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What is a Buyers Market? The media loves to make predictions about the housing market. At the first sign of bulging inventories or falling prices, they'll happily holler that we're in a buyer's market. Unfortunately, journalists are usually late to the party, heralding a particular market when we've been knee-deep in it for...

What to do About your Mortgage if you Lose your Job Americans are getting back to work after a long, bleak recession. While unemployment rates have fallen in many cities across the nation, however, in a dozen or so states they have actually gone up. Despite an increasingly healthy economy, if you work for someone else there is no guarantee that you w...