I’m lucky this never happened to me. We did have two scares from our son when he was 12 to 14 years old and he burned a patch of the rug upstairs in their gameroom area and he couldn’t successfully hide it. Then there was the time we came home from shopping and we see [...]
Ethiopia seems to be best known for images of starvation on our TV screens, but the largest monolithic churches in the world, carved from stone, can be found in Lalibela Ethiopia. They are a fascinating combination of world travel, semi-permanent real estate and Christianity!
This information is from the First American Home Buyers Protection Corporation’s website and you can find them on the Internet at www.firstam.com/warranty .
You’ll be seeing posts from their Area Manager, Julie Stokes, with helpful hints and ideas. You can reach her at jstokes@firstam.com or 800-698-0422, ext. 6786, if you have questions about the benefits of a home buyers [...]
We all seem to forget these little energy saving pointers, until the cold air is blowing through the cracks in doors and from our electrical outlets.
During the cold winter months, homeowners across the country find it necessary to turn on their heaters to keep warm. You can save energy when heating your home by taking [...]
I know many of you, Buyers and Sellers, are worried about the economy and the market and you may be wondering whether now is a good time to put your home up for sale.
Because fewer Sellers are putting their homes on the market due to the economy and winter season, there are fewer homes to compete with. [...]
The Bank of England lowered their interest rate to 1.5%…lowest since 1694.
In a historic move, the Bank of England lowered their benchmark interest
rate by .50% to 1.5%. Now get this - the benchmark rate has NEVER been this
low since King William III founded the central bank in 1694 to fund a war
against Louis XIV’s France. [...]
Although many of the lakes in the Beijing area are not fit for human consumption or even irrigation (”…Water from the Guanting reservoir, Beijing’s fourth largest source of drinking water source, is not fit for human consumption or even irrigation, according to a report from the city’s environment watchdog….The report also said nearly half of [...]