The Obama Administration has its eye on Cleveland, where foreclosed and vacant homes are being razed to the ground. While bulldozing sounds like a radical idea, the premise behind it is to clear away the least-saleable homes in areas with a surplus of foreclosed inventory, thereby stabilizing property values. Some argue that there’s a market [...]

Ever year, Berkshire Hathaway shareholders await the reflections and predictions of billionaire investor Warren Buffet. In his most recent correspondence, Buffet shared that he was “dead wrong” about the American housing market. The recovery did not come in 2011 as he had predicted. Even so, he remains optimistic, expressing that housing is likely to recover [...]

Could credit cards go the way of the dodo? Many of the industrialized nations around the globe are moving away from traditional credit cards with magnetic strips in favor of embedded microprocessor chips, because they may cut down on fraud. The chip-and-PIN method is the newest smartcard technology, where a microchip is embedded in the credit or debit card.

Before you head out for your next vacation, take some simple steps to safeguarding your home against burglary. Lock up — Securing your doors and latch all windows.

There are mountains for climbing, and then there are mountains for driving. For weekend travelers who’d rather be in an automobile than in hiking boots, these five peaks are accessible vistas. Mount Spokane is located 25 miles north of Spokane in the Selkirk Range.