Mortgagee Letter 2009-07 Raises Limits to $625,500
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development published Mortgagee Letter 2009-07, which officially raises the national limit for Home Equity Conversion Mortgages from $417,000 to $625,500 for the balance of 2009.
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Twitter? It’s What You Make It.
By DAVID POGUE
Original Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/technology/personaltech/12pogue.html?_r=1&goback=%2Ehom
Writing can be solitary work, but not when you write a tech column. Feedback pours in so quickly — by e-mail, on blogs, in online comments — that it’s almost real-time performance art.
For the longest time, my readers kept nagging me to check out this thing called Twitter. I’d been avoiding it, because it sounded like yet another one of those trendy Internet time drains. E-mail, blogs, chat, RSS, Facebook. … Who has time to tune in to yet another stream of Internet chatter?
True, there’s nothing quite like Twitter. It’s a Web site where you can broadcast very short messages — 140 characters, max — to anyone who’s signed up to receive them. It’s like a cross between a blog and a chat room. Your “followers” might include six friends from high school, or, if you’re Barack Obama, 254,484 of your most tech-savvy fans. (Incidentally, he hasn’t sent out a single Twitter message since taking office. Where are his priorities?)
Meanwhile, you sign up to receive the utterances of other people. Eventually, your screen fills with a scrolling display of their quips — jokes, recommended links, thoughts for the day, and a lot of “what I’m doing right now” stuff.
Even so, I was turned off by the whole ego thing. Your profile displays how many followers you have, as if it’s some kind of worthiness tally. (See also: Facebook friend counter.)
Then one day, I saw Twitter in action.
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Many more senior citizens became eligible to take advantage of the government’s reverse mortgage program this week as the loan limit was raised to $625,500 for the rest of 2009, from the former limit of $417,000. The temporary increase in the HUD Reverse Mortgage program is included in the Stimulus Bill, signed by President Barack Obama, according to the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA).
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Beautiful home! Great article today in the New York Times. Original link below-
Original Post: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/garden/19colorado.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&8dpc
February 19, 2009
A Colorado Home Is Ready for Its Owners’ Old Age
By JOYCE WADLER
LIVERMORE, Colo.
IF there were a glitzy, razzle-dazzle competition for cheerleading captain of the Aging in Place movement — and given the boomer resistance to anything to do with aging, there certainly should be — Cynthia Leibrock, designer, consultant and Harvard instructor, would be a contender, strutting down the barrier-free, skid-free runway of a well-lighted arena; tossing an easy-grip baton in the air; blinding the judges with a smile and that fascinatingly taut face.
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