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You Trade-In Your Car…Why Not Your Home?

Posted August 5, 2009 - 09:00 by Paul Michael

Real Estate and Housing

home trade-in

Here’s a question for you that has been bugging me for years; why can’t home-builders follow the auto dealer’s classic model of old for new, and let people trade-in their old homes for new ones?

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Recession Journal Part I: 'Fast' Money in the '09

Posted January 5, 2009 - 16:11 by Jabulani Leffall

Personal Finance, Budgeting

Forget about the fact that it's a recession. What you do now determines where you will be when the graph trends up again. What if you stopped dropping duckets like you dropped weight from dispensing with carbs? What if you misered up, stored and did without for say just one week or one two-week interval every month? What do you think of that 'Fast Money?'

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Asset Allocation for All Markets

Posted October 19, 2008 - 03:09 by Nora Dunn

Investment

different piles

Achieving the right asset allocation can be like groping around in the dark (and not in a fun kind of way!) if you don’t know where to begin. This article will help you to determine the proper asset allocation for your money.

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Your equity was always imaginary

Posted March 12, 2008 - 05:13 by Philip Brewer

Real Estate and Housing

Productive land

You used to hear the term "land rich, cash poor" for people who owned valuable land but didn't have quite enough money to make ends meet.  It's an expression that dates back to the days when property was the only kind of real wealth there was.  It's kind of fallen out of fashion of late.  But as property values keep falling, it's worth thinking about the ways in which land is wealth.

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