The Big Orange Press Blog
Although the newspapers reported mortgage rates down last week, they weren't. Conforming mortgage rates were higher by at least 1/8 percent, or roughly $11 per $100,000 borrowed per month. In some cases, rates were up by even more.
In the two-minute video, you'll learn how to replace an air filter from start-to-finish. There's no need for tools and no need for experience -- the job is about as basic as home maintenance jobs come.
Sometimes, headlines for housing can be misleading and this week gave us a terrific example. On Wednesday, the Commerce Department released its Housing Starts data for January 2010. The data showed starts at a 6-month high. The real story is something different.
The Fed Minutes is a follow-up document, delivered 3 weeks after an official FOMC meeting. It's a companion piece to the post-meeting press release, detailing the debates and discussions that shaped our central bankers' policy decisions. The Minutes is a terrific look into the Fed's collective mind and, yesterday, Wall Street didn't like what it saw.
According to the Census Bureau, 2.8 million people commute to work 90 minutes or more each day, in each direction. Now, your daily commute may not be as long, but time spent in cars, trains and buses is time away from work and from family.
Sometimes, price tags just don't want to unstick. No matter how hard you scrub and scrape, tacky residence stays behind. Turns out, getting the stick off your stickers isn't so hard when you have the right tools.
I decided to plan a special night out for Valentines Day with Leslie. So I got on Yelp.com and starting doing some research on some different restaurants to try out. I came across ROUXBARB at 130 South Northshore in West Knoxville. The menu has a variety that is just outstanding […]
Knox County School Board has chosen the Northshore Town Center as the new location for it’s elementary school in West Knoxville. Knox County Schools had been considering 3 different locations that I wrote about in a previous post The vote was 7-1 with Cindy Buttry being the only no vote. […]
The cities that are coming back the strongest are the ones that did not hit have the pricing bubble, which was followed by the foreclosure crisis. Forbes did a study of America’s 100 largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) which are defined by US census. One of the key factors in […]