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Maintaining Good Credit While Purchasing a New Chicago Home
You’re buying a Chicago new home, and you’re far enough along in the process to have your loan application approved. In a recent post on the Equifax Personal Finance Blog, real estate expert Ilyce Glink reminds us that now is not the time to party. You need to do everything you can to protect your [...]
Collegians: Pay Your Rent or Answer to WilliamPaid
When I was in college, I lived with three girls. Three of us paid our rent on time. Not the fourth. It became an uncomfortable monthly struggle with the fourth, which culminated in the end of the friendship between us three and that fourth.
Leave it to technology to find a fix for that.
WilliamPaid, an online [...]
Check Illinois Lost and Found for Property Owed You
Need some money? Want some property? There might be some waiting for you to claim.
The state of Illinois is holding more than $1.4 billion in cash and property that actually belongs to many of its residents.
In fact, there is a one-in-five chance that some of it is yours.
It can be anything from an overpaid bill [...]
Gerstad Builders Helps You Save ON Your Home and AT Home
Gerstad Builders is always ready to help you save on your McHenry County new home, but sometimes, people need help saving money while they’re preparing to buy a new home or after they’ve just moved. Actually, these days, most of us find ourselves needing to save money at home whether we’re in the homebuying market [...]
Chicago: Stop Letting the Bedbugs Bite!
Here’s a list we should be happy we don’t top: The pest control company Terminix on Tuesday released a list of the 15 most bedbug-infested cities in the country.
New York is No. 1 on the list.
Chicago is No. 5.
Ewww.
According to Terminix, the 2010 most bedbug-infested cities are:
1. New York
2. Philadelphia
3. Detroit
4. Cincinnati
5. Chicago
6. Denver
7. Columbus, [...]
