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I have many single friends--men and women. If I were to generalize among them, I'd say my single male friends tend to rent their homes, while my single female friends overwhelmingly own. The National Association of Realtors has discovered the same thing. Their...

As we continue to wonder if this recovery is here to stay, the insightful folks at RealtyTrac have shown us statistics that renew concern about foreclosure rates. Foreclosures apparently are on the rise, as banks attend to a foreclosure backlog, and can repossess...

Even as more and more Americans choose to rent their homes, homeownership still seems to be an ideal for which we strive. And for good reason--it builds and creates the strongest communities. We've pulled together some of our favorite celebrations of the occasion on...

Asking your customers to complete a survey is a little like asking your significant other if an outfit makes you look fat. You *think* you want to know the answer, but then again...! We here at MortgageKeeper bit the bullet last month and asked our users how they...

Statistics are tricky things. They can be massaged and repurposed to say just about anything to support...well...just about anything. As Mark Twain has it, "Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable." We remember this as we come to grips with the statistics...

We were interested in a recent blog appearing in The Christian Science Monitor describing the relationship between emotion and spending. The author describes some hard and fast ways to keep your emotions from affecting your wallet. Some of us come from the world of...