There are a lot of hurdles when it comes to getting a property. You have to spend lots of time finding your perfect house. Then you have to get someone like Your Building Inspector Gold Coast to make sure there aren’t any major faults with the building. Once you’ve done [Keep reading]
Young people are flocking to big, expensive cities, according to data crunched by housing market information service RealtyTrac, and that might not be the greatest of ideas. Well, if you look at the chart above. you will see that young folks are moving to the Washington D.C. area, which occupies [Keep reading]
Do you lie to people all day to make a living? OK, perhaps you don’t “lie” to the extent that this credit card telemarketer did when he confessed to me a few years ago, or as bad as this time share salesman. But perhaps you sell things you know are [Keep reading]
College graduates are entering the work force with horrible job prospects, into an economy of stagnating wages, and owing an average of $33,000. What’s the solution? Doubling down on school and on debt, says David Brooks in a Friday column that only a 1 percenter could love. OK, college grads [Keep reading]
The average American homeowner pays $1,290 in property taxes for every $100,000 in home value, according to report by real estate data firm Realty Trac. That means taxes on a $250,000 home average $3,225. But some homeowners pay a whole lot more. RealtyTrac’s report this week reveals effective property tax rates [Keep reading]
My Restless Project stories about “sane circles” where people live touched a nerve — I still get lots of traffic and questions about the concept, so I’m going in for a closer look. In case you haven’t seen the earlier posts, I worked with RealityTrac to find the 100 zip codes [Keep reading]
There’s been a lot of talk about raising the minimum wage lately, and it is good that workers and Walmart, TJ Maxx, and Marshall’s will soon have a little more money in their paychecks. Now, what about the rest of the country? Another comprehensive report issued by the Economic Policy [Keep reading]
The U.S. economy has, like so many of life’s big issues, a blind man and the elephant problem. If you have a good job or you just got a raise, you think America has rebounded nicely. If you are still struggling to replace income you lost during the Great Recession, [Keep reading]
Kimberly has been the subject of two Restless Project series stories already, but I promise the third one is charming. I wrote about her last year, when her family was in dire straights after she lost her job. They were going to be $700 in the red each month, mostly [Keep reading]
Once in a while, you hear good news. And often, troubled times lead to fresh wisdom. Here’s a little of of both. Perhaps you remember The Restless Project story of Kimberly:”One income, zero hope.” Mom to a 5 and a 3 year old, Kimberly had been given notice that she [Keep reading]
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