New rules for home appraisers implemented a few months ago following the housing market meltdown are causing buyers/sellers, realtors, home builders and mortgage companies further pain in the already depressed housing market. Not only are appraisal...
Topics: Real Estate and Mortgages

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I have been a big fan of ultra-discount brokers Zecco and TradeKing , primarily because of their low trading costs and easy to use online brokerage platform. However it looks the low cost broker wars have intensified with a strong new player in the...
Topics: Saving and Investing ideas

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I recently went to a ball game in my hometown and had a great time watching the local team win. However one thing I have noticed for the longest time is the rising price of things sold at the ball games and I am sure at many other sporting events. From..
Topics: Personal Finance and Money

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CBS news reports that according to a recent journal article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, it is possible to use publicly available data on state and date of birth to predict someone's Social Security number,...
Topics: Personal Finance and Money

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We have all read about and surely experienced the ever increasing fees and charges that banks and other financial institutions charge us. In the US alone, $36 billion in bank fees were charged last year to consumers. Late fees, loan-origination fees,...
Topics: Personal Finance and Money

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