Saving Big on Food   Is your grocery bill eating you alive? With soaring gas prices everywhere, here are some tips that may shave your bill by 20 percent or more and give you more at the end of the month for other things, hopefully not just pumping those food savings into your gas tank.  […]

FICO Scores: Who Have The Best Overall?   Who have better credit scores on average – home buyers with higher or lower incomes?   Many might guess home buyers with higher incomes. The surprising answer is: People with lower incomes have slightly higher FICO scores. That finding, which emerged from a statistical analysis of all […]

Election 08: How Might Your Tax Bill Change?   In our last report on the Election 08 thread, we touched on how the two likely candidates might affect the real estate industry. Perhaps an even more widespread question among a majority of folks would be, "What will they do to my tax bill?"   John […]

Pre-Cooking on Amateur Budgets   As Americans, we typically only spend more on housing and cars than we do on the food we eat. Normally when you pay less, you get less, but that’s not necessarily true when it comes to the food you buy. Money editor Stacy Johnson explains… (video runs 1:39)     […]

Your Comments Welcomed   We’d love to hear your comments about whether you think the economy will improve in the second half of the year?   And we’d also like to know what, if anything, you are doing to weather the current economy… or have you not been affected at all?   Don’t worry, your […]

New Home Sales Rise Unexpectedly   According to a new government report released recently, sales of new homes across the United States rose an unexpected 3.3 percent in April from the prior month, to a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 526,000 homes.   Although activity rose over the month, sales of new homes in the […]