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Watch It Made in the U.S.A.: A Visitor’s Guide to the Best Factory Tours and Company Museums

Have you ever wondered how toothpaste gets into the tube? How stripes get on a candy cane? More than just a travel guide, Watch It Made in the U.S.A. helps you experience firsthand the products, companies, technology, and workers that fuel our economy, from Ben and Jerry’s to Harley-Davidson. Whether you’re curious about potato chips or computer chips, cars or crayons, you can count on authors and factory-tour experts Karen Axelrod and Bruce Brumberg to help you and your family discover info

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No Evictions during the Holidays

Article by Julie Jalone

Both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will suspend evictions for single-family foreclosures and two- to four-unit properties during the holiday season, from Dec. 19 through Jan. 2, 2012.

According to a Fannie Mae spokesman, “The holidays are meant for families to spend time together, especially if they’ve gone through the stress of financial challenges and foreclosure. No family should have to give up their home during this holiday season.”

While the holiday moratorium is in place, legal and administrative proceedings for evictions may continue, but families living in foreclosed properties will be permitted to remain in the home until after the moratorium.

Although this is a nice gesture on the part of the two largest lenders in the country a recent report indicates we are a long way from being through with the foreclosure crisis.

According to the report by the Center for Responsible Lending at least 2.7 million mortgages made between 2004 and 2008 or 6.4 percent have ended up in foreclosure as of February 2011. The report goes on to say another 3.6 million households, or 8.3 percent, are at immediate risk of losing their homes.

In my business at MagnumOne Realty in Roseville, a large percentage of our listings remain short sales where the homeowner owes more than the house is currently worth and is either struggling to make payments or has a reason they need to sell. On the… Read the rest