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What Features Are Most Important When Buying (and Selling) a House?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

This is the first rule of real estate, right? In fact, The Wall Street Journal estimated that a “pool would actually cost about $4,500 a year in total.” Because we will likely sell the house again in less than ten years, our buying strategy was a bit different than most people’s.

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Frugal housing.

Finally Frugal

I was questioning whether, with the sad state of the real estate market, throwing money at my second mortgage was really the intelligent thing to do, since I don't know whether I'll ever get that money back (I'm thinking not). I got some really good (and thought provoking) comments on that blog post.

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