An Affordable Shortcut To Designing Your Dream Home

You have likely been making mental notes for years ... plans from which a builder can work: 1.Hire an architect 2.Make alterations to an existing house plan ... does not come cheap. An economical compromise is to modify existing new house plans [more...]

Date: 2008-12-07 20:19:17

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"Great news: Home prices have fallen!"

From Fortune: With declines of 30% or more California markets like Sacramento and San Bernadino, ... homes. New statistics show home affordability has soared in the Northern San Joaquin Valley as plummeting prices enable more families to attain the American dream...The National Association of Home [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 22:08:00

The Free Lunch Approach to Finance

Over the last week, the media has been abuzz with numerous bailout plans to help homeowners in danger of losing their homes ... this appropriately. The American dream to a large extent entails homeownership. The problem ... millions of Americans are living in homes they cannot afford. Many of them have simply stopped [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 20:59:32

Obama Makes Closing Argument on Common Purpose

Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee, is aiming to bring it home today ... to the American dream. In the final excerpt, Obama contends that America’s financial woes are a product ... , lenders tricked people into buying homes they couldn’t afford.  Some folks knew they couldn’t afford [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 15:52:57

Reassessing the fundamentals of the building industry

Although I had touched on this same subject in a much briefer format for my most recent column for Builder & Developer magazine ( ... spectacular—but with dire consequences—was how the “American Dream” mutated into “America’s Piggybank” ... to—or were duped into—home purchases their incomes couldn’t afford, and owners used those homes [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 22:13:00

Full text of Barack Obama's 'We Are One' speech, Jan. 18, 2009

[ President-elect Barack Obama complete with subtitles speaks to thousands gathered on the National Mall 1-18-09 for the inauguration's opening ... of Americans are losing their jobs and their homes; they're worried about how they'll afford college ... States of America will endure, that the dream [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 14:47:54

Obama's Speech At Lincoln Memorial

Here is the text of Obama's speech, as prepared for delivery: I want to thank all the speakers and performers for reminding us, ... of Americans are losing their jobs and their homes; they're worried about how they'll afford college ... today as hopeful as ever that the United States of America will endure - that the dream [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 22:49:11

If you didn't have some tears, you might be unconscious

I saw only the conclusion of today's pre-inauguration event at the Lincoln Memorial in a re-run. But wow. Just wow ... are losing their jobs and their homes; they're worried about how they'll afford college for their kids ... as hopeful as ever that the United States of America will endure - that the dream of our founders [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 07:57:00

“America will prevail”

Lo splendido, come al solito, discorso di Barack Obama al mega concerto "We are one" di Washington: ... and their homes; they’re worried about how they’ll afford college for their kids or pay the stack of bills ... that the United States of America will endure - that the dream of our founders will live [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 01:44:23

"Affordable" Health Care and "affordable" housing -- "affordable" for whom?

Debbie Halvorson's current biggest hammer on 11th CD opponent Marty Ozinga is that he's insensitive to the nation's uninsured health care needs ... these people without their own part of the American dream. That need to have access to their own homes [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 15:04:12

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