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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.dowelltaggart.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Search results matching tags 'Ask a RE Question', 'News', and 'Kansas'</title><link>http://www.dowelltaggart.com/search/SearchResults.aspx?o=DateDescending&amp;tag=Ask+a+RE+Question,News,Kansas&amp;orTags=0</link><description>Search results matching tags 'Ask a RE Question', 'News', and 'Kansas'</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Debug Build: 61019.2)</generator><item><title>&amp;quot;The fabric of our lives&amp;quot;.... Our Credit Scores?</title><link>http://www.dowelltaggart.com/blogs/dowell_taggart_team/archive/2009/05/20/the-fabric-of-our-lives-our-credit-scores.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 13:38:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">315cb15e-160d-46a6-894b-a7882b07a877:470822</guid><dc:creator>230330</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Wow.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Where we live and how we live....What drives us?&amp;nbsp; Are we, each of us, the sum total of our credit scores?&amp;nbsp; These scores affect our ability to rent a car, acquire and keep property and casualty insurance...open a bank account...and for 32% of all employers, the ability to choose the &amp;quot;best&amp;quot; candidate for the job. (?)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mortgage reform, led by appraisal reform, is now followed by credit card reform....&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-05-20-credit-cards-house_N.htm" title="USAToday"&gt;USAToday&lt;/a&gt;, the Senate gave the House permission to work on a bill that would limit credit card companies&amp;#39; ability to &lt;a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-05-20-credit-cards-house_N.htm" title="raise lending rates"&gt;raise lending rates&lt;/a&gt; without providing a clear cut understanding of why the rates were raised, and how to return to a lower rate at a future time....&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;President Obama requested this action, and is therefore expected to sign this bill into law....Opposition states that more than 5,000 people may lose their jobs....Well, so what?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Their employers are engaging in predatory practices....Not the employee&amp;#39;s fault, and it affects us all...millions of us, on a daily basis.&amp;nbsp; Should we do what&amp;#39;s right and lose a few jobs?&amp;nbsp; Uh, yeah.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Unfotrtunately,&amp;nbsp;cotton has been replaced by your credit score as &amp;quot;the fabric of our lives&amp;quot;....&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When it&amp;#39;s time to decide where you should live, should we talk?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>&amp;quot;Where did my Equity Go?&amp;quot;....Final chapter</title><link>http://www.dowelltaggart.com/blogs/dowell_taggart_team/archive/2009/05/19/where-did-my-equity-go-final-chapter.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 17:53:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">315cb15e-160d-46a6-894b-a7882b07a877:470382</guid><dc:creator>230330</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;In his work, &lt;a href="http://conspiracyoftherich.com/" title="Conspiracy of the Rich"&gt;Conspiracy of the Rich&lt;/a&gt;, Rich Dad entrepenour, Robert Kiosaki, discusses the fact that during our current crisis on Wall Street, wealth didn&amp;#39;t evaporate, it just changed hands....WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH REAL ESTATE?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your equity, your value, may come back....If it does, and that&amp;#39;s a big if, respected economists are judging the process to take place over YEARS, not months....&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hang on, I&amp;#39;m getting there....We are constantly asked questions regarding timing....Specifically, is this a good time to Buy, Sell, Hold, Reinvest, Step Up...and so forth.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes, No, Maybe...depends on your objectives.&amp;nbsp; For most of us, not all of us, now is a great time to make a purchase while product prices are lower, and interest rates are at 30 year lows....Some, more than others WILL BENEFIT.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your objectives drive your strategy and your actions.&amp;nbsp; Many are buying because they have been told that&amp;#39;s a sound strategy....MAYBE NOT.&amp;nbsp; Our biggest reponsibility is to &lt;u&gt;JUST SAY &amp;quot;SLOW&lt;/u&gt;&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Our clients expect fact, not fiction.&amp;nbsp; Should we talk?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>