaukee area [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 14:29:45
The Danger of Government Guarantees
By Fred Thompson (emphasis mine): I’ll bet it came as a surprise to most folks that the financial stability of the world as we know it depends upon ... and Freddie’s tab, one that could make the $124 billion S&L bailout of the late 1980s look cheap. So how did ... laws that made it easier for hopeful home-buyers to buy houses … even when they couldn’t [more...]
Date: 2008-09-16 15:47:44
Russian Lawmakers Vote to Recognize Breakaway Georgia Regions
Russian Lawmakers Vote to Recognize Breakaway Georgia Regions Bloomberg | Both houses of Russia’s parliament unanimously called on President ... ! FREE HOME ELECTRICITY: HOW TO BUILD VERY CHEAP SOLAR PANEL and WIND MILL for Your Own Back Yard [more...]
Date: 2008-08-25 12:58:08
New Computer Prize Draws computing Fans To Raffle
Being that times are a bit tough, it's proving increasingly difficult to meet the challenges of the Christmas Season for The HeliOS Project ... , it ain't too rough on the eyes. It houses a 160 gig hard drive which isn't too shabby since most ... you know...those cheap so-and-so's)However, we do have folks entering the drawing that are not particularly [more...]
Date: 2008-11-30 03:38:00
Only the BNP will safeguard British jobs
AS THE latest unemployment figures depressingly indicate, ... stays in the European Union, there is nothing that the Government can do to stop this influx of cheap ... and that means growing crops in our fields and not concreting them over to build houses for unwanted [more...]
Date: 2008-11-12 07:29:26
Baskets Keep My Clutter Sane
Hi again! I’m Jaimie, aka paidtwice, and I like stuff ... to this organizational system is my use of baskets. A few pretty and decorative ones, but mostly just cheap white ... of things. As some examples, in my kitchen cupboard, I have a basket that houses all the sippy cup [more...]
Date: 2008-10-16 11:07:03
Getting Real & Writing my own
I mentioned in my last post, that I would love to be a published author some day in the future (i.e. release a printed, paperback book) ... . Considering that this blog currently houses almost 700 posts, I do think that there’s some value ... a free online copy, a cheap PDF e-Book and then a printed paperback (via Lulu). Since this initiative [more...]
Date: 2008-11-01 11:19:35
More Americans Want Clean Energy, Not Oil Drilling
Prices at the pump may be falling but no one expects the days of cheap oil to return for long ... for energy efficient cars, and ways to make our houses and offices more energy efficient. Where [more...]
Date: 2008-12-05 18:12:57
Excitement! A challenging budget!!
I have been so excited about the weirdest thing the past few days: a budget.My husband and I are both very cheap conservative spenders ... a bunch to two other mothers, too!!). The only furniture in our entire house that we bought new [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 06:12:20
Transcend's JetFlash V85C USB Drive shimmers and shines Swarosvki style
If you are seriously considering buying a USB drive then Transcend is the way to go ... . The outside is beautiful as Swarosvki crystals adorn it. The luxurious chrome casing houses a retractable USB ... is the perfect blend between style and function. It won't come cheap, but nothing of superior quality ever [more...]
Date: 2008-09-19 12:24:24
LibraryThing Replaces Social Role of Local Bookstores
Harry W. Schwartz, my favorite independent bookseller from Milwaukee, Wisconsin is closing up shop ... t begin and end with cheap books mailed to your doorstep. It is evidence of our society trading ... -funded libraries — even tea houses and book clubs. This makes me think… why couldn’t we use the same [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 17:38:25
What was in the box
Three days ago I let my art director husband be a guest blogger here and he rhapsodized about his favorite bookstore in LA, Hennessy & Ingalls ... tells the stories of ten local houses and their non-conformist owners – some famous landmarks ... moving in in droves, taking advantage of cheap rents and the city’s youthful, anything goes [more...]
Date: 2008-07-04 09:44:11
'If you make $2,500 a month, you certainly should be out there looking to buy a home'
From the San Diego Union-Tribune: Consumer belt-tightening has led some diners to curtail their visits to fancier eateries, ... those who qualify, Carroll said home prices are cheap and mortgage rates are low: "If you make ... up investor pools to buy a lot of houses, and I mean a lot of houses," said Mike Zagaris, president of PMZ [more...]
Date: 2008-09-10 20:52:00
‘Tapped Out and Burned Out’
Wilbur Ross, the billionaire, has put it best in a recent Bloomberg article ... , no matter how much cheap money is out there for institutions to lend, the borrowing public is tapped ... issues: jobs and houses.” U.S. employers cut 62,000 jobs in June, the sixth straight monthly decline [more...]
Date: 2008-07-07 15:00:33
Value Shopping Doesn’t Mean Buying Cheap - A Cultural Shift To Quality
Read more of this story » Do you sell nothing but LEED certified houses? Do you work flexible hours and have incredible freedom? ... , the third largest lobbyist organization in the country (in terms of spending since 1989), tends ... classes from PG&E to learn how to help homeowners go green, a service he plans to offer to customers [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 21:39:29
Go To Them: New Energy Jobs and the Populism We Need
Cross-posted from the Breakthrough Blog. It’s not just about framing—“new energy jobs” are the best and only shot at bringing down the political ... drill here, now” and in the sparring over loafers and houses, we see a political establishment ... of our economy. And what do most Americans say they want, now? Cheap energy and a healthy economy [more...]
Date: 2008-08-26 16:26:31
raw_input
I’m trying to tally the uses of the phrase “middle class” in Britain ... it became obsolete. The middle class owns houses, it doesn’t own industry, except in the highly abstract ... we’re getting somewhere? But isn’t that just a cheap version of the old distinction between [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 16:47:13
Blogging Around the World….Literally
This post was guest blogged by Gary Arndt of Everything-Everywhere ... find wifi or at least cheap internet cafes ($1/hour or less). In the Marshall Islands, I went ... Korea has 100mb connections to most houses.) Often [more...]
Date: 2008-12-06 11:00:35
Construction activity down despite cheap steel
... at the site in order to secure the land. Currently, only renovation of houses and bungalows [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 10:23:20
Friday Links - 12-11-08
Copyright RealCentralVA.com, LLC. If you are not reading this at RealCentralVA.com the site you see is likely stealing content ... that you get to sign up for only if you think it will make selling houses easier. It should be code. For years, developers have been gobbling open space, silting streams, causing erosion and building cheap [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 13:32:12
Industrial sized homes
Industrial sized homes in industrial sized neighborhoods ... . It was through the use of cheap fossil fuels, and the production of products that enabled a workforce ... impossible, then perhaps making things such as houses smaller and more efficient, using less resource, only [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 18:15:00
Controversy on 6th Street, Part I
Controversy on 6th Street, Part I ZMan 9 hours ago Region: ... , a lot of opportunities, but no decent, cheap places to live. In response to the needs of the workers and the factory, over six dozen row houses went up. This would work well for decades until [more...]
Date: 2008-10-25 21:25:57
Cheap Airfares Help Make Affordable Vacations
If you are trying to make flight plans to get you to the relatives house for a special occasion or a holiday event, making arrangements for a long awaited dream vacation, or simply needing to book a flight for a quick business trip, then finding cheap airfares is always exciting when air travel is in the future [more...]
Date: 2008-11-28 11:42:37
Famous Last Words
FRIDAY: "I don't think I've got the nesting thing as bad this time, you know?" "Oh yeah, you're much calmer ... us drive two states and like, four counties south to look at houses, because I thought we could cut ... and a good feeling about this one zip code, which is ridiculously extra cheap and I'm guessing [more...]
Date: 2008-09-22 19:24:16
Birds get special flight nappies
Proving there is no problem which they can't find a bizarre solution for, American inventors have created a nappy for birds ... the house, but don't want to b constantly cleaning up after them. The bird nappy - which makers say ... your sofa is cheap. The only problem is the diapered birds may want to peck their owner's eyes [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 15:32:00
Lasang Pinoy, Sundays #32: Hot Drinks
I have two favorite “hot drinks”: hot chocolate/cocoa and freshly brewed coffee ... . One of the first kitchen appliances we bought was a dirt cheap coffee maker from Walmart. Since my first cup ... when I come home for a vacation! Coffee from popular coffee houses is an occasional splurge. Starbucks [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 15:53:52
Where Are You?
Starting with some quotes from someone who has been nothing but sober and sane (Robert Shiller) when the majority of people were drunk on the notion that houses were going to make us all rich ... estate prices are going to soar soon. The real estate market is not cheap yet. It's not to where [more...]
Date: 2008-10-27 03:10:00
Investing In Real Estate In Pasadena Ca
Investing In Real Estate In Pasadena Ca December 19, 2008 | By Cheap In Uncategorized | Comments(0) Buying a home in today’s market can be a challenge, especially in California. With the house ... ; attic, roof, walls, ceilings, floors, windows, doors, foundation and basement. Getting [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 17:25:41
Recession in Four Colors: Comics and the Economy
As we’ve reported in the past, the economic recession has hit media and publishing companies hard, ... propped up the comparatively-cheap comics industry during most recessions, it makes sense why the layoffs and closings aren’t matching those of newspapers, publishing houses, or Wall Street. [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 21:15:38
Teens' abuse of pills worsens in CNY, U.S.
Teens' abuse of pills worsens in CNY, U.S. by Catie O'Toole / The Post-Standard Thursday November 06, 2008, 11: ... as a cheap and easy way to get high, said state police Trooper Jack Keller, who works with 79 school ... estate open houses to steal drugs from bathrooms, he said. [more...]
Date: 2008-11-06 17:11:21
A bulleted list of things that are going on...
I feel like I've been a bad blogger the past few days, so here's the rundown:School started. I'm reading a lot of boring stuff all the time now ... . We met w/ a realtor, we're looking at houses Sunday. Hi, American Dream? Yeah, it's us. Oh, and Economy? Thanks for screwing a bunch of homeowners to make it cheap for us! (thumbs up!)Because of the prior [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 23:44:00
Israel’s Message
Israel’s MessageIlan PappeIn 2004, the Israeli army began building a dummy Arab city in the Negev desert. It’s the size of a real city, with streets ( ... the empty houses and no doubt killing the ‘terrorists’ hiding in them.‘Gaza is the problem,’ Levy Eshkol ... , and was used merely as a pool of cheap labour; throughout the 1990s, ‘peace’ for Gaza meant [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 14:59:32
Two houses ago - bathroom
Take a look at how the bathroom looked when we viewed the house and right after we moved in. We loved the size of the room ( ... was opened against the cupboard.I painted a cheap Ikea stool white and decoupaged on some punched circles [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 21:23:00
RoofRay.com – Calculate Solar Potential
What it does The way gas prices are today, switching over to solar power will help you cut down those rising power bills ... of houses. The financial analysis part of the process is relatively quick, and provides accurate ... to the idea of solar power? Is it cheap enough to replace other fuels? Link: http://www.roofray.com [more...]
Date: 2008-08-15 17:38:00
Israel’s Message
Ilan Pappe, London Review of Books, 14 January 2009 In 2004, the Israeli army began building a dummy Arab city in the Negev desert ... troops conquer the dummy city, storming the empty houses and no doubt killing the ‘terrorists’ ... Accords, Gaza remained sealed off from Israel, and was used merely as a pool of cheap labour [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 18:10:27
Salzburg: the arrival
By David Roberts Listen Play "My Favorite Things," ... town these days: the cheap, disposable, thoughtless strip-mall-and-McMansion style. The streets in these villages are incredibly narrow, there are tons of storefronts and houses butting up against [more...]
Date: 2008-07-11 00:20:29
51 -
100
of
440
Posts
Page:
First
| <
Preceding
|
Next
>
0
|
1
|
2
