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Almost always, according to a nationally representative survey conducted by Consumer Reports. When shopping or paying for goods and services in the previous six months, 66 percent of consumers tried to negotiate for a better deal at least once, and 88 percent of those negotiators scored a better deal at least once. Click Here to read the entire article
Do you haggle? Tell us about your most recent success.
Millions of families face the loss of their homes over the next few years. While there is a long list of complicated and sometimes convoluted proposals to address the country’s foreclosure crisis, there is a simple solution: Congress and the Obama Administration can give families facing foreclosure the right to rent their homes at the market rate for a substantial period of time. Click Here to read the rest of the article by Dean Baker for Center for Economic and Policy Research
This idea has sparked fierce debate on the Internet. What do YOU think of it?
Among other things on Time magazine’s list are high-end clothes, computer memory, country club membership, and housing. To see the entire list, plus the whys and the wherefores, Click Here
Have you recently bought anything on the magazine’s list? Did you get a good deal?.
Click here to see Sara Lin’s article in the WSJ on some very pricey homes for sale that are within a hop, skip, and a jump from streets like Rodeo Drive.
Are you selling a home that’s close to a cool shopping area? Tell us about it.
Click Here to read Top 10’s 100% independent, non-biased selection of the Top Ten “Coolest” Beach Homes in the entire U.S; selected after tons of research looking at hundreds of websites and talking to real estate agents to identify potential Top 10 beach home candidates (homes currently on the market at the time of publication). These are all independent choices from Top 10, and they have no connection with the listing agent or seller.
Do you know of another property that qualifies as one of the coolest beach houses in the USA…or elsewhere? If so, post the details on our blog.
In their eagerness to conserve water and escape the drudgery of yardwork, many California homeowners are replacing their H20-guzzling lawns with artificial turf. Despite worries about its high lead content, more and more consumers are willing to try artificial turf. Although it remains a small part of the overall market for U.S. lawns, the industry says it has grown by an estimated 20 percent annually for the past five years, according to Emmet Pierce for the San Diego Union-Tribune. Click Here to read the full article and to see pictures.
Do you have fake grass? What have you found to be the advantages and disadvantages?
Americans have not seen a boring housing market since the last millennium. You know – the average, ordinary kind of market where supply just about matches demand, prices are steady, and real estate ceases to be a topic of daily conversation. Instead, we’ve had six years of upside craziness followed by three years of downside terror. Now we’re in a tug-of-war between those who think we’ve finally found a bottom and those who are convinced that the overhang of unsold homes is going to push prices considerably lower. Click Here to read the entire article from BusinessWeek.
What do you think the price of your house will be in 2012? Higher than right now? Lower? The same?
President Barack Obama hasn’t even signed the “Cash for Clunkers” legislation into law yet, but already criminals and some unscrupulous car dealers are using it to dupe consumers, according to Peter Valdes-Dapena for CNNMoney. Click Here to read the entire article.
Once the program is signed into law, will you participate? If so, what will you be trading in and what will you buy?
Having a backyard barbecue and wondering whether to use charcoal or propane? A new study in the journal Environmental Impact Assessment Review compares the two and finds that propane, a fossil fuel, is better for the environment than charcoal, a biofuel. Propane, the author says, has a carbon footprint just above one-third of charcoal’s, according to Moises Valasquez-Manoff for The Christian Science Monitor To read the entire article, Posted in Living Green | No Comments »
If an e-mail popped up in your inbox promising a house for $100, you’d expect to see it sent from a guy in Nigeria asking you to wire him several thousand dollars first. But this depressed housing market dream is real. Read the Rest of this CNN article by Ashley Fantz.
Do you know anyone who had the gumption to take on a similar project? Tell us the story.