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How to Stage a House for Sale 03/07/2023 07:00pm • Home staging is the act of cleaning, rearranging and remodeling parts of a property to make it more appealing to potential homebuyers. Professional home stagers are often brought in by real estate agents -- or the agents practice a bit of staging themselves -- to help homeowners make a house ready t 9 Dividend Aristocrat Stocks to Buy Now 03/07/2023 07:00pm • When a company can avoid cutting its dividend even during economic recessions and crises, investors know its stock is a reliable investment. However, there's a special breed of dividend stocks that takes reliability, consistency and dependability to another level. The dividend aristocrats are a grou DC region apartments are among the smallest, and getting smaller 03/06/2023 01:08pm • Renters sacrifice space, and renters in the D.C. region sacrifice more of it, based on research just released on average apartment sizes by market. The new RentCafe report says the average size of a rental apartment in the D.C. region is 738 square feet. That's actually 9 square feet larger than Md. lawmakers push for new safety regulations after deadly Silver Spring apartment fire 03/04/2023 11:50am • Two weeks ago, a 25-year-old woman died in an apartment fire in Silver Spring, Maryland, and now the state���s lawmakers are hoping a new bill will make complexes safer. ���We want justice,��� Cesar Diaz told our news partners at NBC Washington. More Montgomery County News More Mary Self-Directed IRA: Know the Risks Before Investing 03/02/2023 07:00pm • For investors who like a hands-on, do-it-yourself approach, a self-directed individual retirement account may sound like a perfect investment vehicle. But in February 2023, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or FINRA, which oversees broker-dealers in the U.S., issued an alert about self-di Prince George���s Co. council votes to temporarily cap rent hikes at 3% 02/28/2023 08:18pm • There were a lot of emotions, among them frustration, as dozens of people showed up to implore the Prince George���s County Council in Maryland about how to vote on a bill described as ���rent stabilization��� by those who supported it and ���rent control��� by those who didn't. The legislation � 9 of the Best REITs to Buy Now 02/27/2023 07:00pm • The U.S. real estate investment trust, or REIT, sector was hit abnormally hard during the 2022 bear market. With dividends reinvested, the benchmark SPDR S&P 500 ETF (ticker: SPY) lost 18.2% last year. In comparison, the iShares Core US REIT ETF (USRT) fell 24.4%. The culprit? Rising interest ra Mortgage Rates Rebound to Nearly 7% 02/26/2023 07:00pm • The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage surged nearly a quarter-point to 6.96% this week, looming closer to the 7% benchmark that hasn't been reached since November. This marks the third consecutive week of significant mortgage rate increases, which have erased most of the downward progress mad How to Choose Good Tenants 02/26/2023 07:00pm • Starting a rental business, or growing one, means making a lot of important decisions. From which property makes sense financially to who will help you keep your properties maintained, you have a lot to consider. What some people tend to overlook is how important it is to carefully choose who will l Boise Housing Market Forecast 02/26/2023 07:00pm • Located near the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, Boise, Idaho consistently ranks highly among other metro areas for its quality of life and fast growth. Boise is a hub for many industries and a growing tech sector has helped boost the small city's economy. But like many areas of the U.S., the Bois Santos was questioned by Secret Service in 2017 credit card fraud probe 02/25/2023 04:02pm • When George Santos' Florida address was found in 2017 inside a rental car used by the suspect in an ATM skimming investigation, the United States Secret Service came knocking. Investigators from the agency located Santos in New York City, the future congressman's hometown, where they intervie Is No Credit Better Than Bad Credit? 02/23/2023 07:00pm • What's the difference between no credit and bad credit? No credit means you have no credit history, but bad credit means you've made some mistakes and are paying the price. You may not be able to get a credit card or loan -- and if you do, you may need a co-signer or to pay a sky-high interest rate. Average renter is now 'rent-burdened' nationwide 02/22/2023 09:34am • The average American is now rent burdened, spending at least 30% of their median income on housing, according to a recent report by Moody's Analytics. The financial services company said it's the first time the nation has reached that symbolic threshold in the more than 20 years it's been trackin Prince George's Co. police give out steering wheel locks to Kia, Hyundai owners 02/20/2023 02:50pm • A long line of vehicles snaked through a parking lot of a District Heights, Maryland, shopping center on Monday. They were there because Prince George's County police were giving away 150 steering wheel locks to people who owned Hyundais and Kias. The bright yellow locks, given to the departm Maryland lawmaker unveils bill requiring landlords to give notice when raising rents more than 4% 02/17/2023 03:00pm • A Maryland lawmaker has introduced a bill that would buy renters a little more time to make a decision before their rents go up. Del. Melissa Wells introduced HB 151 in the Maryland General Assembly last month, which would require a landlord to notify a tenant of rent increases of 4% or more with