Ron Peltier, CEO of Warren Buffet’s real estate company Home Services of America, the second largest real estate company in the country and owner of Atlanta’s premier real estate firms, Harry Norman, Realtors and Jenny Pruitt and Associates, indicated during a guest host appearance on CNBC’s Squawk Box that we (the US) are in a “bifurcated housing market.” He went on to say there is the “primary market, consisting of the typical discretionary sellers moving from one home to another and the distressed market.”

Where did all the money go? Fannie Mae lost $2.3 billion in the last three months, and its cousin Freddie Mac lost nearly $1 billion, bringing its one-year total loss to nearly $5 billion.

Buried in the new Housing Bill (The Housing and Economic Recovery Act) is some very good news for seniors whose main asset is the family home. The new law makes it easier and less expensive for seniors to access the cash value of their homes on a tax-free basis through a Reverse Mortgage. And it expands the amount that can be borrowed.

Vincent Van Gogh once said, “The only time I feel alive is when I am painting.” If the experts at CertaPro have feelings similar to Van Gogh’s, then they probably feel alive all the time as CertaPro is a company that specializes in interior and exterior house painting...

These days, eating a home cooked meal at the dinner table seems more like a myth than a reality. Mom does not have time to whip up meatloaf or homemade biscuits. She is off shuttling her son to baseball practice, her daughter to soccer practice and trying desperately to put the little one down for a nap. Seriously, who has time to make a meal from scratch?

Don't buy U.S. Savings Bonds. For years, I used to promote the benefits of U.S. Savings Bonds, reminding readers that even people with small amounts of money could easily and automatically start a regular savings program – and get current market rates of return. In other words, Savings Bonds were a good deal.

Learning a second language as an adult is daunting and difficult. It is a proven fact that children learn a new language much easier than adults. At the age of 30, Abigail Vaillant learned French after she married her French-speaking husband. She moved to Guadeloupe, where French is the national language, from Zimbabwe, and she had to adapt fast. For Vaillant, acquiring a new language meant opening her eyes to a whole new world.

Lauck Motors has always been something of a visionary in its industry. It opened as a repair shop exclusively for Mercedes vehicles at a time when Roswell was not the land of the well-to-do that it is today.

In the next few weeks, the millions of Americans who have been investing their retirement funds in the stock market through their 401(k) plans or Individual Retirement Accounts (IRA) are going to open their second-quarter statements and be shocked by the losses in their retirement nest eggs.

To the people who frequent the place, it’s known simply as the “the Merchant.” For those who understand the verbal shorthand, the name evokes visions of middle-aged men basking in a communal shower of smoke and bonding over one of the most basic, yet complex, leisure items known to man – the cigar.