US home building is surging, but job growth isn't The resurgent U.S. housing market has sent builders calling again for Richard Vap, who owns a drywall installation company. Vap would love to help - if he could hire enough qualified people. "There is a shortage of manpower," says Vap, owner of South Valley Drywall in Littleton, Colo. More
Wall Street betting billions on single-family homes in distressed markets Big investors are pouring unprecedented amounts of money into real estate hard hit by the housing crash, bringing those moribund markets back to life but raising the prospect of another Wall Street-fueled bubble that won’t be sustainable. More
Banks Revive Risky Loans and Mortgages Investments that were vulnerable in the last financial crisis and believed to be gone for good have largely escaped new rules that were made to prevent another crisis. More
Advantages and drawbacks of refinancing your home In a case where you wish to refinance your home, you’ll apply for a new bond on the same property based on its current value rather than its valuation at the time of purchase. 01/4/2025 - 9:06 pm | View Link
The 7 types of mortgage refinancing A refinancing replaces your existing mortgage with a new one while a second mortgage is taken out in addition to your original home loan. Home equity loans and HELOCs are common forms of second ... 12/23/2024 - 1:52 am | View Link
Despite it being the latest crazy, AI use in smartphones is still limited. For now, the option to remove unwanted objects from images is one of the most common and most appreciated. To see which solution does this better, I put Apple's Clean Up feature on iPhone against Google's Magic Editor.
Night Light on Windows 11 is a handy feature if you often use your computer at night, but it's not the best implementation of this function. I use the free f.lux instead of Night Light on Windows 11; here's why.
Dear Eric: Friends of ours, who live on the other side of the country, have a daughter who is a senior in college in the same town we live in. It’s not uncommon for the daughter to spend holidays like Thanksgiving, or the occasional weekend, with us.
Occasionally, she brings her boyfriend, whose company we also enjoy.
I love Goodreads. It’s always fun looking back across the year and remembering the best things I’ve read in the past 12 months. Goodreads’ Reading Challenge encourages me further, and in 2024, I smashed my goal. Here’s how.
Clean Up is a Photos app tool in iOS 18 that enables you to remove undesired objects from photos. However, it sometimes exhibits an odd behavior and pixelates faces instead of deleting them. You can leverage this to hide people's identities in photos.
Wireless connectivity is great, but despite pushing for wireless tech as hard as I could in my workflows, I can't stay in the wireless charging camp. I've tried wireless charging for a year, and I'm sticking with my cables.