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Consumer Awareness

How To Clean Your Outdoor Gas Grill In Less Than 30 Minutes

Regardless of your hometown’s climate, outdoor gas grill cooking can be a four-season endeavor. Just remembe to keep your grill clean. According to Weber’s annual GrillWatch Survey, less than 40% of grill owners clean their equipment with any bit of frequency, and 6 percent admit they’ve never cleaned their grill at all. There are three [...]

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Condo, Townhome or House…That is the Question

Not sure what type of house to buy? Ask yourself these questions. What is your lifestyle, do you travel a lot for your job? Do you enjoy yard work planting your own flowers? Are you use to making a call and having a company take care of exterior work? Homeownership, no matter what category, comes [...]

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Home rentals increase, and so do prices

Home ownership declines to lowest level since 2006 WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — More Americans this year are choosing to rent instead of owning their own homes, and they’re paying a higher price too. The U.S. Census said Monday that rental vacancies fell to 8.8% in the first three months of 2012 from 9.4% in the [...]

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Mortgage Guidelines Resume Tightening Nationwide

Despite an improving U.S. economy, the nation’s banks remain cautious about what they will lend, and to whom. Last quarter, by a margin of 3-to-2, more banks tightened residential mortgage lending standards for “prime borrowers” than did loosen them. A “prime borrower” is defined as one with a well-documented credit history, high credit scores, and [...]

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Pavement Repairs to Occur on the Western Portion of the Sam Rayburn Tollway in May

Starting in early May, NTTA maintenance staff will begin pavement repairs on sections of the Sam Rayburn Tollway in Denton County. Throughout the project, crews will remove and replace cracked or worn out pavement on the toll road’s main lanes and frontage roads. “The main purpose of this project is to provide motorists a safe [...]

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Trinity Parkway Public Hearing on May 8

The general public is invited to attend and participate in a Trinity Parkway public hearing on Tuesday, May 8. The NTTA, in cooperation with the Texas Department of Transportation, will conduct the public hearing to discuss the proposed Trinity Parkway project in the City of Dallas. The public hearing will be held in [...]

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Bush Turnpike Western Extension Forging Ahead in Downtown Grand Prairie

In downtown Grand Prairie, the south side of the Jefferson Street bridge recently opened, including access from the bridge to both north- and southbound State Highway 161 frontage roads, as work continues on the Western Extension of the President George Bush Turnpike. The entrance to the Bank of America building off of the northbound SH [...]

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RED Day is Right Around the Corner!

There’s only one more week before Keller Williams Realty’s 4th annual RED Day and I wanted to make sure you had a chance to volunteer. We’ll be dedicating our time to the North Texas Food Bank. I can appreciate how busy you must be and we would be so honored to have you there. Imagine [...]

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A Big DON’T When Buying A Home

When trying to get a loan to buy a house remember only one important fact…it is all about your credit score. The higher your FICO score, the more credit worthy you become. Not only that, you become eligible for loan programs and interest rates that a borrower with lesser credit is not privy to. One [...]

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Seniors and Young Adults Will Influence The Housing Market

Over the next two decades, the aging baby boomer generation will swell the nation’s senior population by 30 million. That demographic shift will likely help increase the supply of housing, since people over age 65 typically release much more housing than they absorb. NAR President Moe Veissi noted that current market trends favor would-be homeowners [...]

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