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Telltale signs water heater, furnace will soon die

By Bill and Kevin Burnett, Wednesday, December 24, 2008.

Q: After reading your column on noisy water heaters I was left with a question that has been worrying me since I was widowed and no longer able to depend on my husband to know such things. The issue that sparked my attention was your estimated life span of water heaters as determined by their warranties.  more...

Agents should expand social circle online

By Inman News, Wednesday, December 24, 2008.

Louis Cammarosano, general manager of online real estate company HomeGain, formerly served as general counsel, senior vice president of corporate development and chief operating officer for that company.

He will speak at the Inman News Real Estate Connect conference in New York City, which runs from Jan. 7-9, 2009.

Cammarosano responded to a set of questions posed by Inman News:  more...

Future of mortgage finance

By Tom Kelly, Wednesday, December 24, 2008.

Will the lessons learned from the real estate slowdown spark genuine creativity in marketing and lending to push more sales?

What are the chances that the residential mortgages bought and sold in the secondary markets will revert to the conservative portfolio business that existed before the first securitizations in the early 1980s?

The real estate industry will recover, but it will be different.  more...