Mar 28th 2011 10:25AM
A record 33 percent of all home buyers in the U.S. pay in cash, according to the National Association of Realtors. How do these people come up with the loot to buy a home – often in the hundreds of thousands of dollars – without a bank loan? Well, some of them are investors and wealthy individuals with big... Continue Reading »
Jan 11th 2011 3:01PM
Maybe Laverne and Shirley had it right. The fictional roommates from the hit 1970s sitcom played by Penny Marshall, right, and Cindy Williams had fights, but they also had plenty of fun. Last week, CNNMoney.com featured a personal essay by Brooklyn writer, florist and stylist, Amy Merrick. In the article Merrick claimed... Continue Reading »
Jan 3rd 2011 10:25AM
Marla Mathless had been a renter in her downtown Manhattan building for seven years before she formally met her neighbor. "He came over and asked if I'd split my cable costs with him," she says. "He said he couldn't afford it anymore and wanted to just drill a small hole in the wall to run the cable into both apartments.... Continue Reading »
Nov 2nd 2010 2:48PM
When 30-year-old Kimberly Palmer, and her husband, Sujay Dave, purchased a townhouse this year in a suburb of Washington, D.C., they may have seemed like typical first-time homebuyers. Young, educated and hard-working, the couple also had a newborn daughter, Kareena. But they were different from most first-time homebuyers... Continue Reading »
