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Lending practices jeopardize Florida's housing industry
Special to the SentinelStruck hard by the mortgage and credit crisis, the Florida building industry's ability to provide housing is in jeopardy. That's because extreme financial-institution business practices are forcing solvent, credit-worthy home builders to the brink of...Tags: Disasters, Housing Industry, Florida, Bankruptcy
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Home Sales, Prices Continue To Slump In October
The Connecticut housing market continued its sharp declines in October, even as neighboring Massachusetts and Rhode Island showed some nascent signs of improvement. Sales of single-family houses in Connecticut plunged by 17 percent in October, compared...Tags: Real Estate Sales, Rhode Island, Warren (Litchfield, Connecticut), Connecticut, Massachusetts
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Models under construction at Oak Creek
Tribune reporterConstruction is progressing on several custom home models at Oak Creek, a partially wooded single-family development in Lockport. Planned for 161 residences set on lots of up to a third-acre, Oak Creek will have more than 38 acres of land devoted to open...Tags: Bodies of Water, Rivers, Lockport, Passenger Cars, Crystal Lake
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Home library gives a room character
McClatchy/TribuneBy Mary Beth Breckenridge A home library is to the brain what a kitchen is to the body. It's a place for nourishing the mind, for feasting on the comfort food of the written word. For an avid reader, it is perhaps the ultimate escape. It has also become...Tags: Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, Libraries and Museums, Dining and Drinking, Homes, Books and Magazines
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Boomers boosting universal design
Associated PressWhen her husband Arthur underwent several spinal surgeries last year and was recuperating in the hospital, Mariam Eisenberg knew she had to make some design changes to her Jericho, N.Y., home before he returned. Her wheelchair-bound husband wouldn't be...Tags: Government, Architecture, National Government
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Home builders reinventing roles out of necessity
In today's challenging times, the home-building industry is borrowing heavily from the adage that necessity is the mother of invention. That's no more true than today, as residential builders continue to tap their other skills to diversify and make...Tags: Government, Property, Employees, Land Price, Orland Park
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Child killed in mobile home fire in Wicomico Co.
The Associated PressAuthorities have released the identity of a 19-month-old boy killed in a fire that ruined a Wicomico County mobile home. Andrew Zentmyer died despite several attempts by his father, 25-year-old David Zentmyer, to rescue the boy. Investigators said the...Tags: Fires, Wicomico County
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Child killed in mobile home fire in Willards
The Associated PressA 19-month-old boy was killed in a fire that ruined a Wicomico County mobile home, the State Fire Marshal's Office said. Deputy State Fire Marshal Joe Zurolo said the fire was reported by neighbors about 2:30 a.m. in the 9000 block of Bethel Road in...Tags: Fires, Television Industry
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Davie may help neediest tenants losing homes at Palma Nova
SunSentinel.comTown officials vowed three months ago to help families being evicted from one of Davie's largest mobile home parks. On Wednesday night, the Town Council discussed a plan that would divert more than $1.12 million from the town's reserves or community...Tags: Rental Service, Broward County
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Astatula ponders future after sharp cutbacks by largest employer
Sentinel Staff WriterASTATULA Vickie McCormick and her husband, Michael, are not looking forward to Dec. 22. That's the day Florida Made Door Co. will begin suspending operations at its plant next to the couple's My Hero Sub Shop and lay off up to 80 employees. The...Tags: Restaurants, Employees, Unemployment, Economic Policy, Layoffs and Downsizing
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Super-low rates for mortgages?
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is considering a new plan to lower mortgage rates in an effort to resuscitate the U.S. housing market, a government official said. Under one proposal, Treasury would seek to lower the rate on a 30-year mortgage to 4.5...Tags: Derivative Securities, Mortgages, Government, Credit and Debt, Foreclosures
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Republic Windows & Doors to shut down
Tribune staff reporterRepublic Windows & Doors will shut its doors Friday, causing approximately 300 workers to lose their jobs at the North Side manufacturer. The company, which has been in business since 1965, told employees Wednesday that its main lender, Bank of America,...Tags: Employees, Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., Bank of America Corp., Sales
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