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Buying a House Using Walkability Score
By: Urban Trekker
15Mar2010The other day I posted Getting to Walkability presentation from DC office of Planning. It got me thinking that the same method can also be used by buyers. DC is using the walkability for different things related to planning, for transportation and ne...
Double Dip Price Decline?
By: Urban Trekker
12Mar2010Image via Wikipedia This is FHA saying. An increase in down payments to 5%, from the current minimum 3.5%, would limit new FHA-backed loans by 40%, equivalent to 300,000 fewer home sales, according to testimony that FHA Commissioner David Stevens is...
A DC Homeowner Story on Weatherization
By: Urban Trekker
2Mar2010There's a non profit organization in DC, DC Project doing Weatherize DC, making its stride into homes energy efficiencies through weatherization. Weatherize DC is working towards its goal to weatherize 200 homes by March 2010. This is the story of on...
Loudoun County Energy Efficiency and Conservation Strategy
By: Urban Trekker
1Mar2010I had the opportunity to talk to Andrea McGimsey, Supervisor for Potomac District in Loudoun County about the county energy strategy to reduce its energy consumption to remain competitive economically, over the weekend at a Sierra Club workshop. Coun...
Getting to Walkability
By: Urban Trekker
26Feb2010The DC government gets down to its urban metric. Getting To Walkability View more presentations from mrlerner.
Short sales grow as a cheaper alternative to foreclosure « HousingWire
By: Urban Trekker
18Feb2010Thursday, February 18th, 2010, 2:22 pm Source: Los Angeles Times Nineteen months ago, the recession took Bob Walker%u2019s job. Then, creditors lined up to take the three-bedroom hilltop home that the computer consultant shared with his wife, Stephan...
The Big Problem with Short Sales
By: Urban Trekker
18Feb2010Memo to buyers: be patient, if you're buying a short-sales. A short sales required third-party approval, that is the lender/s holding the loan/s will have to get on board on your purchase. Sometimes they dance with you. Sometimes they don't. No quick...
