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Homeownership
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Books:
Strapped: Why America’s 20- and 30-Somethings Can’t Get Ahead
Strapped offers an original perspective on the obstacles facing young adults under 35 as they try to build careers, buy homes and start families. As Tamara Draut explains, getting ahead is getting harder. A college… -
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The New Complete Book of Home Buying
The New Complete Book of Home Buying can help you find the best houses and avoid the lemons in today’schanging housing market. Information is offered on how to use the Internet effectively, whether to buy… -
Books:
Neighbor Law: Fences, Trees, Boundaries & Noise
Is a neighboring business driving you crazy? Too much noise from next door? Run-off from up the hill threatening to drown your yard? Learn your rights and responsibilities with Neighbor Law, Nolo’s clear-cut, comprehensive guide… -
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Consumer/civil liberties response to housing bill
WASHINGTON, DC – October 24, 2007 - A coalition of consumer groups who work on housing and predatory lending issues released a statement today in reaction to legislation* introduced by Reps. Brad Miller (D-NC), Mel… -
Books:
Home Rich
Your home is the single most valuable thing you can own, yet making it pay can intimidate and confuse even the savviest investor. Finance expert Gerri Willis leads you step-by-step through the entire experience of… -
Vietnamese:
Keeping Your Home - Protect your investment (Vietnamese)
Những người có kế hoạch, ngân sách và dành dụm để thành công làm chủ một căn nhà sẽ có nhiều cơ hội tốt hơn để giữ được mái nhà của họ và gây dựng… -
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Successful Homeownership - Seminar Lesson Plan & Class Activities (English)
This PDF packet provides guidance for teachers and team leaders. The 20-page packet contains a detailed curriculum, classroom activities and take home worksheets. -
Outreach:
Consumer Action educates Stockton CBOs on housing issues
Consumer Action educates Stockton CBOs on housing issues. -
Press:
The new 20-year mortgage
MOST people who took out jumbo mortgages during the financial crisis got hit with high interest rates as lenders and investors recoiled from anything that seemed even remotely risky. Now that market conditions have improved,… -
Press:
Tall tales your contractor tells
Even honest contractors occasionally play a bit fast and loose with the truth. All tradesmen are looking to maximize profits and minimize hassle—and that can end up costing you extra money. So don’t take everything… -
Press:
Pondering when to reenter the housing market
In hindsight, Scott Feldman’s decision to sell his first home in late 2006 could have been a case study in a textbook called “How to Time the Real Estate Market.” Feldman, who works at a… -
Press:
Homeownership rate continues to fall
Millions of houses on the verge of foreclosure threaten to send homeownership to its lowest level in 50 years, according to new industry estimates. Fresh projections say the rate could plummet to about 62% as… -
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Keeping Your Home - Protect your investment (English)
People who plan, budget and save for successful homeownership have a much better chance of keeping a roof over their heads and building wealth as property values increase over the years. This brochure covers the… -
English:
Successful Homeownership - Leader’s Guide
Buying a home is a major achievement. But successful homeownership does not begin and end when the closing documents are signed. This Leader’s Guide provides information and background to help you teach prospective, new and… -
Spanish:
Keeping Your Home - Protect your investment (Spanish)
Las personas que planifican, hacen un presupuesto y ahorran para tener éxito como dueñas de casa tienen muchas más posibilidades de mantener su hogar e incrementar su patrimonio a medida que el valor de su… -
English:
Money Management 1-2-3: TWO: Achieving Financial Goals
The “Money Management 1-2-3: Be Smart about Money All Your Life” series focuses on basic money skills at the beginner, intermediate and advanced level. Achieving Financial Goals focuses on recovering from youthful missteps, managing family… -
Chinese:
Keeping Your Home - Protect your investment (Chinese)
那些為了成功擁有住屋而去做計劃、訂預算以及有儲蓄的人，他們會有很高的＂居者有其屋＂機會並且將在幾年之後因為物業增值而建立財富．這本手冊涵蓋了房屋業主的理財責任及經營方法、如何保持和保護個人物業，以及如何增加及保留房屋凈值． -
Korean:
Keeping Your Home - Protect your investment (Korean)
안정적인 주택 소유를 위해 계획과 예산을 세우고 저축하는 사람들은 주택을 지속적으로 소유할 가능성과 장기적인 부동산의 가치 상승에 의한 부의 축척 가능성이 높습니다. 이 소책자는 주택소유자의 재정적 책임과 그것의 관리 요령, 부동산의 관리와 보호 요령, 그리고… -
Press:
Messing with homeowners’ tax benefits to cut deficit?
Could the forthcoming report of a bipartisan presidential deficit-reduction commission - due Dec. 1 - lead to fundamental changes in the way home ownership is treated by the federal tax system? Are you kidding? For… -
English:
Money Management 1-2-3: Backgrounder Guide
This backgrounder guide is part of our “Money Management 1-2-3” financial empowerment educational and training module. The module also contains three multilingual brochures and a lesson plan with PowerPoint training slides. -
English:
Money Management 1-2-3: Seminar Lesson Plan and Class Activities
This packet, only available as a PDF file, provides guidance for teachers and team leaders. This 62-page packet contains a detailed curriculum, classroom activities and take home worksheets. -
English:
Money Management 1-2-3: Powerpoint Slides
The Money Management 1-2-3 Powerpoint training file is available for download in the "Download File" section. -
Press:
Precios de casas en ruta de declive
Los Ángeles y Washington son la excepción con alzas de 2.1% y 3.5% El precio de las viviendas unifamiliares en las veinte mayores ciudades de Estados Unidos cayó en noviembre de 2010 un 1.6% respecto… -
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Administration seeking smaller federal role in mortgages
The Obama administration released a broad outline on Friday for the future of housing finance in the United States, calling for a substantial reduction in government support for the mortgage market but providing few concrete… -
Press:
Waiting seven years for two answers
WHEN Zella Mae Green of Georgia filed for bankruptcy to save her home from foreclosure in 2004, she and her lawyer wanted to know two things: Did she actually owe any back payments on her…
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