Government officials who promoted social engineering through their homeownership initiative that was designed to move minorities and the poor into being homeowners.

We are a representative public and the elected officials should not govern by polls and what the majority wants at any given moment.

You can also contact the Louisiana Real Estate Commission for information on the official rules, regulations and laws.

You just need to make it painful enough for the city officials that they give in.

Also, on your end you will want to file a notice of option with the county...this will make your option to purchase official.

The official inflation for the last year is 12.5 %.

:mrgreen: Thanks...I requested to join a different BP.com group on LinkedIn and wasn't aware that it wasn't the "official" one.

But, like someone else posted earlier, there was a very concious effort on the part of our elected (congress) and unelected officials (Greenspan and the heads of FM & FM) to loosen lending guidelines.

Are you prepared to deal with draftsmen and plans development, contractors, building officials and permits?

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