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With energy costs high and no relief in sight, we figured it was time to make a list of some of the small things you can do to cut down on energy consumption.
Apparently, Nigerian con artists have taken to Craigslist in search of uneducated internet users who will unknowingly send their money(deposit) for an apartment rental that doesn’t even exist. Here’s how the scam works, you think you’re looking at a legitimate apartment ad. The images of the apartment, both inside and out, look great, the neighborhood is good and most importantly the price is right. Lots of times, these images are from a real location, a location the scam artist scoped out in advance, sometimes these fake apartment ads even contain a real address. People in search of an apartment drive by the address, decide they like the apartment and send their deposit in before ever seeing the inside of the rental property. This deposit they are sending in, is actually going to some scum bag in Nigeria who makes a living by ripping people off. The real owners of the apartment they think they just secured, they have no clue this took place. On top of all this, these con artists are having potential tenants fill out a credit application, which is turn opens up the possibility of credit fraud and identity theft.
The US Census bureau is reporting today that New Orleans, hard-hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, was the fastest-growing large city in the nation between July 1, 2006, and July 1, 2007. This follows the city having the largest rate of population loss since 2000.
It appears that no industry is safe from the economic downturn. According to Yahoo! Finance rents are down and vacancies are up across many metro areas. My question is, where are people living? Are lower end apartments seeing a decrease in vacancies?
After reading the horrible unemployment numbers that were released today, I started to wonder what states had the highest unemployment benefits. I found a recent AP article that listed the benefits per state, but it was not ajusted by cost of living. So I took the CPI for every state and ran it against the unemployment numbers. Here is what I got. Top 10 States
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