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		<title>Fannie Mae Offers Deed for Lease Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For some people, foreclosure doesn&#8217;t mean they&#8217;ll be losing their house.  Fannie Mae is offering a Deed for Lease program for people where people may rent their homes back from Fannie Mae for up to 12 months.  In return, they hand over the deed rather than going through foreclosure.
According to Miranda Marquit over at Loan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.banks.com/blogs/realestate/2009/11/06/fannie-mae-offers-deed-for-lease-program/</link>
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		<title>Congress Extends, Expands Tax Credit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my Realtor friends was a little disappointed when he heard Congress was about to extend and expand the $8000 first-time home buyer tax credit because his buyer said, &#8220;Well now I can just take my time.&#8221;  Ouch for the agent, but for the buyer - I don&#8217;t blame him.  He can take some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.banks.com/blogs/realestate/2009/11/05/congress-extends-expands-tax-credit/</link>
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		<title>Buying a Dump</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Buying a house for practically nothing seems to be all the rage these days.  I cruised through my MLS earlier finding foreclosed, bank-owned, and HUD-owned homes for a buyer.  I was absolutely shocked that probably 90 percent of the houses I saw were distress sales - I&#8217;m talking about homes valued under $120,000 in my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.banks.com/blogs/realestate/2009/11/04/buying-a-dump/</link>
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		<title>Coffee Table Fireplace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not meaning for this to be &#8220;decoration&#8221; week here at Banks.com but it seems that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s turning into.  By chance!  My Twitter friend Ashley Drake Gephart of Albuquerque, New Mexico - or @AshDHart as she&#8217;s known on her Tweets - linked to a very nice site called MultiFuelStoves.com that features 10 very modern, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.banks.com/blogs/realestate/2009/11/03/915/</link>
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		<title>Decorating Doesn&#8217;t Have to be Expensive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am not a decorator.  My centerpiece pictures are hung to high.  The family photos lining the hall are arranged flatly - with no imagination altering the the bleak straight line that takes you from point A to point B.  I thought as I hung them I was doing better than how it turned out, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.banks.com/blogs/realestate/2009/11/02/decorating-doesnt-have-to-be-expensive/</link>
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		<title>Happy Halloween!</title>
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		<link>http://www.banks.com/blogs/realestate/2009/10/31/happy-halloween/</link>
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		<title>Ghosts Don&#8217;t Sell Houses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago, a colleague who is now retired co-listed a home in Nashville that was haunted.  It was not &#8220;supposedly&#8221; haunted &#8230; it had ghosts, plain and simple.  The home seller was a Civil War buff who had gone to a reenactment with a group of friends.  The reenactment was near an old plantation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.banks.com/blogs/realestate/2009/10/30/ghosts-dont-sell-houses/</link>
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		<title>Senate Approves, Alters Tax Credit Extension</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Senate has approved an extension on the home buyer tax credit - and altered it so more than first-time buyers will be eligible.  According to MSNBC,
Senators agreed to extend the existing tax credit for first-time homebuyers while offering a reduced credit of up to $6,500 to repeat buyers who have owned their current [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.banks.com/blogs/realestate/2009/10/28/senate-approves-alters-tax-credit-extension/</link>
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		<title>Tips On How Not to Act When in Financial Trouble</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At college orientation we were told to look to our left, then look to our right.  It was a graphic example of how few people actually graduate once they start their higher education studies.  When I moved into the dorm, perhaps my floor was different than others - or maybe it&#8217;s because I did live [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.banks.com/blogs/realestate/2009/10/27/tips-on-how-not-to-act-when-in-financial-trouble/</link>
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		<title>Ending Foreclosures Could Be Possible</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was torn today about what to write:  who cares if Wall Street talent leaves or imagine no foreclosures (it&#8217;s easy if you try).  So I&#8217;m giving you my $.02 worth on the whole &#8220;losing our best and brightest&#8221; on Wall Street if we don&#8217;t give ridiculous bonuses.  My take?  Don&#8217;t let the door hit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.banks.com/blogs/realestate/2009/10/26/ending-foreclosures-could-be-possible/</link>
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