While you're doing that, build up your personal financial plan and your emotional intelligence. - Build up an emergency fund of 6 months to 1 year.

Location IS important, and the cost of what you buy will in part reflect the location.I know you'll have more intelligent responses, but perhaps this gives y ou a different way o thinking of some things.Best wishes in your journey, and welcome to this forum.OfgiftOr, is the zoning about to change, and to what?

The deadline is approaching and no big news about the extension or expansion.There was a piece of news that attracted my attention: the House voted unanimously to extend the tax credit with one more year for the Service members: members of the military, Foreign Service, and intelligence corps who have served overseas.If you want to read more about this news check this link to usnews.com: http://bit.ly/4e6Z2W.Hoping to get more good news!

You seem to be very intelligent and full of ideas.

I found charts 7 and 9 shocking simply because they made points that I hadn’t considered before - the massive amounts of people 12, even 24 months delinquent on their mortgages, but still in their homes, happily spending away the money that they should be paying on their loans, and artificially stimulating the economy in the process so that our current administration can spin this into good news - consumer spending is up!

One would hope that the Fed wouldn't artificially increase interest rates based on the *expectation* of inflation; in which case, it's reasonable to assume that real estate returns will continue to track inflation, as it has pretty much done for the past 100 years and there wouldn't be significant risk in leverage or real estate equity.

Ten thousand people died -- an entire town destroyed." (12 were killed)And people call Obama an 'intelligent' president!

It is LAYERED and intelligence based.

You can also see where they do business, what they do and an indication as to life style, lots of intelligence can be had from bank statements.

A common (& intelligent!)