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...Investors who buy houses at public auction can see a 25% to 35% return on their money - but with that comes the reality that the house is sold as is. That might very well mean that a family is still living there (get ready to start eviction proceedings), that there's a second mortgage no one bothered to mention, or that the house is in major disrepair (forget about arranging an inspection before an auction). "This isn't for novices," says Todd Beitler, co-author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buying Foreclosures. "There's a lot of research...
...Potter fans everywhere as the seventh book closed the series. Perhaps Rowling's fans feel the same sense of loss that I did at the end of the HBO series The Sopranos. For many fans of ended sitcoms and long-ago cancelled TV series, the end doesn't necessarily mean the end (depending on the level of your obsession). There are 316,983 fan fiction works based on Harry Potter alone on Fanfiction.net...
Does this mean we need more regulation? Maybe, maybe not. It does indicate, though, that the mortgage business might be due for a return to its roots...
...change in supply management has increased competition among suppliers and subcontractors, which will allow Boeing to speed up final assembly of the 787. The goal is three days, in contrast to 14 days for the 777. Boeing hopes to produce up to 16 aircraft a month, which would mean exceeding the 112 planned deliveries...
...facelessness as a dramatic device, a way of allowing players to place themselves in the game's leading role, to map their own faces onto that of a blank protagonist. "If he takes off the helmet, he should be you," says Marty O'Donnell, Halo 's audio director. "I mean, that's the big deal. Taking off the helmet is unacceptable." Engineering lead Chris Butcher agrees: "It's your experience. You have to be able to pour yourself into that icon." When nongamers look at the Master Chief's helmet, they see a forbidding, anonymous mask. But when gamers look...