I got this from Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group/Sony Pictures today: Hancock’s Helping Hand Mortgage payoff contest was inspired by some marketing/PR executive after watching the network news the film. Hancock is a misunderstood superhero who is encouraged to improve his public image when he meets a good-hearted oh, yeah, definitely in PR public relations executive. Columbia [...]
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James Hagerty in the WSJ today writes, “No matter what Congress does, some cities will end up owning more crumbling houses as owners fail to pay taxes and do their maintenance. Taxpayers will foot the bill. The bigger question is: How can cities quickly get this property back into productive use? I have to say he’s [...]
Filed under: Foreclosure Fever | Tagged: Congress, housing, legislation, low income, moderate income, Philadelphia, projects, public | Leave a Comment »
A few weeks ago, I talked about how Nehemiah Corp. was getting a lot of heat from the feds for getting people into homes with little if any down (by having the seller pay the down payment.) In today’s Wall Street Journal, it’s revisited again, but home builders are also being taken to task. Some, [...]
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My colleague, Eve Mitchell, wrote about house-swapping, a new way of vacationing that may not cost you a bundle. In it, she says there is a level of trust involved, but many are happy with their decisions. A couple from San Francisco used www.homeforswap and traded for Paris digs, but even if you’re from the [...]
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As you might expect, those with second homes are attempting to make money by renting out their home for weeks or weekends to make some serious bank. (The Times personal finance reporter, Eve Mitchell is writing about swapping houses as a cheaper way to vacation in Monday’s issue.) On that note, the Washington Post writes about [...]
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