RIS MEDIA — REAL ESTATE NEWS

• Keeping Your Finances and Sanity on Track
  You don’t have to be a trader on the world’s markets to experience the financial roller coaster, says mathematician Lambros Klouvidakis. “The world has struggled in recent years to absorb the many stresses and negative influences on global markets and everyone’s affected. Look at the senior citizens who lost as much as 40 percent of their retirement investme […]
• Q: What Are Subprime Loans?
  A: Subprime mortgages are made to borrowers, usually at a higher interest rate, who do not meet traditional credit criteria or who have unconventional borrowing needs. Factors that can prevent someone from meeting the traditional criteria could be a high debt-to-income ratio, low reserves at settlement, as well as past credit woes – bankruptcies, defaults, f […]
• Word of the Day
  Restrictive covenants.  Clauses placed in a deed to restrict the full use of the property by controlling how future landowners may or may not use the property; also used in leases. […]
• Juice for Good Health
  Drinking to good health via juicing is seeing a resurgence in popularity as a new generation discovers the benefits of juiced vegetables, says nutritionist and juicing icon Cherie Calbom, MS, author of a new book full of juicing tips, tricks and recipes, “The Juice Lady's Big Book of Juices and Green Smoothies.” “For decades, people with acute medical c […]