Fewer homes are selling because of volatile prices and subprime uncertainties, pushing up rents from San Francisco to Baltimore.
Many potential first-time home buyers these days are waiting to see how the national housing slowdown, the local market bubble and problems in the subprime lending industry pan out before committing to a mortgage.
In cities such as [...]
Tips for renters dealing with a foreclosed property:
Q: How does a tenant know if a landlord is being foreclosed on?
A: Landlords are not required to notify tenants. The bank must post a notice on the property within 15 days of advertising a foreclosure sheriff’s sale in the local newspaper. The county can verify whether [...]
Here are some of the funniest or oddest men and women toilet signs.
Built in 1912, the pint-size “Little House” features one bedroom, a kitchen with folding table and chairs, a living room and a full, if narrow, bathroom. With a living area of just 300 square feet, it was bought and renovated this year, and is back on the market for C$173,000 ($172,000).
Little Known Facts
Year built: [...]
Fizber.com has developed an innovative Ecology tool that allows house-hunters to view sources of air, water and noise pollution in a neighborhood.
For people with no place to live, the foreclosure epidemic has provided a temporary relief from life on the streets. Squatters have been taking over houses that have been left vacant due to foreclosure, and their presence has sparked a great deal of controversy.
In many areas around the country, there are now more empty houses [...]
They enter through a broken first-floor window each night to sleep on a moldy bed in the abandoned four-family house at 827 Main Street, part of a new generation of squatters emboldened by America’s housing foreclosure crisis. For squatters, foreclosed homes like this are like a camp-ground with free camping.
Squatting is on the rise across [...]
What is wrong with our economy? I think the foundation of the economy is real estate, and values are at 50 percent to 65 percent of what they were last year, not selling and creating a tax shortfall.
After I put a pen and paper to it, I realized the math doesn’t add up. The cost [...]
Fizber.com is offering FREE home listings on their web site.
As the real estate market tightens across the U.S., Fizber.com is now offering free home listings to help home sellers save money in a down real estate market.
What You Get For FREE:
Listing on Fizber with up to 20 Photos
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The Field Asset Services (FAS), a company that works together with lenders and banks to prepare homes that are in foreclosure for sale, has hit the wrong unit on a condo in Stockton, CA. FAS was supposed to inspect the unit 232, and instead they entered and re-keyed unit 2 where Ruth Anderson lives.
Ruth Anderson [...]