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            <author>elsa@RakeTeam.com (Elsa Rake)</author>
            <title>What is Your Must Have Home Feature?</title>
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The Avid Ratings Co., which conducts an annual survey of home buyer preferences, has published its most recent findings.&nbsp; According to their survey, there are 10 &ldquo;must have&rdquo; features in new homes.&nbsp; These features include.

1.&nbsp; Large kitchens with an Island.

For many, the kitchen serves as much more than just a place to cook.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s also, more often than not, used for relaxing and socializing as well.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

2.&nbsp; Energy ef... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:52:25 -0600</pubDate>
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            <author>elsa@RakeTeam.com (Elsa Rake)</author>
            <title>Our Economic Helter Skelter</title>
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&ldquo;Sooner or later in life, we all sit down to a banquet of consequences.&rdquo;

Robert Louis Stevenson

Is a Federal Housing Administration(FHA) crisis on the horizon?&nbsp; With FHA&rsquo;s insurance reserve ratio falling to the lowest level in history, at 0.53 percent, there are some who believe&nbsp;the FHA is the next subprime crisis&nbsp;waiting to happen.&nbsp; One of those is homebuilder, Toll Brothers Inc., CEO, Robert Toll.&nbsp;&nbsp; Toll predicts that just like the failed bank... ]]> </description>
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