Little-known HUD program allows couples, graduates and expectant parents to amass cash gifts from friends and family into a …
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Fannie and Freddie Fact vs. Fiction: What Will the Wind-Down Do?
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — just the companies’ names sound like characters out of a Brothers Grimm fable. But their financials from the last few years read like something from Stephen King. Here’s a look at what will and …
The State of the Economy, Investing, Housing, and Brazilian Bikini Waxes
Among other surprising factoids, 44% of Americans say they'll never put money in the stock market again.
Wanna Buy a House with No Money Down? Not Gonna Happen
If you want to buy a house anytime soon, you better start saving—immediately, and in large quantities. Toward the end of 2010, the median down payment on homes bought with conventional mortgages was 22% in a sampling of major U.S. cities, up from as low as 4% in the fourth quarter of 2006.
