Cities Where The Recession Is Easing
In these 10 metros, jobs are projected to grow and the housing crisis is stabilizing.
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Step up your style
You walk up them, you walk down them, perhaps countless times a day. When you look down, though, do you see any sign of your personal style? Staircases, once decorated with detailed, elaborate runners in the Victorian era, have been forgotten in many homes, or at least bumped down on the decorating to-do list.
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Listed: Early 20th-Century Hybrid
This unusual vintage home has unique features as well as some modern updates.
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America’s 25 Richest Counties
The country’s fattest paychecks are brought home to these high-end suburbs.
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Renovator’s apprentice
It’s a simple premise: get into a taxi and answer trivia questions. Get them right and win some cash; get them wrong and you might have to walk the rest of the way.Adam Growe is the host of this hilarity on Cash Cab (airing on the Discovery Channel).
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Credit check
Because you have to pay interest on a loan over years and decades, that means you will end up paying a lot more money for your house or condo than what you paid the seller.You have to take advantage of every break to reduce your mortgage balance and the amount of time it will take to pay off your home. And that means it’s a good idea to take a good hard look at that loan at least once a year.
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Extra space, extra income
Building a secondary suite in your house can be a cost-effective way to provide accommodation for a family member or to create new rental space.
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Trade Facebook for face-to-face
Today we spend most of our time in front of keyboards, steering wheels and cell phones, with less face-to-face socializing. Social networking sites and online dating services have brought us closer together yet, in many ways, farther apart. Why not create the opportunity to revive your social skills by throwing a dinner party?
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Roots and shoots
If you are like me, your thoughts have already turned to what you will be planting this year. The seed catalogues are out and pages have been dog-eared. I could spend several paycheques on the new seeds and plants I find in these catalogues and the nursery in the spring. But I have found with a little early planning I can save on my budget by taking cuttings from existing plants in my house.
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Listed: Turn-Of-The-Century Gold Coast Home
An historic, amenity-packed carriage house in a suburban New York inlet is priced at 1.75 million.
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