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Hardest And Easiest Places To Sell A Home - Forbes
as the dismal u.s. housing market slides further downhill--home prices in july posted a 16.3% annual drop --some sellers are unloading their homes to bargain-hunters. but in cities like seattle, jacksonville, fla., and st. louis --the hardest major ...
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Bank Of America Settles Lawsuit Over Bad Mortgages
phoenix (ap) -- some welcome news for thousands of arizonans struggling to keep their homes.
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5 Suspects Linked To 20 Home Burglaries
investigators so far have recovered more than $500,000 in stolen goods and confirmed more than 20 home burglaries in a crime spree that targeted phoenix area retirees.
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School-district Merger Plan Stirs Furor - Azcentral.com
campaigns to stop neighborhood schools in the valley from merging into much larger districts heated up this week as election day draws closer. about 200 campaign signs sprung up in north-central phoenix yards on the same day volunteers canvassed the ...
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Valley Foreclosures May Double Soon - Kpho
phoenix -- the valley may see a two-fold increase in the number of foreclosed homes within the next 90 days. currently, 20,812 maricopa county homes are vacant and owned by the bank, and another 26,935 homes are on the brink of foreclosure, according ...
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Cylindrical Solar Cells Give A Whole New Meaning To Sunroof
there are approximately 30 billion square feet (2.8 billion square meters) of expansive, flat roofs in the u.s., an area large enough to collect the sunlight needed to power 16 million american homes, or replace 38 conventional coal-fired power plants. by covering these roofs with large, flat arrays of cylindrical thin-film solar cells (think massive installations of fluorescent tubes, only ...
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Fbi File: Knievel Involved In Phoenix Threat
the late evel knievel never denied his scrapes with the law -- the motorcycle daredevil often reveled in them.
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Crusade Could Bring Flurry Of Zoning Referendums - Azcentral.com
laveen resident randy jones is cruising up 35th avenue in his pickup truck, a pair of neighbors in the backseat and toby keith on the radio, when he spots a sign announcing a possible rezoning. most valley residents shrug at signs like this one, if ...
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Making Money From A Meltdown - Washington Post
during the savings and loan crisis in the late 1980s, the government formed the resolution trust corp. to help it liquidate the portfolios of failed s& ls. auctioneers such as ron evans were enlisted to sell off properties, as in this auction in ...
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Ghosts Circling Once-booming Ariz. Town
in just eight years, this city sprang from the desert almost spontaneously. where once there was a railroad crossing, a dairy queen and about 1,000 people, there are now 33,000 residents in what has become a bedroom community for phoenix, a 40-minute drive northeast across the desert.
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Ice Den To Host Free Community Event On Oct. 18 To Celebrate 10-year Anniversary
the alltel ice den, home training center for the phoenix coyotes, announced today they will be hosting a free community event on saturday, october 18 from noon-8:00pm to mark the facility's ten year anniversary. free on-ice and off-ice activities are planned. corporate involvement includes the phoenix coyotes, peter piper pizza, radio disney, bnc national bank and mountainside fitness.
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Islanders At A Glance - Newsday
eastern conference all-star). offense: 2.30 gpg (30th). defense: 2.93 gaa (23rd). power play: 14.6% (29th). penalty kill: 81.9% (19th). notable additions: d mark streit (13-49-62, montreal); c doug weight (10-15-25, ana-stl), c josh bailey (no. 9 ...
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Local Video - Ktvk 3tv Phoenix - Yahoo News
at least one person was killed and several more were hurt in a four-car wreck that kept a valley intersection closed all night and into the morning. at least one person was killed and several more were hurt in a four-car wreck that kept a valley ...
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Change In Zoning Ok'd To Get New Pawn Shop
another pawn shop is coming to northeast phoenix. but this one is billed as an upscale alternative to older stores that some residents consider a public-safety hazard.
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The Acacia Three
only three homes remain available for sale at the single-family neighborhood of acacia at morningstar ranch, according to del mar-based builder brookfield san diego builders inc.
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Boa Alters Loans To Save Homeowners - Kpho
phoenix -- facing a lawsuit over deceptive mortgage practices, bank of america corp. is agreeing to pay more than $8 billion to modify hundreds of thousands of loans to keep people from losing their homes. charlotte, n.c.-based bank of america said ...
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London 2012 Legacy Advisers Named - The Independent
carphone warehouse founder david ross and former olympic javelin champion tessa sanderson were today named as legacy advisers to london mayor boris johnson for the 2012 olympics. a strong legacy was a key pledge to the international olympic committee ...
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Housing Slump Has Phoenix-area Schools Scrambling
schools that should have held 400 to 500 students were bursting with 800, crowding the halls, filling modular buildings on the property and commandeering every inch of classroom space.
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Even With Market Indicators Red, Interest In Green
million-dollar home sale luxury homes of las vegas reported the following million-dollar home sale last week.
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Home Sales Down In Saskatoon - Saskatoon Star Phoenix
the number of homes sold in saskatoon in september continued to decline for the third straight month, according to a recent report. figures complied by the saskatoon region association of realtors (srar) show 246 homes were sold in the city last ...
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