January 2012 Market Update 2012 shows signs of an improving housing market as the U.S. economy continues its forward-moving yet slow road to recovery. Although there are economists projecting housing prices will decline further, aided by distressed property sales that sell at a greater discount, these prices are expected to rebound considerably later in the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 30, 2011
Back to Basics – How to Keep Your Teen Drivers Safe If you’re like most parents with a teen about to begin driving, or who has been driving for a short time, you’re probably concerned about safety. And with good reason. New teen drivers are involved in four times more crashes than any other age [...]
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While home sales in September were down slightly from a relatively strong month in August, they were up from a year ago, giving encouraging signs of a strengthening market and potential for stabilizing, if not appreciating, home prices. These signs include an increasing demand, shown by the number of people shopping for homes, and the [...]
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Written by Ilyce Glink on November 11, 2011 When weighing your options for buying a home, you may hear the same criteria: Have you saved enough money for a down payment? Can you afford the expenses associated with owning a home? Are you going to stay in the home for a short period of time [...]
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The Providence Group welcomes Guest Blogger James Munson of Munson International. The Problem Solving Industry You’re in the problem solving game. Your clients depend on you to fix what they can’t. Sometimes, our tried and true methods of solving problems deteriorate. What do you do? Here are five ways to get the synapses firing. 1. [...]
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It’s Time to Dream Again Over the past few years the financial landscape has changed, and Americans have survived some tough times. With the many changes happening in our lives, there’s one thing that hasn’t changed our need to believe in dreams. Our belief is that now is the time to get back on track [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 15, 2011
Last Thursday, President Obama proposed a $447 billion job stimulus plan, which was larger and broader than most had expected. The program calls for tax cuts, state aid, infrastructure spending, on-the-job training, plus tax cuts for small businesses to encourage hiring and a “Helping More Americans Refinance Mortgages,” or HARP plan. There are no details [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Courtesy of Guest Author Jim Lewis of The Covenant Group, Associates of Supreme Lending. Last week was another volatile week for mortgage rates. Wall Street alternately sought risk and shunned it, causing mortgage-backed bonds to rise and fall rapidly. There was a lot to move markets, too, including banking concerns across Europe, inflation figures within [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 30, 2011
The Providence Group welcomes Guest Blogger James Munson of Munson International. His first post discusses traveling with your pet. The Road & Your Pet Taking your pets on a road trip can be an exercise in patience. At Munson International we’re in the relocation business. We’ve taken enough trips to know that a successful trip [...]
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