10 Things Today's Buyers Look for in a Home

What does the buyer of today look for when searching for a home? How similar or different are they from the buyers of yesteryear? Melissa Campbell of RIS Media lays out what both research and experience have shown to be common selling points for home buyers. Unsurprisingly, things like sustainability and neighborhood quality are increasingly important, at times subverting the quality of the actual home itself.

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Politicians Ineffectiveness Lowered Debt

This article was originally posted on The Market Surge. You can find it here.

Anyone who ran a company with a balance sheet that looked like the U.S. probably wouldn’t have a company anymore.

This is the first thing that comes up when you search "Obama,"
and I think it describes all our feelings at the moment.

The picture painted by the federal balance for fiscal year 2012 shows a nation with a negative net worth of more than $16 trillion, according to the Treasury Department’s year-end reports and calculations from banking analyst Dick Bove.

In short, the national assets consist primarily of loans receivable and mortgage-backed securities, along with property, plant and equipment. In all, the total U.S. government assets are shy of $3 trillion.

But all is not so bad! To read the rest of the article, click here.