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Now here's an idea to beat the housing crisis blues: collective homeownership. Yep, that's right.  You and a friend, or you and your spouse and another couple, find a home and purchase it together. National Public Radio's Marketplace program featured a story...

There's some shameless horn-blowing going on here at MK. In the first 6 months of 2012, we referred more than 411,000 folks to local, vetted, best-in-class resources--from all 50 states and D.C. That's up 75% over the 235,000 referrals we made over the same period...

The news from the housing trenches is still mixed--this glass seems to be both empty and full at the same time. But this article from Bloomberg caught our eye: home equity (your home's worth minus any debt you owe on the home) saw its biggest jump in 60 years last...

I moved across town this week to a new home, and started the seemingly endless phone calls and emails to change my address, establish utilities, and generally get my new life in a new community in order. My call to the local power company was especially interesting....

Intriguing doesn't begin to cover it. Twice in two days we've seen the campaign topic du jour--student loan debt--tied to the housing crisis. But in two very different ways. The New York Times ran part one in their series "Degrees of Debt" that detailed how an entire...

Sometimes it's hard not to judge the world by what you see around you. Case in point: in Minneapolis, where a few of us MortgageKeeper folks live, the economy seems to be improving--considerably. Homes that have had "for sale" signs in the yard for two or even three...