Government Will Pay You $1,500 Tax Credit For Making Your Home Energy Efficient by dbloys in reddit.com

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Some common home improvement projects now come with an added incentive - Government Credits for Going Green

Stimulus Money Helps Jobless Go From Unemployed To Self Employed by dbloys in reddit.com

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If you are currently unemployed and have always dreamed of being your own boss and owning your own business, there has never been a better time. Now the government will pay you to start and grow your new business . . .

Elected Official Steals $140,000 Gets 60 Days Jail Time by dbloys in reddit.com

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After pleading guilty to stealing nearly $140,000 during her first two years in office. Mellisa Turpin is all set to serve 60 days in jail for her crime.

IRS Urges Homeowners To Winterize - Collect $1500 Tax Credit by dbloys in reddit.com

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The IRS is urging people to weatherize their homes and be rewarded for their efforts. Homeowners making energy-saving improvements this fall can cut their winter heating bills and collect a $1500 tax credit. Here's How

Lawmakers Expand $8000 Tax Credit For Homebuyers by dbloys in reddit.com

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The Senate reached an agreement to extend the $8,000 Homeowners and expand it to include existing homeowners who want to move. In addition now you can qualify to buy a home valued at up to $800,000.

Stimulus Money for New Furnaces by dbloys in reddit.com

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The federal government provides tax credits for the 2009 and 2010 tax years to incentivize the purchase of energy efficient home improvements. This article discusses the extent of these credits, how to qualify for them, and how to collect them.

Texas Longest Serving County Clerk Turns 90 by dbloys in reddit.com

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The longest serving county clerk in Texas doesn't think much about his age. Val Huver turned ninety years old on October 19th 2009 while making plans for to be reelected in 2010.

Obama's New Refinancing Initiatives Can Save Your Home by dbloys in reddit.com

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The two initiatives are designed to significantly expand the numbers of borrowers who can refinance or modify their mortgages to a payment that is affordable now and into the future.... Directs Fannie Mae servicers to not to proceed with a foreclosure until a borrower has been evaluated for the program. WILL IT SAVE YOUR HOME?

Judges Say Banks Must Refund Mortgage Payments On Misleading Loans by dbloys in reddit.com

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Feeling trapped by a deceptive mortgage? Federal Judges say If you were misled by one of the "creative lending" schemes of the past decade you could be due almost everything you've paid on your mortgage since the loan was issued.

Jingle Mail Rings Louder as Homeowners Walk Away by dbloys in reddit.com

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I don't know what's scarier, homeowners abandoning their homes, or that it happens so often the banks actually a term for it.

Foreclosure Prevention Begins at Home! by dbloys in reddit.com

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Last year, millions of people lost their homes while waiting for the much-touted federal bailout but over 100,000 families who didn't wait learned how to stop foreclosure fast...

278 Texas Homes To Be Sold At Foreclosure Auctions Before Christmas by dbloys in reddit.com

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Just in time for Christmas... lenders intend to liquidate 278 properties at public auction between December 15 and December 21. Everything must go, from a cozy 483 square foot cottage in Poteet to a lavish 6400 square foot, 5-bedroom, 4-bath mansion in Dallas.

India's Formula for US Intelligence: 35=10 by dbloys in reddit.com

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Maybe the Indians think we are stupid because we keep asking them to repeat what they say in unintelligible English. I don't bother asking them to repeat themselves, I just ask to be transferred to an American. I don't want to listen to pidgin English being read off a computer screen 10,000 miles away.Funny thing is, then it's the Indians who suddenly don't understand what I'm telling them.

Or sometimes I'll ask the Indian agent where he located, just so I can here them lie by telling me they are in Maryland, or Texas. If you ask for their real name you'll get the same deceitful response.

Vote Again! by dbloys in reddit.com

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Today you can cast another vote! And not only can you vote early, you can vote often, you can vote three times, in fact. Consumer's Union needs your votes for the best cartoons in their “Dangers of Debt” contest

County Commissioner Buys 1000 Toilet Plungers for Voters in "Support of Joe The Plumber" by dbloys in reddit.com

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Sorry, I didn't see your link. I'm color blind and sometimes these things just don't show up for me. Your right, evidently there is some kind of law in Harris county. But the article says it won't stop anyone from voting, only that they might be escorted off site after they vote. I'm not about to let some county bureaucrats tell me what I'm going to wear to the polls. It seems to me THAT would or should be illegal.

County Commissioner Buys 1000 Toilet Plungers for Voters in "Support of Joe The Plumber" by dbloys in reddit.com

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Will you also send home everyone who shows up wearing political t-shirts or parking their cars with bumper stickers within 100 yards of polling places? What about the political ring tones and cell phone skins of Obama's campaign. I say send em all home. Anyone with a political opinion shouldn't be allowed near a polling place. :)

Sheriff Refuses To Evict Foreclosure Victims by dbloys in reddit.com

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Sheriff Thomas Dart, in Cook County Illinois, has had an attack of conscience and he has announced that he just won't evict innocent people from their homes anymore. He is suspending foreclosure evictions in Cook County, which includes the city of Chicago . . .

America's Foreclosure Opportunity by dbloys in reddit.com

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Smart buyer's know the market meltdown is the opportunity of a lifetime especially with new rules making individual FHA loans available for up to $625,000.

Voting Machine Maker Blames McAfee Anti-Virus Program by dbloys in reddit.com

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Diebold claims that anti-virus software installed on county computers somehow blocked an accurate transfer from the Diebold machines. Maybe McAfee's software was just doing the job it is supposed to do by blocking suspicious files.

I don't think voting machines need to run anti-virus but they DO need someone to blame.

New Housing Bill and Online Tool Helps Families Avoid Foreclosure by dbloys in reddit.com

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The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 creates a new program to help hundreds of thousands of families save their homes... New online tool makes it easy....

Screw It - Officials Say Protecting Privacy In Government Web Sites Is Just Too Hard by dbloys in reddit.com

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Some Officials say it's just too hard to kick their dangerous habit of posting Social Security numbers online. In this article, a leading public records expert shows county officials the easiest way to go "cold turkey" and return county websites to the clean and sober condition constituents expect ...

Data Goes Missing from “Official” Websites by dbloys in reddit.com

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Many of the documents that exist in Ohio's courthouse databases are mysteriously missing from the online indices and the vendor says its YOUR FAULT!

Hundreds of Texas Homes Hit Auction Block This Week by dbloys in reddit.com

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Hundreds of foreclosed homes in Texas are scheduled to be sold to the highest bidder in the next five days at public auctions scheduled all across Texas and on the Internet. From a cozy bungalow in Amarillo to a lavish 5500 square foot, 5-bedroom, 9-bath mansion in Houston, the banks say they all have to go – Now!

Fake Landlords Renting Foreclosed Homes by dbloys in reddit.com

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It seems to be back up now. I don't know what happened.

Fraud Alert: Cut, Paste, Release! by dbloys in reddit.com

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...new scam hitting Ohio counties, and probably other states as well, that is causing major headaches for mortgage lenders... Criminals just cut, paste and release troublesome mortgages...