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Interest Rates Hit Record Low in June
In early June 2020, mortgage rates did something unusual: they set a record-low by dropping under 3%. Mortgage News Daily reports that the rate for 30-year fixed loans hit 2.97% at a time many experts were thinking the rate was about to go up. Is this highly...
Shopping for a Home During a Pandemic? Here Are Some Tips.
Shopping for a Home During a Pandemic? Here Are Some Tips. One good thing within this coronavirus pandemic: people aren’t dropping like flies all around us. There is an actual virus, and it is causing serious problems for some people. But it’s not laying to waste...
Beating the Foreclosure Blues: 16 Ways to Realize More Money and Keep Your Home
People sell their homes for a variety of reasons. When you sell because you want to in order to grow and move up to a better living situation, that’s a good sell. When you sell because you no longer can afford your home, that’s not a good sell. The national economy...
A Sex Dungeon in Van Buren?
They say sex sells, and a couple in Van Buren is banking on it. Shayne and Jennifer McKinney have come up with a . . . unique way to get their home-for-sale noticed: they built a sex dungeon. Before you freak out too much, I know Shayne, and he’s a real estate...
While most of the world is going big, some people are going tiny
Do you want to simplify your life? I mean really simplify it? How about simplify it and save a ton of money in the process? Of course there’s a catch, but it’s one that might be worth thinking a little about. You’ve probably heard about what they call “tiny...
A gut instinct, $10,000, and a waitress
When I was a lot younger I heard people talking about “going with your gut” and paying attention to your instincts. Through the years I have come to believe that we all definitely have an inner voice that can direct us and clue us in on things, if we figure out a way...
Fort Smith moves into third century
The year 2017 marked Fort Smith’s 200th anniversary. There’s a really cool video from NWAhomepage.com that delves into our history and ties it up with our present, the central message being that Fort Smith is looking to the future to keep our city vibrant and strong...
This may be up there with the most important home sales in America
When I say “Brady Bunch house,” many of you probably have an instant reference. For those who don’t, this is the iconic house whose exterior was regularly depicted on the ABC sitcom The Brady Bunch, which ran from 1969 to 1974. It’s a real house, located at 11122...
Getting 10,000 words about your home is as easy as point and snap
Getting 10,000 words about your home is as easy as point and snap Submitted by Ellie Glidewell on June 17, 2016 - 9:56pm A picture is worth a thousand words, as the old saying goes, and when it comes to selling homes in Fort Smith, it couldn’t be closer to the truth....
The town that turned into a pile of chat
As disaster areas go, Picher, Okla., seems an unlikely candidate. But disasters can be deceiving. Not all of them are big and obvious like a tornado or a flash flood. Or a world war, which is what indirectly caused Picher’s disaster. The town, which lies in the...