Word: neighborhood
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Apparently, some enterprising kid made several hundred of the signs last December and sold them for an extremely high price to neighborhood residents eager to show their support for the past president, who the liberal American media “just didn’t understand.” I should mention that these are largely the same individuals who put white crosses in their yards every spring bearing the phrase “He is Risen!” within clear view of the street, so it’s really no surprise that the “Welcome...
...little white yard signs are all over my neighborhood, where the former President and First Lady moved after the Obama inauguration this past January. And these poster-board rectangles with the former Bush campaign logo put to a new (and arguably more effective) use have an interesting story behind them, apocryphal...
...Motors, was in meltdown mode, begging the government for funding and trying to raise cash. One salable piece of its portfolio: 84 homesites in Hidden Springs. Jim Hunter, of Boise Hunter Homes, was there to buy. Hunter figures GMAC had already plowed about $88,000 per lot into the neighborhood by laying down streets and sewer lines. In the fire sale, he spent $52,000 a pop. And so the land was recycled - from an overextended national company to a more nimble local player able to put it to good economic use. It was, in its own small...
After 35 years in the mortgage industry, Tom Birch took a job as a housing counselor at Boise's Neighborhood Housing Services this past winter. He spends his days meeting with people who can no longer afford their mortgage payments. It has been tough going. More than most, Birch appreciates that mortgage companies were not prepared to handle the number of cases they have seen. He also understands, again probably more than most, that foreclosure is, in certain circumstances, the right outcome...
...late June, Teri, now 31, tearfully packed the last few things - dishes, plants - in her three-bedroom house in Star, a Boise exurb of a few thousand people. When the Lupos' 7-year-old daughter was asked by a neighborhood friend why her family didn't have enough money to pay for its house, she couldn't say. The answer: her father's income from selling cars kept dropping just as her mother's medical-transcription company started losing business to electronic record-keeping. Among the expenses cut from the family budget was health insurance...