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Interest on 30-year fixed home loans dropped below the 5 percent threshold this past week, reported Freddie Mac. The rate slipped to 4.97 percent after averaging 5.01 percent the previous week and 5.16 percent a year ago. Long-term mortgage interest set a record low of 4.71 percent in early December and has hovered near [...]

Goal: Help Our Community How: Give Easter Seals $100 Million

Good news: Thanks to your efforts, the CENTURY 21® System raised nearly $2.1 million for Easter Seals in 2009!
Great news: The CENTURY 21 System has now raised over $100 million for Easter Seals! This is a testament to the generosity and [...]

10 Most Desirable Features in New Homes
A new RISMedia article by Steve Kerch (“Top 10 Must-Have Features in Today’s New Homes”) summarizes consumer reports recently released at the NAHB International Builders Show in Las Vegas. One survey, by AVID Ratings Co., solicited home buyer preferences, revealing “10 ‘must’ features in new homes”:

Large kitchens, [...]

Long-term mortgage rates fell for the third straight week, pushing the average rate on 30-year fixed home loans below 5 percent again, according to Freddie Mac. This past week, average interest on 30-year mortgages was 4.99 percent, compared to 5.06 percent the previous week and 5.16 percent a year ago. Rates on 15-year [...]

The below link is to the latest letter from HUD involving forestalling foreclosures. It defines terms used in deciding those that can benefit. If you are in the position of being late with your mortgage payments you need to check with your servicer what options are open to you. Don’t wait on them to [...]

I FIND IT INTERESTING THAT A HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL CAN SEE THE PROBLEM, BUT OUR SOCIETY CANNOT.  IF I OFFEND ANYONE BY THIS, I REALLY DON’T APOLOGIZE.  

Subject:   Tennessee Football

This is a statement that was read over the PA system at the football game at Roane County High School [...]

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Count down has begun. Each day means fewer days to meet the closing deadline to take advantage of the tax credit. So please don’t wait!

Need more information click on items below

001_government_affairs_tax_credit_brochure_052709.pdf
profile-of-a-first-time-homebuyer-checklist.pdf

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To realize The value of a sister/brother     Ask  someone     Who doesn’t have one.       To realize     The  value of ten years:     Ask  a newly     Divorced  couple.         To  realize     The  value [...]

New Home Sales Are Up
The Commerce Department reports that new-home sales grew
in July at the fastest pace in 10 months. Volume
climbed 9.6 percent — the most since February 2005 — to an
annual rate of 433,000, topping economists’ estimates of
390,000.

Also, the median price of a new home slipped 0.1 percent from
June to $210,000; and the inventory [...]

I did not know this but I usually roll windows down and let air blow through the car before turning a/c on anyway.
Car A/C (Air Conditioning) MUST READ!!!
Please do NOT turn on A/C as soon as you enter the car. Open the windows after you enter your car and turn ON the air-conditioning [...]