Month: July 2010

In-House Realty on a growth path as a Quicken affiliate

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While many businesses that build, sell or finance homes are still licking their wounds from the nation’s mortgage/housing meltdown — at least those that survived it — the insatiable Quicken Loans behemoth keeps growing. How? By gobbling up fees for services at virtually every stage of the home purchase and relocation process.

Watertown delegation support $2.3 million for fire services

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Supporters of the $2.3 million said that the cuts would hurt the ability to respond to dangerous hazardous material situations and to train recruits to become firefighters. They noted that the $2.3 million would come from an assessment on insurance companies and not from taxpayers’ pockets.

Money tip: Filing insurance claim may not pay off in long run

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Christine Moriarty, of Bristol, Vt., paid homeowners-insurance premiums for nearly a decade before she filed a claim. A lightning strike fried her laptop computer. Several years later, she filed a claim for a puff-back of her furnace that left four rooms soot-covered.

Motorists Risk Lives by Lacking Road Signs Knowledge

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MANCHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM–(Marketwire – 07/25/10) – Millions of motorists don’t know the meaning of everyday road signs according to research by Swinton, the UK’s leading high street retailer of car insurance . An online survey which asked 1,000 Swinton customers to identify the meaning of 8 different road signs found that just 41% of people were able to recognise a warning sign for a ‘level …