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Check out the Shared Items that I have posted under John’s Shared Google Reader. These are articles that I believe are beneficial to all of our Clients and Business Partners. Enjoy and we at The Providence Group hope that all of you have a Happy and Healthy New Year. Happy New Year, John, Karen and […]
How to Apply Lessons Learned from the Great Depression from wikiHow – The How to Manual That You Can Edit Recent economic times may mirror what American grandparents or great-grandparents went through in the Great Depression. While this time may be a challenge, it may be an opportunity to look back and learn how previous […]
Short Sale Essentials A Short Sale is a carefully agreed upon sale of a property where a lender is willing to accept less than the amount owed on it because the borrower, due to an acceptable hardship, is unable to make payments. For homeowners, there are only 23 universally “acceptable hardships” that cause “unexpected” financial crisis […]
Georgia’s prolonged and severe housing downturn has nearly run its course. Sales of new homes will bottom out in the final quarter of 2008, and sales of existing homes will bottom in the first quarter of 2009. New home sales will lead the turnaround because builders have been quicker to cut prices than homeowners. Spending […]
Remodeling Magazine’s annual report shows that maintenance-related projects and moderately priced upgrades are providing stable paybacks, even in a slower market. Despite home price drops in many cities, remodeling projects are holding their own as a way for owners to add value. Many people are wondering where their money will be safest during these uncertain […]
94% of the 52m homes that do have a mortgage are current with their payments Over the past 100 years, there have been 11 recessions and 3 depressions. Each of the recessions lasted an average of 11 months. During those periods, eight times as many millionaires were made than during the other 84 years of […]
Natural Does Not Mean “Good For You” By: Diana Mirkin, RD., L.D. Smart consumers know that “All Natural” on a food label doesn’t mean it’s nutritious or healthful. The list of ingredients on just about any processed food is likely to include either “natural flavors”, “artificial flavors”, or both. Many manufacturers try to use only […]
When those of us who are now parents of teens were teens ourselves, the way we communicated with our parents was either face to face (often at the dinner table), from a pay phone, or from a phone wired to a wall. Now our children are able to “IM” us, text message us, e-mail us, or phone us from the middle of a field three states away. My, how times have changed!
by Steve Friedman, Vice President of Sunshine Mortgage Corporation By now, everyone in America is familiar with the subprime mortgage meltdown and its after-effects on the housing market. As discussions arise, there is a tendency to point the finger at mortgage companies and loan officers for making ‘bad loans’. While some companies may have promoted […]